Mood Choice Analysis on Bane’s Final Album Entitled “Don’t Wait Up”

Abstract

Since songs can be media to express song writers’ messages, some researchers have conducted research to find out the message inside the particular songs. This study uses songs from Bane a Hardcore Punk band from the United States of America. The album consists of ten songs, and it is used by the band to say goodbye to their listeners before the band breaks up. This research aims to find out what is the main mood choice used by the band and how it corresponds with the purpose of this final album. The mood choices in this study are analyzed by seeing the order of the Subject and Finite of the clauses. After analyzing the order of Subject and Finite then the moods are classified into declarative, interrogative or imperative. The mood choices are naturally associated with its speech functions. In this study also find mood which is not associated with the function in common, it is called non-congruent mood. This study also identified the non-congruent mood on the songs there are declarative-command, declarative-offer, declarative-question, imperative-statement, imperative-offer and interrogative-statement. To sum up this study, the mood that is mostly used is declarative. The declarative mood which has function as statement do not match with the purpose of the album. This album’s purpose is to say goodbye which is in line with interrogative clause with offer as function. Although the offer function appeared only 15 times in this album but still the function play an important role in this album.