TABOO WORDS IN POP, ROCK, AND HIP HOP SONGS.

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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

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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.

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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

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 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,

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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

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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

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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

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LIST OF APPENDIX

Appendix of Pop Songs ... 45

Appendix of Rock Songs ... 54

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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

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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 :

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(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

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(2) Practically, the findings can be useful for listener in appreciating the

songs, the findings can be useful also for students, lecturers, and future

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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

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