what we mean than direct statement as it paints a picture in words. In the specific sense, figurative language may take the form of figures of speech.
In writing poetry, every author has their own characteristic or signature to show their works, as we know Robert Frost is known with his romantic works,
Emily Dickinson known with her death poem and etc., in lyric poetry author also has signature. Nowadays we can see Katy Perry, as a popular singer and also song
writer. Almost all of her song became “Top Forty” hits in the music chart. Her works have style; she always uses figurative language to tell the story or message
of the lyric. We can see from her work; Hummingbird Heartbeat, Peacock, Firework, Pearl, Dark Horse
and much more. As reflected from the example of Katy Perry’s songs title we can see that she always uses figurative language in
lyric writing. In Hummingbird Heartbeat and Peacock lyric we can see eroticism that
can be understood word by word between the figurative languages. In the two lyric, eroticism reflected through figurative language. In Hummingbird Heartbeat
lyric we can see a story about a woman lust to a man who have love relationship story, it describes sexual activities using figurative languages to make the lyric
sexual description aesthetically hidden. In Peacock lyric the speaker tells the
readers about her innuendo fantasy to see a man’s genitals. She guesses the shape of the man’s genitals in the story. She tries to ask the man to show her several
times. In the lyric the speaker uses figurative languages, it make the sexual description aesthetically hidden.
To fully appreciate the details of the story in lyric
we need to use figurative language theory, after we found it in lyric we can continue to see how eroticism described in the lyric with the concept of eroticism.
Katy Perry is not the only artist who put sexual content in the lyric. There are number of artists’ put some sexual content in their lyric; but much of them not
using the rule of eroticism in writing in their lyric, i.e. Gorilla by Bruno Mars, Push Up On Me
by Rihanna, Move Like Jagger by Maroon 5, and much more, but Katy Perry’s lyric differ with those lyric mentioned, she append sexual content in
lyric but with the rule of eroticism. From the explanation above, the writer thinks that it is necessary to
analyze Katy Perry’s song lyric Hummingbird Heartbeat and Peacock based on figurative language theory, and describe the eroticism that covered by figurative
languages that can be found on the lyric to make the reader fully understand about eroticism and also understand the distinction between eroticism and
pornography.
B. Focus of the Study
The focus of this research will be on analyzing Katy Perry’s song lyrics Hummingbird Heartbeat
and Peacock written by Katy Perry both taken from Teenage Dream album.
C. Research Question
Based on the background and the focus of the study above, the research
would like to analyze “Eroticism in Katy Perry’s Song Lyric Hummingbird Heartbeat and Peacock through Figurative Language”
Therefore, the writer is going to propose the question as follows:
1. What kinds of figurative language exists in the two Katy Perry’s song lyric
Hummingbird Heartbeat and Peacock?
2. How do the figurative languages reflect eroticism?
D. Significance of the Research
Authors usually use figurative languages to make their works more beautiful. In writing literary works, especially dealing with eroticism authors has
their own way to deliver the ideas to the reader. Through this research, the writer hopes can develop our knowledge and understanding about song lyric meaning
especially dealing with figurative language using the theory of figurative language and the concept of eroticism.
E. Research Methodology
The research methodology consists of several important elements namely the objective of research, the method of research, the instrument of research, data
analysis, and the unit of analysis. 1.
The Objective of Research
The aim of the research is to know the figurative language and the meaning of Katy Perry’s song lyric Hummingbird Heartbeat and Peacock also
describing how eroticism described in the lyric.
2. The Method of Research
The method that is used in this research is qualitative descriptive. Qualitative descriptive does not need statistic analysis and has to analyze
based on the methods, theories or relevant approaches.
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Qualitative method is
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able to give the detail of complexity about phenomena that is hard to be revealed by quantitative method.
3. The Instrument of Research
The writer is the instrument of this study. Reading, analyzing, and paying attention in the lyric carefully is the writer’s way to get the information and
explanation about what the figurative language and its meaning of the lyric.
4. The Technique of Data Analysis
In this research, the writer uses qualitative technique by giving explanation about data in Katy Perry song lyric Hummingbird Heartbeat and Peacock. To
get the information about figurative language, reading the lyric is the first step, and then paying attention, understanding, and underlining every line in the
lyric that has figurative language and implemented concept of eroticism.
5. Unit of the Analysis
The unit analysis of this research is lyrics of an American singer, songwriter and musician Katy Perry; a single hit song Hummingbird
Heartbeat and a non-single song Peacock; they are written by Katy Perry
taken from Teenage Dream album released on 2010 which is has sold more than six million copies worldwide and earned seven Grammy Award for the
album and the songs.
F. Time and Place
The research begins in 2014 at English Letters Department UIN Jakarta, library of Adab and Humanities Faculty, main library of UIN Jakarta, and any
other place where related one.
