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Volume 5 Issue 2

November 2021

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AN ANALYSIS OF DEIXIS IN “BEST SONG EVER” LYRICS BY ONE

DIRECTION

Analisis Deiksis Lirik Lagu “Best Song Ever” One Direction

Khafidoh Hidayati

Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Sidoarjo

[email protected]m

Abstrak: Lagu “Best Song Ever” karya grup vokal One Direction merupakan lagu yang bergenre

pop yang cukup terkenal. lagu ini awalnya dipopulerkan di London, Inggris pada tahun 2013.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan mengidentifikasi deiksis yang terdapat dalam

lagu “Best Song Ever” karya One Direction. Subjek yang digunakan penelitian dari penelitian ini

adalah lirik lagu “Best Song Ever” oleh One Direction. Peneliti menganalisis dan mengkaji setiap

syair lirik dalam lagu “Best Song Ever” karya One Direction untuk mempermudah dalam

melakukan pengambilan sampel lirik terhadap deiksis dalam lagu. nantinya hasil data deiksis

dalam lirik lagu “Best Song Ever” oleh One Direction akan ditinjau ulang guna mengidentifikasi

lanjut serta mengategorikan jenis deiksis, kajian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan luaran

hasil analisis yang realistis. Dalam penelitian ini, penulis telah menganalisis sebuah lagu yang

berjudul “Best Song Ever by One Direction” dan menemukan beberapa jenis kesalahan deiksis

yang sering muncul pada setiap bait lirik lagu tersebut, yaitu deiksis persona dan deiksis

temporal/waktu. Deiksis yang dominan dalam lirik lagu “Best Song Ever” karya One Direction

adalah deiksis persona.

Kata Kunci: Analisis, Deiksis, Lirik lagu

Abstract: The “best song ever” by the vocal group One Direction is a popular pop genre song.

This song was originally popularized in London, England in 2013. This study aims to analyze and

identify the deixis contained in the song "Best Song Ever" by One Direction. The subject of this

research is the lyrics of the song "Best Song Ever" by One Direction. The researcher analyzes and

examines each lyric in the song "Best Song Ever" by One Direction to make it easier to sample

the lyrics of the deixis in the song. Later, the results of the deixis data in the song "Best Song Ever"

by One Direction will be reviewed to further identify and categorize the types of deixis; this study

Naskah Dikirim: 28 Februari 2022; Direvisi: 25 Mei 2022; Diterima: 25 Mei 2022

How to cite (in APA style):

Hidayati, K. (2021). An Analysis of Deixis to Song Lyrics “Best Song Ever” by One

Direction. Etnolingual, 5(2), 152—158. https://doi/ 10.20473/etno.v4i2.34016

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uses a qualitative method with realistic analysis results. In this study, the author has analyzed a

song entitled "Best Song Ever by One Direction" and found several types of deixis errors that

often appear in each verse of the song's lyrics, namely persona deixis and temporal/time deixis.

The dominant deixis in the lyrics of the song "Best Song Ever" by One Direction is the persona

deixis.

Keywords: analyze, deixis, song lyric

INTRODUCTION

The song is one form of expression to communicate beautifully. Through songs, a person

can express his feelings indirectly to others. The song is also considered an art of

communication to express feelings, emotions, feelings, etc. In communicating, humans

do not only use writing or just speaking, communicating through songs is one way that

can give a person peace of mind because they can express or vent their hearts through the

beautiful stanzas of words that are rhythmic and pitched.

According to Yen-yen, Iman (2020), and Saarikalio (2010), music can affect mood

and behavior. Most music is important to people's lives because it can bring joy and mood

to help people create a beautiful atmosphere. Music has a relationship between the lyrics

and the meaning of the song because music has a specific meaning to the listener and

depends on the meaning of the lyrics related to the listener's experience. Poetry is an

expression that people have about what they have experienced, heard, or seen through the

lyrics of a song. The experience presented through expression is of interest to the listener,

with the characteristics of the songwriter using the game world and language.

Yen-yen, Iman (2020) quoting from Santoso, et al (2014) Language functions like

a personal work of language, that is the speaker states the attitude towards what is

presented. Language is the meaning of context that processes studies to know the meaning

of the text through study pragmatics. Pragmatics is the learning aspect of contextual

meaning from the language that uses it. However, it depends on the speakers, listeners,

and other things in the context of speech.

