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. Diane Boothe and Jeff West conducted a study on the topic of “English Language Learning through Music and Song Lyrics—The Performance of a Lifetime”
EKA NUR NOVIANI SUGIYANTO (2014) conducted a study on the topic of “A Study of Figurative Language Found in Westlife’s Songs on Coast to Coast Album” The result showed that there are figurative languages found in Westlife’s songs on Coast to Coast album. Those figurative languages are divided into simile, metaphor, personification, irony, allusion, synecdoche, and hyperbole and there is no metonymy at all. There are also its messages of each song that was shown by the used of figurative language. The writer hopes that the future writers understand the theory of stylistics, especially about figurative language and its meaning to understand what is the contents of the song and also its messages.