FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN BRUNO MARS’ SONG LYRICS: “It Will Rain”, “Talking to The Moon”, and “Grenade” Merisya Yulia Putri, Syayid Sandi Sukandi, Rani Autila Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris STKIP PGRI Sumatera Barat [email protected] ABSTRAK Penelitian ini dilatar belakangi oleh pentingnya untuk mengetahui jenis- jenis penggunaan majas dalam lagu Bruno Mars dengan judul (It will Rain, Talking to The Moon, dan Grenade). Berdasarkan penggunaan majas dalam lagu Bruno Mars dengan judul tersebut, maka peneliti mengetahui jenis-jenis majas dalam lagu Bruno Mars. Majas memiliki beberapa tipe seperti: Simile, Metapora, Metonim,Hiperbola, Ironi, Sinekdok, Paradok, Personifikasi dan lain sebagainya. Namun dalam penelitian ini peneliti hanya fokus pada penggunaan Simile, Metapor,Personifikasi, Hiberbola, dan Ironi berdasarkan tipe-tipe yang diungkapkan oleh pendapat beberapa para ahli. Data penelitian ini berupa dokumen dari tiga lagu Bruno Mars yang berjudul (It will Rain, Talking to The Moon, dan Grenade). Dalam penelitian ini peneliti menggunakan analisis dokumen sebagai metode dan teknik analisis data. Dari hasil penelitian, peneliti menemukan ada1 simile, 4 metapora, 4 personifikasi, 9 hiperbola, and 5 ironi.Masing-masing tipe ini memiliki arti tertentu berdasarkan konteks yang ada didalam lirik-lirik lagu Bruno Mars. Peneliti telah melakukan analisa terhadap tiap-tiap tipe dari figurative language tersebut. Kata kunci : Majas Bahasa INTRODUCTION language is thought related to one Many literary works that aspect of what gives a text in involves figurative language to make expressing the idea in particular his work more lively and interesting. language and a poetic text-special A figurative language is as a way to esthetic value. It means that pour the author idea of creative ideas figurative language express of idea, that could evoke the imagination, opinion, or author’s thinking which develop their thoughts, feelings and is consist of syntax, that consist of raises its own sensation for reader and words, clause to pass certain listener. According to Dancygier and condition and situations. Sweetser (2014:1) say that figurative The song or music is defined as the lyric as a contain purposes of work that is intact even though feeling from songwriter to lyric composed of elements of melody, written. In the lyric ,it can be knows poetry or lyrics, and arrangements the purpose of the singer to sing the including notation. According song.Sometimes unwittingly, a toBruscia in Grocke and Wigram beautiful tone music and sung by (2007:158) song is (music) popular singer favored by listeners, communication and song (lyric) both among children, teenagers, to discussion as similar, and both are adults even without them ignore the presented here purposes of clarifying real meaning contained in the song. the subtle differences”. Bruno mars is a singer and song The meaning is that the whole writer. Some of the popular Bruno song or music is an integral part of Mars songs are "Just the way you the work. According to Leech are", "It will rain ", “The lazy song”, (2014:8)state that meaning as a “Grenade”, “Lock out of Heaven”, linguistic phenomenon in it’s own “Talking to the Moon”, right, not as something ‘outside “Billionaire”, “Marry You”,“ language’. This means we investigate Vercase on The floor” and “When I what it is ‘know a language’ was Your Man”. There are many semantically, e.g. to know what is types of figurative language such as involved in recognizing relations of methapor, hyperbole and simile, meaning between sentences, and in personification, symbols, alliteration, recognizing which sentences are irony and ect. meaningful and which are not. RESEARCH METHOD Stacy (2011:17) notes that the lyrics of song are equally important This research is a qualitative establishing meaning and research. However, the researcher communicating feeling because lyrics also uses quantitative approach in are written form the character’s point processing the data. Vanderstoep and of view and so offer an intimate Johnston (2009:7) state that window into character. It means that qualitative research produces narrative or textual description of the Mars’ song lyrics. The data takesthree phenomena under study, whereas songs from different sources in quantitative research specifies website. First song entiltled“It will numerical assignment to the rain” second song entitled“Talking to phenomena under study. This the Moon” and third song entitled research definitely described the “Grenade”. phenomena of the use of figurative The data from Bruno Mars’ language in Bruno Mars song lyrics song lyrics. According to Vanderston in phrases and sentences. and Johnston (2009: 167), state steps To be more specific, the type to collect the data.The first, of