Horizon of Expectation on Popular Lyrical Poetry: Jauss’s Reader Response Perspective

Humans have various opinions in commenting on a literary work. This diversity of will eventually participate developing research the world. Lyrics are medium for an author to convey message he wants more free and elegant form. study aims describe reader's perception messages values contained lyrics Rebel's Girl from Bikini Kill, Beyonce Partition, God Is Woman Ariana Grande. uses Jauss' theory Harapan Horizon where role reader is main key conducting investigation qualitative descriptive literature using questionnaire distributed readers who used as respondents. Respondents were selected randomly with aim knowing differences opinion each respondent responding The conclusion this that obtained influenced by backgrounds respondents such gender, age, level education experience. In addition, there through lyrics, namely; freedom speech, feminism, inner beauty, sex education.