TABOO WORDS IN POP, ROCK, AND HIP HOP SONGS.
TABOO WORDS IN POP, ROCK, AND HIP HOP SONGS
A THESIS
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
RISKA JULI RAHMAYANTI
Registration Number : 2113220034
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ART
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2016
ABSTRACT
Rahmayanti, Riska Juli, 2113220034. Taboo Words in Pop, Rock, and Hip
Hop Songs. A Thesis, English, Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts,
State University of Medan, 2016.
The study deals with the Taboo words uttered by the singer of pop, rock, and hip
hop songs. The objective of this study was to identify the kinds and the reason of
taboo words used by the songs in pop, rock, and hip hop genres. The source of the
data waslyrics of three lates album in recent five years (2010-2015) which lead
three genres; Miley Cyrus for pop, Linkin Park for rock, and Nicki Minaj for hip
hop. Each of singers brought five songs as the data. The data were collected by
selecting lyrics containing taboo words after listening the song and matching the
lyrics from internet carefully. The results of this study were four kinds of taboo
words; offensive slang, profanity, sexual referent, and scatological referent
occured in the songs and the most dominant kinds of taboo word appeared was
offensive slang.
Keywords : Taboo Words, Kinds of Taboo Words, Three Popular Genres
i
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Great thanks and praise to the Almighty Allah SWT who has blessed and
given the ability to the write to complete her thesis as the partial fulfillment of the
requirements for degree of Sarjana Sastra at the English Department, Faculty of
Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and the
help of several individuals who always contributed and extended their valuable
assistances in the preparation and completion of this thesis. The writer’s special
appreciation goes to:
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd.,the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum.,the Dean Faculty of Language and Arts,
State University of Medan.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd.,the Head of English and Literature
Department, Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English Department and
her Thesis Examiner, and Syamsul Bahri, S.S, M.Hum., the Head of
English Non-Educational Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State
University of Medan and her Thesis Advisor.
Prof. Amrin Saragih, M.A, Ph.D as her Shesis supervisor.
Prof. Dr. Berlin Sibarani, M.Pd., Johannes Jefria Gultom, S.Pd,
M.Hum. as her Thesis Examiners.
All the lecturers in Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of
Medan for teaching and sharing their knowledge
ii
Eis Sri Wahyuningsih, M.Pd., as theAdministration Staff of English
Department for helping the writer in preparing all the fulfillment in
conducting this thesis.
Beloved parents, Drs. Azmi Jatim and Hastati B.A for the patience,
affection, prayer, financial support and taught the writer many worth things
in facing the life. Thanks also given to her sisters Richie Andriani and
Nova Rahmawati
All her beloved friends in English Literature A and B 2011 and other
faculty, especially for Nezayana Febriani, Fajri Januardi, Rizka
Zulhaini, Junita Rahmawati, Tri Buana, Marina Lestari, Yossi Annisa,
Swidanty Annisa, Eka Prastia, Sri Handayani Putri and others that
cannot be mentioned all. Thanksfor their support, kindness, great love and
care to the writer, also warm hearted encouragement friendship in finishing
this thesis to the writer.
The people who direct or indirectly contributed in this study, your kindness
means a lot to her.
Medan, Maret 2016
The writer,
Riska Juli Rahmayanti
iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pages
ABSTRACT ................................................................................................
i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..........................................................................
ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................
iv
LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................
vi
CHAPTER IINTRODUCTION .................................................................
1
A. The Background of Study .....................................................................
1
B. The Problem of Study ...................................................................
2
C. The Objective of Study..................................................................
3
D. The Scope of Study .......................................................................
3
E. The Significance of Study .............................................................
3
CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF LITERATURE ..............................................
5
A. Theoritical Framework ..........................................................................
5
1. Linguistics ...........................................................................................
5
2. Socilolinguistics ........................................................................
6
3. Taboo .......................................................................................
7
a. The Cause ofTaboo Words....................................................
8
b. Kinds of Taboo WordS .........................................................
10
c. Function of Taboo Words…………………………………....
12
4. Linguistics Characteristics In Song Lyrics .................................
13
5. Pop Song...................................................................................
15
a. Miley Cyrus’s Biography ........................................................
17
6. Rock Song ................................................................................
18
a. Linkin Park’s Biography .........................................................
20
7. Hip Hop Song...............................................................................
21
a. Nicki Minaj’s Biography .........................................................
23
B. Relevant Studies...............................................................................
24
C. Conceptual Framework ....................................................................
24
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .....................................
