Symbol of Love in Lany’s Songs Album "SOFT"

Abstract

In a song, writers are free to express their imagination to describe the lives they live. Especially romantic lives, which are often found in songs on an artist's album. Romantic songs contain many symbols that have meanings behind them. Thus, representation as a symbol, especially the symbol of love, has a branch of science that explains how something can have meaning. With this interpretive approach, songs can transcend their original context and delve deeper into the exploration of love. This study aims to describe the representamen, object, and interpretant found in the lyrics of Lany's songs and how these elements reflect different types of love. This study is classified as descriptive qualitative research. The researcher uses content analysis with an interpretive framework based on Charles Sander Peirce's semiotic theory. The research data consists of the lyrics of four songs from Lany's latest album Soft (2025), namely “Soft”, “Know You Naked”, “Good Parts”, and “Last Forever”. The results of the study show that there are three types of love in the lyrics of these songs: passionate love, long-lasting love, and unconditional love. The signs of love in these songs are conveyed through Charles Sander Peirce's triadic theory, which includes objects, representamen, and interpretants. The symbol of sincere and delicate love is a true depiction of life as represented in the lyrics of songs from Lany's album Soft.