CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
C. Maher Zain Song Lyric
3. Lyric
According to Dallin “Lyrics are printed as a form of communication between the author and the readers”. Mainly of the times, they carry a message (whatever that might be) with the purpose of inspiring the listeners, at least, to think about it. Such a purpose and form of communication are entrenched in the cultural context of these people, according to their musical preference occasion, etc.16
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. Usually consisting of verses and choruses. The meaning of lyrics can either be
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explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of expression. A lyric is a paper written by someone who has imagination in composing beautiful words that have deep meaning.
Lyrics and music combined would be a very good song and pleasing to the ear. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrics.
According to Hornby, he stated that the lyrics are expressing a person's personal feeling and thoughts, connected with singing and written for a lyric poem is the words of a song. It means, lyrics are expressing someone's feelings which are then written into a lyric.
Language song really is not much changed from the language of poetry.
It is a short lyric poem that expresses emotion. Song lyrics are poetry that singing. Form of emotive expressions is realized in sounds and words. Language in the song lyrics has rules that are elements of poems emotive through sounds and words. In addition to get a particular impression as poetry, language lyrics are concise and packed. This is explained by the lyrics of the song has undergone a process of compaction of meaning and creativity diction of election poet.17
4. Maher Zain’s song Lyric a. InshaAllah
Everytime you feel like you cannot go on You feel so lost and That you're so alone
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All you see is night and darkness all around You feel so helpless
You can't see which way to go Don't despair and never lose hope Cause Allah is always by your side Insha' Allah Insha Allah
Insha' Allah you'll find your way Insha' Allah Insha Allah
Insha' Allah you'll find your way
Every time you commit one more mistake
You feel you can't repent and that it's way too late You're so confused, wrong decisions you have made Haunt your mind and your heart is full of shame But don't despair and never lose hope
Cause Allah is always by your side Insha' Allah Insha Allah
Insha' Allah you'll find your way Insha' Allah Insha Allah
Insha' Allah you'll find your way Turn to Allah
He's never far away Put your trust in Him Raise your hands and pray
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O Ya Allah
Guide my steps don't let me go astray
You're the only one who can show me the way Show me the way
Insha' Allah Insha Allah Insha' Allah we'll find our way Insha' Allah Insha Allah Insha' Allah we'll find our way Insha' Allah Insha Allah Insha' Allah we'll find our way Insha' Allah Insha Allah Insha' Allah we'll find our way Insha' Allah Insha Allah Insha' Allah we'll find our way Insha' Allah Insha Allah
In sha' Allah we'll find our way.18 b. For The Rest of My Life
I praise Allah for sending me you my love You found me home and sail with me And I'm here with you
Now let me let you know You've opened my heart
18 Awkening Music. “Insha Allah Official Music Video”. “Youtube”. Youtube 1 May 2010.Web. 28 May 2020.
I was always thinking that love was wrong
But everything was changed when you came along And there's a couple of words I want to say
For the Rest of My Life I'll be with you I'll stay by your side honest and true
Till the end of my time I'll be loving you. loving you For the Rest of My Life
Through days and nights
I'll thank Allah for opening my eyes Now and forever I, I'll be there for you I know it deep in my heart
I feel so blessed when I think of you And I ask Allah to bless all we do
You're my wife and my friend and my strength And I pray we're together in Jana
Now I find myself I feel so strong
Everything has changed when you came along And there's a couple of words I want to say For the Rest of My Life I'll be with you I'll stay by your side honest and true
Till the end of my time I'll be loving you. loving you For the Rest of My LifeThrough days and nights
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I'll thank Allah for opening my eyes Now and forever I, I'll be there for you I know it deep in my heart
Now that you're here in front of me I strongly feel love And I have no doubt
And I'm singing loud that I'll love you eternally For the Rest of My Life I'll be with you
I'll stay by your side honest and true
Till the end of my time I'll be loving you.loving you For the Rest of My Life
Through days and nights
I'll thank Allah for opening my eyes
Now and forever I I'll be there for youI know it deep in my heart19
c. Hold My Hand
I hear the flowers kind of crying loud The breeze is sounding sad, oh no
Tell me when did we become so cold and empty inside Lost our way long time ago did we really turn that blind?