26
A. Research Design .....................................................................................
26
iv
B. Source of Data ........................................................................................
26
C. The Technique for Collecting Data................................................
27
D. The Technique of Analyzing Data .................................................
27
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS ............................................................
29
A. The Data .....................................................................................................
29
1. Taboo Words in Pop Songs..................................................................
29
2. Taboo words in Rock songs .................................................................
32
3. Taboo words in Hip Hop Songs ...........................................................
33
B. The Data Nalysis ......................................................................................
37
C. Research Findings ..........................................................................
38
D. Discussion .........................................................................................
39
CHAPTER VCONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ................................
42
A. Conclusion ..................................................................................................
42
B. Suggestion ..................................................................................................
42
REFERENCES............................................................................................
43
APPENDIX …………………………………………………………………
45
v
v
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1 Taboo Words of Offensive Slang ...............................................
11
Table 2.2 Taboo words of Profanity............................................................
11
Table 2.3 Table of Sexual Referent.............................................................
12
Table 2.4 Taboo Words of Scatological Regferent ......................................
12
Table 3.1 Categories of Songs ....................................................................
27
Table 3.2 Kinds of Taboo Words ................................................................
28
Table 4.1 Data of Offensive Slang in Pop Songs.........................................
29
Table 4.2 Data of Profanity in Pop Songs ...................................................
30
Table 4.3 Data of Sexual Referent in Pop Songs .........................................
30
Table 4.4 Data of Scatological Referent in Pop Songs ................................
31
Table 4.5 Data of Offensive Slang in Rock Songs.......................................
32
Table 4.6 Data of Offensive Slang in Hip Hop Songs .................................
34
Table 4.7 Data of Profanity in Hip Hop Songs ............................................
35
Table 4.8 Data of Sexual Referent in Hip Hop Songs..................................
35
Table 4.9 Data of Scatological Referent in Hip Hop Songs .........................
36
Table 4.10 Total Number in Three Genres....................................................
37
Table 4.11 Percentage the Kinds of Taboo words .........................................
38
vi
LIST OF APPENDIX
Appendix of Pop Songs ................................................................................ 45
Appendix of Rock Songs .............................................................................. 54
Appendix of Hip Hop Songs ......................................................................... 59
vii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of The Study
Most of the people in the world love music, from kids to adult. Music is
one of the favorite entertainment for people, especially for young people like
teenagers. By listening the music, it can influence the emotion of people, happy,
sad, angry, free, or relax.
Many people spend their time to listen the music through electronic media
such as mobile phone, MP3 player, television, tablets, or digital video disc
(DVD). Music also is needed in many aspect of life such as in wedding party,
birthday party, also in religious relationship.
Every song has lyrics that help listener to get the message or to know what
the song is talking about. Lyrics related to the language. Language is always
changed during the time, because the development of language is smooth. There
will influence a language to the society then the progress of society will influence
the language itself. The language has the flexible character to receive from the
society which related to sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics is study the relationship
between language and society (Holmes, 2001: 1). But unfortunately, there are
songs insert taboo words in the lyrics. Taboo words is proscription of behavior
that affects everyday life (Allan and Burridge, 2006: 1).Now days, taboo words is
like universal language in this globalization era, the used of taboo words had been
trade-mark of somebody to convey his emotional feeling. It is showed by many
lyrics that contain of taboo words itself.
1
2
Song actually has many genres. Three most popular of genres song are
Pop, Rock, and Hip Hop. Many singer who concern with that genres. This genres
has been consuming for much society. But some of the singers use taboo words in
their song freely. People especially teenagers accept it as a trend in this present
time and effect has included the children. Some of them know about the meaning
but they still sing it, others do not know the meaning and sing it loudly, that’s why
the writer choose this title, because the three genres which most popular for
listeners contain the taboo words in the some of songs reflect moral value to us.
The moral value in the songs relevance to the behavior, ethics, and also language
which using in daily activities, when people do interaction each other. This study
will help the readers and listeners to know everything relate to taboo words in this
time.
The previous research that related to taboo word, were : Sitorus, R. 2009.
Taboo Words in Snoop Dogg’s Songs. Universitas Negeri Medan, Ekstrom, A.
2010. Taboo Language on the Internet. Kristianstad University, and Naini, A.
2013. Taboo Expression Used in Lived Free or Die Hard 4 Movie. Journal STK
Ilmu Pendidikan Persatuan Guru Indonesia.
