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This study aims to uncover the meaning of loyalty and sacrifice in the lyrics of the song "Sumpah dan Cinta Matiku" by Nidji through Roland Barthes' semiotic approach. The analysis is conducted at three levels of meaning, namely denotative, connotative, and myth, to understand how song lyrics form emotional messages as well as ideologies in Indonesian popular culture. At the denotative level, a literal meaning is found regarding the pledge of loyalty and commitment of love between two people who are emotionally bound to each other. The connotative level displays emotional and cultural meanings in the form of a willingness to sacrifice and steadfastness in maintaining love, which is often depicted as a heroic and struggle-filled act. Meanwhile, at the mythical level, this song brings up the ideology of romantic love that is absolute, eternal, and demands unconditional sacrifice, as often found in love narratives in other popular media. Lyrics such as "Sumpah mati hanya kau yang kucinta" and "Meski badanku has become one with the ground, cintaku tetap hidup bagi bagi" reflect the cultural construction that true love must be proven by suffering, extreme loyalty, and even sacrifice of life. This meaning emphasizes that love is not merely an emotional connection, but a form of total devotion that cannot be shaken by any circumstances. This song indirectly instills the idea that love means being willing to lose everything, including one's life, to maintain that love. The results of this study indicate that these songs not only convey personal messages of love but also play a role in shaping and perpetuating the myth of love in society. This finding is reinforced by various previous studies that state that popular music plays a role as a medium for reproducing cultural values, particularly regarding idealized, sacrificial, and irrational love.

Copyright of songs or music has proven to be able to open up almost limitless financial opportunities. It is difficult to determine how much a song is used for commercial purposes by parties other than the original creator. A major challenge in the music industry is the fair and transparent distribution of copyright royalties for songs. To address this issue, it is important to explore international best practices and case studies that reveal successful royalty distribution models and technology-based solutions for accurate tracking and payment. Important aspects of a fair and transparent royalty distribution model include transparency in revenue sharing, fair allocation based on popularity and usage of songs, and simplification of the royalty collection process through technology. The research method used is normative legal research. This research is prescriptive and applied. The method of collecting legal materials is by means of literature study and the legal materials used are primary legal materials and secondary legal materials. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the implementation of Law Number 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright and Government Regulation Number 56 of 2021. This study also identifies the legal, technical, and social challenges faced in protecting the rights of songwriters and ensuring fair royalty payments.

The lyrics of the song that will be discussed in this study are Wildflower which is a pop song created by Billie Eilish which was released on May 17 2024 in her third studio album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. This song tells the story of Billie's experience of initially comforting a girl who is heartbroken after a breakup, but then she actually has a relationship with the girl's ex-lover. The purpose of this study is to describe the language style contained in the lyrics of the Wildflower song and explain the meaning of the language described. This research is qualitative research. The research for this study is to use data analysis, namely listening to the song to be analyzed, understanding the content of the lyrics, then looking for words that contain majas or language style. The method used is qualitative descriptive. The data of this study is an analysis of the use of metaphor, personification, repetition, hyperbole, and irony language styles contained in the lyrics of the Wildflower song. The results of this study show that there is the use of metaphor, personification, repetition, hyperbole, and irony language styles in the lyrics of Wildflower songs.

The highest of indonesian musician to develop Indonesia’s song force them to recycle a popular song into two version (Javanese and indonesia). This paper focused in analysing how the process of transalation is and what ideology that was used in transalting these songs. Qualitative is the method that was used in this research. The data of this research is dangdut songs entitile “layang sworo” and ”oplosan”. In gathering the data, researcher used observation and questioner and in analyzing the data researcher used analysing and clasifiying. The result of the analsis shows that the translator used foreignisation ideology in translating these songs. It goes to that conclusion because the characteristic and the use of method in translating the songs. The characteristics are the translator put some word in source language in the target language, the target language text is like a translation text, and the translator almost did not add or reduce the source language text in the target language text. Then the methods were used are word for word, literal translation and semantic translation.