Love signs in Sabrina Carpenter's lyrics album short n' sweet

Raya, Hafshah Santia Putri and Djuharie, Otong Setiawan and Ardiansyah, Erlan Aditya (2025) Love signs in Sabrina Carpenter's lyrics album short n' sweet. Edukasi Lingua Sastra, 23 (2). pp. 161-170. ISSN 2621-0673

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Abstract

Songs are able to convey listener’s feelings, allowing them to connect with their own experiences and create a shared emotional environment. Depending on their circumstances, each listener may derive a different meaning from a single love song. This interpretive flexibility allows songs to transcend their initial context and build a shared emotional landscape, enabling for many diverse interpretations and exploration of love.. This study aims to describe the representamen, object, and interpretant found in Sabrina Carpenter’s lyrics and how those elements reflect the types of love. This research is classified as descriptive qualitative research. The researcher uses content analysis with an interpretive framework based on Charles Sander Peirce’s semiotics theory. The data for this research consist of the lyrics of three songs from Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet album entitled “Please Please Please”, “Juno”, and “Sharpest tool”. The research result show that there are three types of love in the lyrics of these songs: self love, intimate love, and obsessive love. The love signs in the songs are conveyed through Charles Sander Peirce’s triadic theory, which includes object, representamen, and interpretant. The songs in this album are narrated from a first-person point of view, and the narrator also exhibits characteristics of woman’s language, including precise color term, lexical hedge, emphatic stress, intensifiers, empty adjectives, tag question, and empty adjective.

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