A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ON OLIVIA RODRIGO SONGS

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 ABSTRACTSemantic is the branches of linguistics. This branch is the important one, and there are lexical meaning and contextual meaning. By listening to the songs, we can get knowledge about appreciates literature and the background of the song. Therefore, the researcher was interested in analyzing the kinds of meaning used in Olivia Rodrigo songs. The researcher dedicated to give the title of this research “Semantic Analysis on Olivia Rodrigo Songs”.The problem of this study is: (1) what are the lexical meanings in the Olivia Rodrigo Songs? (2) What are the contextual meaning in the Olivia Rodrigo Songs?. The researcher takes 3 songs from same album, SOUR. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method because the researcher would analysis and interpret the research object of Olivia Rodrigo Songs. The step to obtain the data is by collecting sources of the data from Olivia Rodrigo Songs and from internet. After that she selects the songs which contain of semantic, reads and listens to the lyrics to understand the content of the songs conducts and analyzes the collected data and makes conclusion. The result of this research is as follows: (1) related to the lexical meaning, while (2) related to the contextual meaning.Keywords : semantic, song, lexical, contextual, Olivia Rodrigo.