B. The Problem Of The Study
In relation to the background of the problem were formulated as the
following :
(1) What kinds of taboo words were used in the pop, rock, and hip hop songs ?
3
(2) What was the dominant kinds of taboo words in the pop, rock, and hip hop
songs ?
C. The Objective of the Study
In line with the problems, the objective of the study were :
(1) to describe the kinds of taboo words in the pop, rock, and hip hop songs
(2) to derive the dominant kind of taboo words in the pop, rock, and hip hop
songs
D. The Scope of The Study
The study was related to sociolinguistics which focused on taboo word. It
was limited to find out kinds of taboo word in three popular genres of the song
lyrics which were pop, rock, and hip hop.
E. The Significance of The Study
Findings of the study were expected to offer the theoretically and practical
significance.
(1) Theoretically, the findings add up more horizons to theories of
sociolinguistics, particularly the use of taboo words. In addition, the
findings can be influenced for further studies.
4
(2) Practically, the findings can be useful for listener in appreciating the
songs, the findings can be useful also for students, lecturers, and future
researchers to know more about taboo word and people who interest with.
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
After analyzing the data, conclusion were drawn the following.
1. Four kinds of taboo words were applied in the song lyrics of two genres
which pop, and hip hop songs. They were (1) offensive slang, (2) profanity,
(3) sexual referent, and (4) scatological referent. Rock song had only one
kind of taboo words was offensive slang. The total numbers of all taboo
words in three genres were 201 words wherefor pop songs were 33, for rock
songs were 14 and for taboo in hip hop songs were 154.
2. The most dominant kind of taboo words used in three genres was offensive
slang.
B. Suggestion
In relation to the conclution, suggestion were staged as the following.
1. The students who learnt in linguistics and students who interested with this
study should now understand about the kinds of taboo words and
differentiate `the four kinds of taboo words till this knowledge can be useful
for students who wanted doing research deeper about taboo words.
2. The listeners who loved singing and listening the songs especially the song
which explained in this thesis toshould not sing publicly in appreciating the
song so that decreased using of taboo words till made the language as the
trend for the young people.
42
43
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A THESIS
Submitted as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
For the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
RISKA JULI RAHMAYANTI
Registration Number : 2113220034
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND ART
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN
2016
ABSTRACT
Rahmayanti, Riska Juli, 2113220034. Taboo Words in Pop, Rock, and Hip
Hop Songs. A Thesis, English, Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts,
State University of Medan, 2016.
The study deals with the Taboo words uttered by the singer of pop, rock, and hip
hop songs. The objective of this study was to identify the kinds and the reason of
taboo words used by the songs in pop, rock, and hip hop genres. The source of the
data waslyrics of three lates album in recent five years (2010-2015) which lead
three genres; Miley Cyrus for pop, Linkin Park for rock, and Nicki Minaj for hip
hop. Each of singers brought five songs as the data. The data were collected by
selecting lyrics containing taboo words after listening the song and matching the
lyrics from internet carefully. The results of this study were four kinds of taboo
words; offensive slang, profanity, sexual referent, and scatological referent
occured in the songs and the most dominant kinds of taboo word appeared was
offensive slang.
Keywords : Taboo Words, Kinds of Taboo Words, Three Popular Genres
i
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Great thanks and praise to the Almighty Allah SWT who has blessed and
given the ability to the write to complete her thesis as the partial fulfillment of the
requirements for degree of Sarjana Sastra at the English Department, Faculty of
Languages and Arts, State University of Medan.
This thesis would not have been possible without the guidance and the
help of several individuals who always contributed and extended their valuable
assistances in the preparation and completion of this thesis. The writer’s special
appreciation goes to:
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd.,the Rector of State University of Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum.,the Dean Faculty of Language and Arts,
State University of Medan.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd.,the Head of English and Literature
Department, Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English Department and
her Thesis Examiner, and Syamsul Bahri, S.S, M.Hum., the Head of
English Non-Educational Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State
University of Medan and her Thesis Advisor.
Prof. Amrin Saragih, M.A, Ph.D as her Shesis supervisor.
Prof. Dr. Berlin Sibarani, M.Pd., Johannes Jefria Gultom, S.Pd,
M.Hum. as her Thesis Examiners.
All the lecturers in Faculty of Language and Arts, State University of
Medan for teaching and sharing their knowledge
ii
Eis Sri Wahyuningsih, M.Pd., as theAdministration Staff of English
Department for helping the writer in preparing all the fulfillment in
conducting this thesis.
