Vulgar and Obscene Terms in Indonesian Song Lyrics (The Reflection Language Creativity)

Abstract

Language is dynamic, social, complex, and multimodal, patterned and purposive just as all these kids of behavior. It is characterized from the language creativity emerging in the society as both linguistics and social phenomena. This article brings out the phenomenon of vulgar terms used in Indonesian song lyrics which is pondered belonging as the social language creativity. This research aims to describe the variation of vulgar terms found in Indonesian song lyrics. It takes 50 titles of Indonesian songs popularized between 1998 up to 2017 as the data sources. The data collected comprised of vocabularies and other forms of linguistic unit containing the phenomena of romance, loving, husband and wife relationship and family. The application of content analysis in this article is directed efficiently to describe various kinds of vocabularies or terms representing those phenomena. It focuses mainly on the transformation of general vocabularies toward explicit vulgar and obscene. The research results show that there are variation vocabulary starting implied, express, than clearly explicit and vulgar of various vocabulary who refers to romance, husband and wife relationship, and family.

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“…The lyrics of 50 Indonesian songs being popular in 1998 to 2017 expose vulgar and sexual expressions (Kusumaningsih et al, 2018). Pop and hip hop or rap are the music genres among others which are very popular to young people.…”

“…Experts claim that there are many song lyrics which expose lust, vulgar free sex, verbal violence, misogyny, and hatred (Kusumaningsih, Santosa, & Subroto, 2018). It is also admitted that there is a significant change in the content of song lyrics from love to free sexual lust (Madanikia & Bartholomew, 2014).…”

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