We don't see that
We keep hurting each other no all we do is just fight Now we share the same bright sun
19 Awkening Music. For The Rest Of My Life Official Music Video”. “Youtube”.
Youtube 28 September 2011.Web. 28 May 2020.
The same round moon
Why don't we share the same love?
Tell me why not
Life is shorter than most had thought Hold my hand
There are many ways to do it right Hold my hand
Turn around and see what we've left behind Hold my hand my friend
We could save the good spirit in me and you For another chance
And let's pray for the beautiful world The beautiful world I share with you Children seem like they've lost their smile On the new bloody play grounds, oh no
How could we ignore heart breaking crying sounds And we're still going on like nobody really cares And we just stopped feeling
All the pain we cause Like it's a daily basic affair Now we share the same bright sun
The same round moon
Why don't we share the same love?
Tell me why not
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Life is shorter than most had thought No matter how far I might be
I'm always going to be your neighbour There's only one small planet where to be So I'm always going to be your neighbour We cannot hide, we can't deny
That we're always going to be neighbours
Your neighbour, my neighbour, we're neighbours20
20Awkening Music. “Hold may Hand Official Music Video”. “Youtube”. Youtube 20 January 2012.Web. 28 May 2020.
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
A. Research Design
There are two types of research method, they are qualitative and quantitative method. The characteristic of this research is chosen based on its purpose. he characteristics of this study were chosen based on their objectives. It has been quoted that according to Creswell, "Qualitative research is one type of research that can be used in the scope of education in addition to quantitative research and classrooms".In this researcher used a descriptive research method, in which the data are described systematically to get an accurate and factual result. Isaac and Michael state, Descriptive qualitative method describes the population and the evidence of the data systematically, factually and accurately. The purpose of descriptive research is to describe systematically the facts and characteristics. This study used a descriptive qualitative method to study the problem because this study has purpose to describe and analyze the types of figurative language used in Maher Zain selected songs. This study is carried out by formulating problem, collecting data, classifying data, and analyzing data.
Research is an activity to observe something which is done by the researcher. When we do the research, one of the most important thing in the research is research design. Creswell states research designs are the
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specific procedures involved in the research process: data collection, data analysis, and report writing.
The research design used in this study is content analysis. Ary Content analysis focuses on analyzing and interpreting recorded material to learn about human behavior. The material may be public records, textbooks, letters, film, tapes, diaries, themes, reports, or other documents.
B. Data Resource
Data are raw material that needs to be processed to produce information. The data of this study are all lyrics produced from song‟s lyric containing figurative language. Song lyrics include words, sentences or utterances of doing something based on the text dialogue. The source of data in the study is subjects from which the data can be obtained. This research uses song‟s lyric from Maher Zain‟s songs they are:
1) Hold My Hand 2) InsyaAllah
3) FoR The Rest My Life.
Some information from other books and internet is to complete this study. Maher Zain was born march 16, 1981 in Tripoli Lebanon. He is thirty two years old. He is a Muslim Swedish. Then Maher Zain is R&B singer, songwriter and music producer. His album Thank you Allah releases in 2009 is successful album. Furthermore he released his follow up album Forgive me on April 2, 2012. When he was eight years old his family moved to Sweden. He finished schooling there gaining a Bachelor
degree in Aeronautical Engineering. After that he entered the music industry and linked up with Red One, the Moroccon born Swedish producer. In 2006, he moved to New York and continues his music industry career in the USA producing for artists such as Kat Deluna.
Maher Zain decide to move away from a career as a music producer to become a singer or songwriter of contemporary R&B music. He began working on the album with Awakening Records in January 2009. In 1 November 2009 he was released album Thank You Allah with 13 songs and two bonuses. Maher Zain successfully used new media such as You Tube, Facebook, and iTunes to promote the album.
In 2010, he was most Google celebrity in Malaysia for that year. In 2010, his album Thank You Allah received 8 platinum awards from Warner music Malaysia as the highest selling album. Then in 2011, Thank You Allah earned a double platinum award from Sony music Indonesia.