Beloved parents, Drs. Azmi Jatim and Hastati B.A for the patience,
affection, prayer, financial support and taught the writer many worth things
in facing the life. Thanks also given to her sisters Richie Andriani and
Nova Rahmawati
All her beloved friends in English Literature A and B 2011 and other
faculty, especially for Nezayana Febriani, Fajri Januardi, Rizka
Zulhaini, Junita Rahmawati, Tri Buana, Marina Lestari, Yossi Annisa,
Swidanty Annisa, Eka Prastia, Sri Handayani Putri and others that
cannot be mentioned all. Thanksfor their support, kindness, great love and
care to the writer, also warm hearted encouragement friendship in finishing
this thesis to the writer.
The people who direct or indirectly contributed in this study, your kindness
means a lot to her.
Medan, Maret 2016
The writer,
Riska Juli Rahmayanti
iii
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pages
ABSTRACT ................................................................................................
i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ..........................................................................
ii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................
iv
LIST OF TABLES ......................................................................................
vi
CHAPTER IINTRODUCTION .................................................................
1
A. The Background of Study .....................................................................
1
B. The Problem of Study ...................................................................
2
C. The Objective of Study..................................................................
3
D. The Scope of Study .......................................................................
3
E. The Significance of Study .............................................................
3
CHAPTER IIREVIEW OF LITERATURE ..............................................
5
A. Theoritical Framework ..........................................................................
5
1. Linguistics ...........................................................................................
5
2. Socilolinguistics ........................................................................
6
3. Taboo .......................................................................................
7
a. The Cause ofTaboo Words....................................................
8
b. Kinds of Taboo WordS .........................................................
10
c. Function of Taboo Words…………………………………....
12
4. Linguistics Characteristics In Song Lyrics .................................
13
5. Pop Song...................................................................................
15
a. Miley Cyrus’s Biography ........................................................
17
6. Rock Song ................................................................................
18
a. Linkin Park’s Biography .........................................................
20
7. Hip Hop Song...............................................................................
21
a. Nicki Minaj’s Biography .........................................................
23
B. Relevant Studies...............................................................................
24
C. Conceptual Framework ....................................................................
24
CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .....................................
26
A. Research Design .....................................................................................
26
iv
B. Source of Data ........................................................................................
26
C. The Technique for Collecting Data................................................
27
D. The Technique of Analyzing Data .................................................
27
CHAPTER IV DATA ANALYSIS ............................................................
29
A. The Data .....................................................................................................
29
1. Taboo Words in Pop Songs..................................................................
29
2. Taboo words in Rock songs .................................................................
32
3. Taboo words in Hip Hop Songs ...........................................................
33
B. The Data Nalysis ......................................................................................
37
C. Research Findings ..........................................................................
38
D. Discussion .........................................................................................
39
CHAPTER VCONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ................................
42
A. Conclusion ..................................................................................................
42
B. Suggestion ..................................................................................................
42
REFERENCES............................................................................................
43
APPENDIX …………………………………………………………………
45
v
v
LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1 Taboo Words of Offensive Slang ...............................................
11
Table 2.2 Taboo words of Profanity............................................................
11
Table 2.3 Table of Sexual Referent.............................................................
12
Table 2.4 Taboo Words of Scatological Regferent ......................................
12
Table 3.1 Categories of Songs ....................................................................
27
Table 3.2 Kinds of Taboo Words ................................................................
28
Table 4.1 Data of Offensive Slang in Pop Songs.........................................
29
Table 4.2 Data of Profanity in Pop Songs ...................................................
30
Table 4.3 Data of Sexual Referent in Pop Songs .........................................
30
Table 4.4 Data of Scatological Referent in Pop Songs ................................
31
Table 4.5 Data of Offensive Slang in Rock Songs.......................................
32
Table 4.6 Data of Offensive Slang in Hip Hop Songs .................................
34
Table 4.7 Data of Profanity in Hip Hop Songs ............................................
35
Table 4.8 Data of Sexual Referent in Hip Hop Songs..................................
35
Table 4.9 Data of Scatological Referent in Hip Hop Songs .........................
36
Table 4.10 Total Number in Three Genres....................................................
37
Table 4.11 Percentage the Kinds of Taboo words .........................................
