Chalinee Chajaroenying (2005) conducted a study on the topic of “English
pop songs” She found that the purposes of the study are to examine the language use
in English pop songs. This study focuses the figurative language. All the lyrics of
English pop songs used for analysis in this report have been selected from four
sources: the international Entertainment Magazine Year Book 1999, The Nation Junior
Magazine, English through Music, and the internet. In this study, the meaning of
English pop songs and figurative language are described, such as simile, metaphor,
personification and so on. The most frequent uses of figurative language are hyperbole
and simile.