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.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Previous Research
The writer has read various related research before this research began. Figurative language aplenty used by Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic
University students in their research, however when this research implemented none of them discuss about eroticism, the writer also attempt to find related
research by doing library research in another university library. The writer found at least three researches related to this research.
The first research is the analysis of women portrayal in Katy Perry’s selected song lyrics; Fingerprints, Hot n Cold, I Kissed a Girl, If You Can
Afford Me, I’m Still Breathing, Lost, Mannequin, One of the Boys, Self Inflicted, and Thinking of You. Amelia Lisara’s 2013 aims in this research is to know the
portrayal of women in the selected song lyrics and attempts to reveal gendered messages in Katy Perry’s selected song lyrics as viewed in post feminism
perspectives. This research uses qualitative descriptive method; the discussion of the present study is framed within gender studies and theory of post feminism.
The result of the research shows that most of women in One of the Boys album 2008 are portrayed women’s physical appearance, women as sexual subject,
women’s passive behavior, and women’s attitudes to cover their dependency on men. These portrayals support patriarchal ideology in which women are in
accordance with patriarchal society’s expectation. The present study also 7
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