38
vi
LIST OF APPENDIX
Appendix of Pop Songs ................................................................................ 45
Appendix of Rock Songs .............................................................................. 54
Appendix of Hip Hop Songs ......................................................................... 59
vii
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
A. The Background of The Study
Most of the people in the world love music, from kids to adult. Music is
one of the favorite entertainment for people, especially for young people like
teenagers. By listening the music, it can influence the emotion of people, happy,
sad, angry, free, or relax.
Many people spend their time to listen the music through electronic media
such as mobile phone, MP3 player, television, tablets, or digital video disc
(DVD). Music also is needed in many aspect of life such as in wedding party,
birthday party, also in religious relationship.
Every song has lyrics that help listener to get the message or to know what
the song is talking about. Lyrics related to the language. Language is always
changed during the time, because the development of language is smooth. There
will influence a language to the society then the progress of society will influence
the language itself. The language has the flexible character to receive from the
society which related to sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics is study the relationship
between language and society (Holmes, 2001: 1). But unfortunately, there are
songs insert taboo words in the lyrics. Taboo words is proscription of behavior
that affects everyday life (Allan and Burridge, 2006: 1).Now days, taboo words is
like universal language in this globalization era, the used of taboo words had been
trade-mark of somebody to convey his emotional feeling. It is showed by many
lyrics that contain of taboo words itself.
1
2
Song actually has many genres. Three most popular of genres song are
Pop, Rock, and Hip Hop. Many singer who concern with that genres. This genres
has been consuming for much society. But some of the singers use taboo words in
their song freely. People especially teenagers accept it as a trend in this present
time and effect has included the children. Some of them know about the meaning
but they still sing it, others do not know the meaning and sing it loudly, that’s why
the writer choose this title, because the three genres which most popular for
listeners contain the taboo words in the some of songs reflect moral value to us.
The moral value in the songs relevance to the behavior, ethics, and also language
which using in daily activities, when people do interaction each other. This study
will help the readers and listeners to know everything relate to taboo words in this
time.
The previous research that related to taboo word, were : Sitorus, R. 2009.
Taboo Words in Snoop Dogg’s Songs. Universitas Negeri Medan, Ekstrom, A.
2010. Taboo Language on the Internet. Kristianstad University, and Naini, A.
2013. Taboo Expression Used in Lived Free or Die Hard 4 Movie. Journal STK
Ilmu Pendidikan Persatuan Guru Indonesia.
B. The Problem Of The Study
In relation to the background of the problem were formulated as the
following :
(1) What kinds of taboo words were used in the pop, rock, and hip hop songs ?
3
(2) What was the dominant kinds of taboo words in the pop, rock, and hip hop
songs ?
C. The Objective of the Study
In line with the problems, the objective of the study were :
(1) to describe the kinds of taboo words in the pop, rock, and hip hop songs
(2) to derive the dominant kind of taboo words in the pop, rock, and hip hop
songs
D. The Scope of The Study
The study was related to sociolinguistics which focused on taboo word. It
was limited to find out kinds of taboo word in three popular genres of the song
lyrics which were pop, rock, and hip hop.
E. The Significance of The Study
Findings of the study were expected to offer the theoretically and practical
significance.
(1) Theoretically, the findings add up more horizons to theories of
sociolinguistics, particularly the use of taboo words. In addition, the
findings can be influenced for further studies.
4
(2) Practically, the findings can be useful for listener in appreciating the
songs, the findings can be useful also for students, lecturers, and future
researchers to know more about taboo word and people who interest with.
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
After analyzing the data, conclusion were drawn the following.
1. Four kinds of taboo words were applied in the song lyrics of two genres
which pop, and hip hop songs. They were (1) offensive slang, (2) profanity,
(3) sexual referent, and (4) scatological referent. Rock song had only one
kind of taboo words was offensive slang. The total numbers of all taboo
words in three genres were 201 words wherefor pop songs were 33, for rock
songs were 14 and for taboo in hip hop songs were 154.
2. The most dominant kind of taboo words used in three genres was offensive
slang.
B. Suggestion
In relation to the conclution, suggestion were staged as the following.
1. The students who learnt in linguistics and students who interested with this
study should now understand about the kinds of taboo words and
differentiate `the four kinds of taboo words till this knowledge can be useful
for students who wanted doing research deeper about taboo words.
2. The listeners who loved singing and listening the songs especially the song
which explained in this thesis toshould not sing publicly in appreciating the
song so that decreased using of taboo words till made the language as the
trend for the young people.
42
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