According to Aas, and Acep (2019), deixis is everyday communication and text,

such as short stories and speech. Language utterances often use Deiki to indicate the state

of a persona. Space and time. The jargon (from Greek) Yule (1996) supports this best.

The basics we do in language. For example, in the sentence "I love him". The pronouns

"I" and "he" can only be understood in the context of speech. The only known expression

in the context of the speech is called deixis. This supports Diesel’s (2012) saying so Audio

events are conceptualized from a different angle. In short, you refer to different entities

when used by different speakers, like me and you here and there. The purpose of this

study is to analyze and identify the deixis contained in the song "Best Song Ever" by One

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Direction.

The result of the research is expected to be useful as a learning reference regarding

deixis in the song “Best Song Ever” by One Direction and can be useful for sharpening

knowledge about deixis in a song lyric.

THEORETICAL REVIEW

There have been many related studies on this research, some of which are research by

Nguyen (2020) with the journal-title “An Analysis of Deixis to Song Lyrics “My Heart

Will Go on” by Celine Dion” Deixis refers to words and phrases, such as “me” or “here”

that cannot fully understand without additional contextual information or deixis that point

to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking. Deixis is used in most

conversations or writing of literary works such as the writing of song lyrics. At this time,

the researchers are interested in analyzing how many deixis such as personal deixis, place

deixis, and time deixis are used in the lyric’s song by Celine Dion. Lyrics of a song are

the same as poetry because the song is a poem sung. In this research, the researchers used

Celine Dion ‘s lyrics and analyzed every single word. The problem raised in this research

was What kinds of deixis were found in the lyrics of the song “My Heart Will Go On'' by

Celine Dion. Some theories were used in this research namely Bouk (2016), Brown and

Yule (1983), Peccei (1999), and Yule (1996). Qualitative research was conducted in this

research with the source data taken from the lyrics of the song. The lyrics were analyzed

using the theories and to be classified into the types of deixis based on the theories

provided. After analyzing the data, the researchers found that there were three parts of

deixis depicted in the lyric’s song, namely: Personal deixis, Spatial deixis, and Temporal

deixis.

A Deixis Analysis of Song Lyrics in Calum Scott’s “You Are the Reason''. Elsaria

Sitorus dan Herman. 2019. This research is entitled A DEIXIS ANALYSIS OF SONG

LYRICS IN CALUM SCOTT “YOU ARE THE REASON”. The mini-research aims to

analyze the kinds of deixis and the dominant deixis in the song lyrics “you are the reason”

by Calum Scott. The discussion began by taking the lyric “you are the reason” as the most

popular song at this time. Deixis comes from classical Greek deiknunai. It means to show

or point out which is used to denote those elements in the utterance which form directly

to the situation. The study in this paper is concerned with how the researcher explains the

kinds of deixis and the dominant deixis used in this lyric. Qualitative research was used

as the method of the research. The data used to complete this study is song lyrics. From

the data analysis taken from this lyric song, the researcher found that there are 67 words

including kinds of deixis in this song. From the data analysis, the researcher found there

are three kinds of deixis, they are Person deixis is used to point to objects (it, these, those

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books), all pronouns (I, you, we), possessives (your, our, they’re), Spatial deixis used to

point to a location (here, there, close to). Temporal indexical is expressed in time

adverbials like “now, soon, lately, recently, ago, today, tomorrow, yesterday” and the last

is Temporal deixis used to point to a time (now, then, next week, last month). Finally, the

researcher hopes this research will be useful to sharpen the reader in understanding deixis.

The advantage of this research compared to previous research is that it uses the

subject of songs from One Direction which did not exist in previous studies. This study

focuses more on two types of deixis, namely person deixis and temporal deixis, but the

type of person deixis is more dominant. Because the language used in the lyrics of the

song is very easy to understand, it is easy to classify the deixis in the research.

RESEARCH METHOD

Song lyrics “Best Song Ever” by One Direction because in previous research no one has

examined the deixis in the lyrics of the song "Best Song Ever" by One Direction. The

writer collected deixis in song lyrics “Best Song Ever” by One Direction, the writer

analyzed the deixis of the data that had been collected using qualitative research methods.

