The Analysis of Thematic Progression in Taylor Swift’s Popular Songs in 2019-2022

Abstract

This study is related to three types of Thematic Progression: reiteration/constant, zigzag/linier, and split/multiple. The data source is five songs entitled Anti Hero, Snow on the Beach, Maroon, Tis the Damn Season and False God by Taylor Swift's Popular Songs in 2019-2022. To obtain the objective of the study, the writers applied descriptive qualitative method. The steps of data analysis are: reading the whole lyrics, divided the texts into clauses according to each theme, determining the theme and rheme of each line of lyrics, describing the pattern of thematic progression observed in the song lyrics. The analysis result of thematic progression on these five songs is that the dominant thematic progression type is reiterations/constant (23 clauses), zigzag/linier (22 clauses), and split/multiple (11 clauses).

Keywords: Thematic Progression Pattern, Theme Rheme, Taylor Swift's Popular Song