ELITE: Journal of English Language and Literature
Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Vol. 6 No. 1 June 2021

The Meaning of Denotation, Connotation, and Myth Used in Ariana Grande’s "God is A Woman" Song Lyrics

Ahmad Jafar (Unknown)
La Aso (Unknown)
Neil Amstrong (English Literature Study Program, Cultural Science Faculty, Universitas Halu Oleo)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Dec 2022

Abstract

This study focused on God is a woman song Lyrics. The writer took song lyrics as primary data and used a qualitative descriptive method that explained descriptively how the meaning used in Ariana Grande’s God is a woman song lyrics. The theory used in the study is semiotics, in particular, is the theory used by Roland Barthes. The result of this study based on Roland Barthes Semiotic’s theory in a way of denotative it is about sex and how she claims the chemistry will be so incredible that the guy is going to think she is God and in a way of connotative Ariana Grande campaigned for a struggle for gender equality and she showed off women's energy and independence. While the myth is God is a woman which this sentence represents gender differences in life. The answer to dismantling patriarchy is not raising a matriarchy in its place. But building our understanding of, as Ariana Grande puts it, "God as a woman," will help counterbalance almost every human's internalized beliefs that our creator is a man, a father, a guy in the sky. God is our mother, our father, our parents. Come to think of it, if God can be referred to with the masculine pronoun “he”, why is not okay for us to also use the female pronoun “she” when referring to God.

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elite

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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