RESULT AND DISCUSSION

After analyzing the data that has been obtained, the researcher has found the deixis

contained in the song entitled “Best Song Ever” by One Direction. In this study, the

researcher used several steps, as follows: first, the researcher transcribed the song lyrics;

second, the researcher classified the deixis contained in the song into several types

including person deixis, temporal deixis; This can be proven by the details of the tables

below:

Table 1. Deixis Analysis

NO Lyric of song Types of deixis

Maybe it's the way she walked (wow)

Straight into my heart and stole it

Through the doors and past the guards (wow)

Just like she already owned it

She (second person deixis), my (first

person deixis), past (temporal deixis)

I said, "can you give it back to me?"

She said, "never in your wildest dreams"

I (first person deixis), you (second person

deixis), she (second person deixis)

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And we danced all night to the best song ever

We knew every line, now I can't remember

How it goes but I know that I won't forget her

Cause we danced all night to the best song ever

We (first-person deixis), night (temporal

deixis), now (temporal deixis), I (first

person deixis)

I think it went oh, oh, oh

I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah

I think it goes (ooh)

I (first person deixis)

Said her name was Georgia Rose (wow)

And her daddy was a dentist

Said I had a dirty mouth (I got a dirty mouth)

But she kissed me like she meant it

Her (second person deixis), I (first person

deixis), she (second person deixis)

I said, "can I take you home with me?"

She said, "never in your wildest dreams"

I (first person deixis), you (second person

deixis), she (second person deixis), your

(second person deixis)

And we danced all night to the best song ever

We knew every line, now I can't remember

How it goes but I know that I won't forget her

Cause we danced all night to the best song ever

We (first-person deixis), night (temporal

deixis), now (temporal deixis), I (first

person deixis)

I think it went oh, oh, oh

I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah

I think it goes (ooh)

I (first person deixis)

You know, I know, you know I'll remember you

And I know, you know, I know you'll remember

And you know, I know, you know I'll remember

you

And I know, you know, I hope you'll remember

How we danced, how we danced (one, two, one,

two, three)

You (second person deixis), I (first person

deixis), me (first person deixis), we (first

person deixis)

10.

And we danced all night to the best song ever

We knew every line, now I can't remember

How it goes but I know that I won't forget her

Cause we danced all night to the best song ever

We (first-person deixis), night (temporal

deixis), now (temporal deixis), I (first

person deixis)

11.

I think it went oh, oh, oh

I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah

I (first person deixis)

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I think it goes (ooh)

Best song ever

It was the best song ever

Based on the table above, the author has classified the types of deixis contained in the

song “Best Song Ever” by One Direction. With these groupings, the author can easily

analyze the types of deixis that exist.

According to Fitriani, the first-person pronoun is a reference to the speaker himself.

In other words, the first-person pronoun refers to the speaker. Personal pronouns can be

divided into two parts: singular and plural. The singular pronouns come in several forms,

such as me. Plural pronouns, on the other hand, have several forms: we, us, and ours.

The indication of the results of the deixis research on the song is the use of words that

are light and easy to understand. Then the song uses more personal deixis and temporal

deixis, but more personal deixis appears because the song tells the story of someone who

falls in love at first sight through a first-person perspective. In the previous study, the first

song entitled "My Heart Will Go On" used a lot of person deixis, which means that in the

text it explains or shows that the song refers to the person being spoken of in the song.

Meanwhile, the second song entitled "You are The Reason" still uses more personal

deixis, which means that the song explains the meaning that refers to the person being

spoken of in the song.

It can be interpreted that these songs use more personal deixis because the theme of

the song talks about a person or describes someone who is being talked about and refers

to the inclusive or plural form.

CONCLUSION

In this study, the author has analyzed a song entitled “Best Song Ever” by One Direction

and found several types of deixis that often appear in each verse of the song's lyrics,

namely person deixis and temporal/time deixis using qualitative research methods. The

dominant deixis in the lyric song “Best Song Ever” by One Direction is person deixis. It

means that the song can help as a medium to learn about several types of deixis such as

personal deixis and temporal deixis which are widely found in the song.

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