Name: Wilda Robiah Salsabila

Class/Absent: XI MIPA 8/35

ANALYSIS SONG ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A. Language Features

This part is intended to answer the first research question about the types of
figurative language used in the selected songs by Jessi J. By conducting this study,
some findings have been found based on the data examined focusing on the types of
figurative language based on the data examined. Figurative language has been
classified into eight types of figurative meaning namely: personification, simile,
metaphor, hyperbole, irony, litotes, metonymy and oxymoron. All of the data
consisting the types of figurative language were gained by analyzing supported by
related theories and presented in the following tables of types of figurative language
in song as below:

No. Types of figurative language Song's Lyric

1. Personification
(a comparison of meaning by giving
human characteristics to an object, an
animal, or an abstract idea)
2. Simile
(a comparison between two different
things by using like or as)
1. OK, Coconut man, Moonheads, and
me You ready?
2. We just wanna make the world
dance
3. We need to take it back in time.
When music made us all unite.
1. Seems like everybody’s got a price
2. It’s like this man, you can’t put a
price on the life

3. Metaphor 1. We’re paying with love tonight

2. So we gonna keep everyone moving
(a comparison between two things by they feet
saying one thing is another)
4. Hyperbole 1. I wonder how they sleep at night
(a comparison of meaning for 2. And guess what, in thirty seconds
exaggeration by telling more than the I’m leaving to Mars
truth about the size, number, or degree
of something without Intending to
deceive)

5. Irony 1. Why is everybody so serious?

(a comparison by taking place when Acting so damn mysterious
the opposite of what a person
Intendedtodo, or expected to happen,
Occurs instead)
6. Litotes 1. It’s not about the money money
(a comparison of meaning in a form of money. We don’t need your money
understatement, always deliberate and money money
with the intention of subtle Emphasis)
7. Metonymy
(a comparison of meaning in which
The name of one object or idea is
Substituted for that of another Closely
associated with it)
1. Got shades on your eyes, and your
heels so high. That you can’t even
have a good time
2. Just give me six strings
3. We do this for the love so we fight
and sacrifice every night

8. Oxymoron 1. When the sale comes first and the

(a comparison by combining two
opposing or contradictory ideas)
truth comes second
2. Just stop for a minute and smile
3. And it wasn’t low blows and video
Hoes
4. So bring back the beat and then
Everyone sing

B. Generic Structure

You Are Price Tag by Jessie

(Intro: Jessie J)
Okay, Coconut Man, Moonhead and Pea
You ready?

(Verse 1: Jessie J)
Seems like everybody’s got a price
I wonder how they sleep at night
When the sale comes first and the truth comes second
Just stop for a minute and smile
Why is everybody so serious?
Acting so damn mysterious
Got shades on your eyes and your heels so high
That you can’t even have a good time

(Pre Chorus: Jessie J)

Everybody look to their left
Everybody look to their right
Can you feel that? Yeah
We’re paying with love tonight

(Chorus: Jessie J)
It’s not about the money, money, money
We don’t need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag
Ain’t about the, uh, cha-ching, cha-ching
Ain’t about the, yeah, ba-bling, ba-bling
Wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag

(Verse 2: Jessie J)
We need to take it back in time
When music made us all unite
And it wasn’t low blows and video hoes
Am I the only one getting tired?
Why is everybody so obsessed?
Money can’t buy us happiness
Can we all slow down and enjoy right now?
Guarantee we’ll be feeling alright

(Pre Chorrus: Jessie J)

Everybody look to their left (to their left)
Everybody look to their right (to their right)
Can you feel that? Yeah
We’re paying with love tonight

(Chorus: Jessie J)
It’s not about the money, money, money
We don’t need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag
Ain’t about the, uh, cha-ching, cha-ching
Ain’t about the, yeah, ba-bling, ba-bling
Wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag (yeah, yeah)

(Verse 3: B.o.B)
Well, keep the price tag (yeah) and take the cash back (back)
Just give me six strings (six strings) and a half stack (half stack)
And you can, can keep the cars, leave me the garage
And all I, yes, all I need are keys and guitars
And guess what? In 30 seconds, I’m leaving to Mars
Yeah, we leaping across these undefeatable odds
It’s like this, man, you can’t put a price on a life
We do this for the love, so we fight and sacrifice every night
 So we ain’t gon’ stumble and fall, never (nah)
Waiting to see this in the sign of defeat, uh-uh
So we gon’ keep everyone moving their feet
So bring back the beat and then everyone sing
(Chorus: Jessie J, B.O.B)
It’s not about the money, money, money
We don’t need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag
Ain’t about the, uh, cha-ching, cha-ching
Ain’t about the, yeah, ba-bling, ba-bling
Wanna make the world dance
Forget about the price tag (hey, hey)

It’s not about the money, money, money (we don’t need it)
We don’t need your money, money, money (no I don’t, we don’t need it)
We just wanna make the world dance (dance)
Forget about the price tag (dance your ass off, ah-ah)
Ain’t about the, uh, cha-ching, cha-ching
Ain’t about the, yeah, ba-bling, ba-bling (it ain’t about)
Wanna make the world dance (yeah, yeah)
Forget about the price tag (forget about the price tag)

(Outro: Jessie J)
Yeah, yeah, oh-oh
Forget about the price tag

C. The Meaning Of Song

Well, in the musical industry filled with hedonism themed song, it's one
of the songs trying to give social criticism. Yup, it's not a love song. It's
not a do-whatever-you-wanna-do song. It's a we-shouldn't-be-like-this
song sung in an easy listening styles.

 Story of the song ;

What do you think the view currently most followed by people around the
world? Of course, it's capitalism where every minute and everything are
measured with money. You will do something, which is perhaps you need
so much, if there is money you can get. Yes, money is the general
motivation of modern people in doing anything.

This song is opened with the facts above. "Seem like everybody's got a
price," so Jessie J sings. As if everybody only cares about money. How
can they live comfortably if they just focus on getting profit and not
prioritizing the truth. So, this first verse is closed with Jessie's suggestion
to relax, to smile for a while.

In the second verse, Jessie questions people's motives who tend to act
misteriously. Just like politicians whose moves can seem so confusing to
common people. Such people, in Jessie's view, are so serious in living
their life that they 'got shades on their eyes' and therefore they can't have
a good time.

Contrary to such people, Jessie decides not to measure anything with

money. Even, she declares in the chorus that she it's not money which she
is looking for. She just want to make the world a better place. She 'will
pay them with love". Then, she suggests people to forget about the money
because it 'can't buy us happiness'. What people need to be happy, she
continues, is to 'slow down and enjoy right now'.

In the verse section sung by BoB, it's again emphasized that it's love (and
music) which can make us happy and make the world a better place.

life isn’t all about the glamour, money, fame and fortune. And over time
everyone has forgotten about the true meaning of life. How we should
celebrate each other, and our differences. We always go back to
classifying each other as rich and poor, black or white, but at the end of
the day it doesn’t mater. The artist is trying to tell us that we put a price
on everything, and we forget about what really matters, we worry to
much about what other people think and we get carried away, so we don’t
enjoy life anymore, we put our selves through this misery and we can
choose to stop right now forget about the past