He sings mainly in English but has released some of his most popular songs in other languages. For example is “InsyaAllah” is now available in Malay, Arabic, French, English, Turkish and Indonesian version. Next Maher Zain released Freedom in March 2011. Its song inspired by the events and actions of the people taking part in the Arab spring. In January 2010, Maher Zain won best religious song for Ya Nabi Salam Alayka, on Nujoom FM, a major Middle East mainstream music station, beating other prominent singers including Hussein Al Jismi, Mohammed Mounir and
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Sami Yusuf. He was chosen as Muslim star of 2011 in a competition organized by Onislam.21
so, maherzain celebrities who won the best religious songs and received awards and were chosen as Muslim stars.
C. Data CollectionTechnique
Research Creswell stated that “In many qualitative studies, inquiries collect multiple forms of data and send a considerable time in the natural setting gathering information”.22 In collecting the data, the writer needs the instrument. The instrument that will be used by the writer is documentation.
Meanwhile, Zina agrue, “The term „document‟ can refer to omre than just paper and can include photographs, works of art and even television program”. 23 Documentation is method used to obtain information from the written sources, wheter in the form of books, magazines, regulations, daily notes and so on.
In getting the data, the writer uses the documentation method to get the detail data about idiom expressions found in the song lyric by Maher Zain. The techniques will be used in collecting data are:
1. Reading, the writer reads song liryc by Maher Zain.
21https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maher-Zain/, on February 25 2020 at 8:05 p.m.
22John W. Creswell,“Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Method Approachs Second Edition.” (USA: Sage Publication, Inc. 2003), 189.
23Zina O‟Leary, The Essential Guide to Doing Research, (London: Sage Publication, 2004), 177.
2. The data will be selected by the writer then collect systematically in accordance with the problems of the study.
D. Data Analysis
The data are analyzed to answer the research question. The researcher must determine whether the result answers the research questions. After the data have been obtained from data sources, the data were analyzed through the following procedure:
1. Reading and identifying the whole lyrics to find figurative language.
The first step in collecting data, the researcher reads and identifies the figurative languages used in the lyrics.
2. Classifying lyrics to find the types of figurative language. After the data had been identified, the researcher classifies the data into the types of figurative language according to the theories of Keraf.
3. Analyzing the meaning of figurative language in the lyrics. To analyzing the meaning, the researcher reads every lyric that consists of figurative language. The researcher studies the meaning by analysing the contextual meaning in the lyrics. After that, the researcher tries to find the meaning of figurative language used in the lyrics.
4. The writer conveys and generate the descriptive information of finding other analysis about the Figurative Language result. The writer will an analysis of figurative language in the song lyric by maher zain and calculate the proportions (frequency and percentage) of the types of Figurative language and how many figurative language found.
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The formula below is used:
P = f/( n) x 100%
Note:
P= Percentage
f= Frequency of a type n= Number of total
5. Making conclusion The last step was making a conclusion according to the analyzed data. After the researcher found the answer from research problem, then the researcher will make the conclusion based on the finding.
CHAPTER IV
RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In this chapter explanation about the research finding that the writer found, there are the types of figurative language and the type of figurative language is mostly used in the 3 song lyrics of Maher Zain. The songs are:
Insha Allah, Hold My Hand and For The Rest Of My Life.
A. Findings
The purpose of this study was to find the figurative language found in Maher zain song lyric. The data of this research was taken from 3 song lyric by maher zain the songs are : insha allah, hold my hand, for the rest of my life. After reading and analyzing the song lyric insha allah, hold my hand, for the rest of my life by maher zain, the writer found 84 meaning which refer to figurative language.
After presenting the words attached with figurative language which found in the lyric and putting it in the table, the writer presents a table which is going to show the figurative language. The following table is going to show the words, sentences, figurative language which is found in the song lyric by maher zain.
