The purposes of this study to find the moral values on selected songs lyrics by American singers and the Islamic perspective toward moral values on selected songs lyrics by American singers. Subject in this study are song lyrics that consider and containing moral values. The writer used Linda’s theory and also Halstead’s theory. This study is qualitative descriptive because this study aims to make systematic, factual, accurate description of the moral values in the five songs lyric by American singers, namely Dear mr. President by Pink, The climb by Miley Cyrus, Firework by Katty Perry, Blank Space by Taylor Swift and the last Take A Bow by Rihana. The data was analyzed systematically based on the data. The writer used qualitative research and descriptive method qualitative research is a kind of research carried out to understand the phenomena that occur in research subject such as musical note; intonation and meaning of song lyrics by describe it in words and using various scientific method. The result shows that there are six kinds of moral values found on selected songs lyrics by American Singers, they are peace-love, honesty, sincerity, enthusiasm, loyalty and bravery and the Islamic Perspective Toward Moral Values on Selected Songs Lyrics By American Singers, such as sincerity where good president and good relationship, patience where keep trying, do not give up, keep praying, cheating partner, strong people, be a good woman, good household and the struggle, charity love where lower class people and sincerity humbleness.
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