The Message Analysis of Lady Gaga’s Song Entitled “Born This Way” Wati Purnama Sari Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Gunadarma wp_sari@staff.gunadarma.ac.id ABSTRACT The research aim is: (1) To find out what the message is in Lady Gaga’s song entitled “Born This Way”. A descriptive qualitative method is used in this research. The source of data for this research is a song from Lady Gaga’s second Album “Born This Way” entitled “Born This Way”. In collecting data, the researcher tries to read the song lyric first, then analyzes the song lyric related to the research scopes and writes related lyrics found in a list as the data. The data is rechecked once more and analyzed by using the art theory advocated by Adorno. The result of the research is Lady Gaga’s song entitled “Born This Way” portrayed her social critique to American society about their attitude toward LGBT and other minor communities there. Through the song she wanted to convey that American have to accept LGBT and rise a big awareness toward LGBT and minor communities. Besides, they have to stop violence and attacks against LGBT and minor communities too as those communities are also human who have right to live safely in American society. Keywords: art, song lyric, Lady Gaga, Adorno INTRODUCTION In this era, people tend to express themselves by many ways. They really love to express their feelings, emotions, opinions or interests as their self-actualization in society. Art is one of many ways people try to express themselves in society. Many kinds of art exist such as, performance art, visual art, literature, etc. Then, the most popular art used by people to express their feeling is literature especially song lyrics. Song lyrics which are known as another form of