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Tabel 1. Figurative Language in the song lyric Insha Allah
No Figurative
Language Data Bait Frequency %
1. Simile - Every time you feel like
you can not go on 1 1 2 %
2. Metaphor - Allah is always by your
side 7,17 3 7%
- You‟re the only one who
can show me the 28
3. Personification - Haunt your mind and your heart is full of shame
15 1 2%
4. Synecdoche - Put your trust in him 24 2
5%
- Raise your hands and
pray 25
5. Hyperbole - You feel so helpless 4 3
- He‟s never far away 23 7%
- Guide my steps don‟t let
me go astray 27
6. Irony - You feel so lost and that you‟re so alone
2 6 15%
- All you see is night and
darkness all around 3 - You can‟t see which way
to go 5
- Every time you can might
one more mistake 12
- You feel you can‟t repentand that it‟s way too late
13 - You‟re so confused,
wrong decisions you have made
14 7. Parallelism - Don‟t dispair and never
lose hope 6,16 2 5%
8. Euphemism - Insha Allah you‟ll find
your way 9,11,19,21 10 25%
- Insha Allah we‟ll find our way
31,33,35,37 ,39,41 9. Alliteration - Insha Allah 2x 8,10,18,20,
30,32,34,36 ,38,40
10 25%
10. Tanpa bahasa Kiasan
- Turn to Allah - O ya Allah
- Show me The way
22 26 29
3 7%
Total Bait 41 100%
Picture 1. Figurative Language in the song lyric Insha Allah In Table 1. there are several figures of speech in the lyrics of the song Insha Allah by Maher Zain. In graph 1. you can see the percentage of each figurative language in the lyrics of the insha allah song. The highest percentage of figures of speech in the song are Alliteration and Euphemism, each of which has 25%. Whereas figurative languages with a low percentage are Simile and Personification, each of which has a percentage of 2%.
Tabel 2. Figurative Language in the song lyric For The Rest Of My Life
No. Figurative
Language Data Bait Frequency %
1. Hyperbole - I praise Allah for
sending me you my love 1 25 60%
- You found me home and
sail with me 2
- You've opened my heart 5 - Everything was changed
when you came along 7,22 - For the Rest of My Life 9,24,35
2%
7% 2%
5%
7%
15%
25% 5%
25%
7%
Insha Allah
Simile Metaphor Personification Synecdoche Hyperbole Irony Parallelism Euphemism Alliteration
Not figurative language
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I‟ll be with you
- Till the end of my time I'll be loving you. loving you
11,26,37 - I'll thank Allah for
opening my eyes 14,29,40 - Now and forever I. I‟ll
be there for you 15,30,41
\ - I know it deep in my
heart 16,31,42
- I feel so blessed when I
think of you 17
- You're my wife and my
friend and my strength 19 - Now I find myself I feel
so strong 21
- Now that you're here In front of me I strongly
feel love
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- And I'm singing loud that I'll love you
eternally 34
2. Litotes - I was always thinking
that love was wrong 6 1 2%
3. Antithesis - Through days and nights 13,28,39 3 7%
4. Tanpa bahasa kiasan
- And I‟m here with you - Now let me let you know - And there‟s a couple of
words I want to say - I‟II stay by your side
honest and true - For the rest of my life - And I ask Allah to bless
all we do
- And I pray we‟re together in Jana
- And there‟s a couple of words I want to say - And I have no doubt
3 4 8
10,25,36 12,38,27
18 20 23 33
13
60%
Total bait 42 100%
Picture 2. Figurative Language in the song lyrik For The Rest Of My Life In Table 2 there are several figures of speech in the lyrics of the song Insha Allah by Maher Zain. In graph 2 you can see the percentage of each figurative language in the lyrics of the song For The Rest Of My Life.
The highest percentage of figurative language in the song is Hyperbole which has 60%. Whereas figurative language with a low percentage is Litotes which has a percentage of 2%.
Tabel 3. Figurative Language in the song lyrik Hold My Hand
No. Figurative
language Data Bait Frequency %
1. Simile - Children seem like
they‟ve lost their 21 3 8%
- And we're still going on like nobody really cares
24 - And we just stopped
feeling all the pain we cause
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2. Metaphor - Life is shorter than most had thought
11,31 3 8%
- Your neighbour, my neighbour, we're neighbours
38 60%
2%
7%
31%
For The Rest Of My Life
Hyperbole Litotes Antithesis
Not Figurative Language