Women Representation In Taylor Swift’s Song Betty

Innayah Rahma Dini, Tantri Puspita Yazid

Abstract


This research focuses on women's representation in the lyrics of Betty by Taylor Swift. This research assumes that the song’s lyrics represent gender inequality within a relationship between a man and a woman that disadvantages the woman. Moreover, this research used Sara Mills's critical discourse analysis method to analyze the phenomenon which covers macro, micro, and author-reader analysis in the presentation. However, this research will mainly discuss women's representation in micro-level analysis. This is qualitative research with data acquired from documentation and literature - review. The result shows Betty by Taylor Swift puts women in the object position in the storytelling while men as the subject of the storytelling. The micro-level analysis showed women presented in these lyrics through the song titled choice, the use of the pronoun “she” and the women's character being explained from the men’s perspective. The author and listener position showed that there was no engagement between the author and listener yet she facilitated the lyrics for readers to accept and understand the values of the whole songs.


Keywords


Women Representation, Critical Discourse Analysis, Sara Mills, Mass Media, Song Lyrics.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22441/bmw.v17i02.31992

DOI (PDF): http://dx.doi.org/10.22441/bmw.v17i02.31992.g10058

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