this research is mostly descriptive Researcher search the lyrics from the qualitative research. The analysis of website. The second, after finding the descriptive research is aimed at lyrics from Bruno Mars song, the providing a complicated description researcher read the lyrics of Bruno or illustrating phenomena. According Mars song and the researcher to Vanderstoep and Johnston (2009: understand the content of the Bruno 167), the purpose of qualitative Mars song lyric. The third, the research is more descriptive than researcher is analyzing figurative predictive. The goal is to understand, language on the Bruno Mars song in depth, the viewpoint of a research lyrics. participant. Thus, because all FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION understanding is construct, different The purpose of this research research participants are going to was to find out the types figurative have different interpretations based language and the meaning in Bruno on their own experience and the Mars’ song. The researcher took three social system within which they songs with the title, It will rain, interact. Talking to the Moon, Grenade. The In this research, researcher is song entitled It will rain released on as an instrument of the research. and September 27,2011 on album The field note as the instruments.In this Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn- Part study the researcher used Bruno 1, Talking to the Moon released on April 12,2011 on album Doo Wops All of Bruno Mars’ songs in Hooligans, and Grenade debuted on this research are indeed have many September 28, 2010 on Doo Wops types of figurative language, many Hooligans album. The data were people like this song because the art classifed, described, and analyzed the of language. In Bruno Mars songs types of figurative language. lyrics researcher found many Based on the data above the hyperbole are used. Many over researcher conclude that the statement that used in the songs. researcher found 3 songs contained Using many of hyperbole in his songs of simile, methapor, personification, make the people are very interesting hyperbole, and irony. There are : and fun hear his songs. Bruno Mars is 1. It will Rain song consists of very popular in teeneger and adult one simile, two metaphor, generation. three personification, and CONCLUSION three hyperbole The researcher aims to identify the 2. Talking to The Moon song types of figurative language in Bruno consists of one metaphor, one Mars’ song. In this research, the personification, and one researcher means to explore the types hyperbole of figurative language based on the 3. Grenade song consists of one expert. And the researcher also metaphor, one personification, identify meaning as connotative five hyperbole and four irony. meaning in the lyric of Bruno Mars’ Research finding is important song. The researcher using document part in this research. Research finding analysis as the design of this research. is result by data analyzed activities. The sources of the data are three song The finding must be suit with from Bruno Mars’ song, they are It research questions. The research will Rail, Talking To The Moon, and question was closed in figurative Grenade. Beside, the researcher is language used in lyrics of Bruno helped by the song lyric to look the Mars’ song expesially in three songs types of figurative language in the on Bruno Mars song. Bruno Mars song. The technique of collecting data is analysis document. Dancygier, Barbara. Sweetser, Eve. 2014. Figurative Language. In analyzing the data, the researcher New York: Cambridge uses analyze the qualitative data are University Press. data display, and conclusion drawing/ Leech, G.N. 1979, Semantics. verification. Auxland: Pengin Books. Eventually, the researcher and Vanderstoep, S. W. and Johnson, D. D. 2009. Research Methods for analyzes each from based on the Everyday Life: Blending context. In conclusion, the researcher Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. New York: finds several types of figurative JosseyBass.Verdonk, P. 2 language that used in Bruno Mars’s Wolf, Stacy. 2011.Changed for song. These types are simile, Good: A Feminist History of metaphor, personification, hyperbole, The Broadway Musical. New York. and irony. The reseacher found the types of figurative language. There were one of similes, four of methapor, four of personification, six of personification, and five of irony. From the data it can be seen that the dominant types f figurative language is hyperbole, then following by personification, irony, methapor and the last simile. And the researcher finds the connotative meaning and dennotative meaning in the lyrics of Bruno Mars’ song. REFERENCES Bruscia, K. 2007.Improvisational Model of Music Theraphy Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publisher .