The Description of Moral Values in Imagine Dragons’Selected Songs

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the types of moral values and find out the dominant type contained in the lyrics of Imagine Dragons' selected songs. In this paper, the writer uses the theory of moral values by Tony Buzan in the journal Types of Moral Values in an Indonesian Children's Movie by Syamaun et al. The data of this research are the song lyrics in five selected songs which are sourced from Imagine Dragons songs entitled Believer, Bad Liar, Thunder, Demons, and Whatever It Takes. In writing this paper, the writer used qualitative descriptive method. The results showed that the lyrics of the five songs have six types of moral values, such as bravery, honesty, steadfastness, sympathetic to others, sincerity, and kind-hearted. The lyrics also showed five contrast types of moral values, such as cowardice, haughtiness, deceit, cold hearted, and heartless. From some of these moral values, it is found that the value of steadfastness is the dominant type.