This watchfulness based on mysterious phenomenon of a song that cause for whoever
that hear it can do suicide act, that is "Gloomy Sunday". It happen at various countries
outside Indonesia, at Hungarian especially. Even the creator also do the suicide after this
song explodes became his first hit. Along with case quantity of suicides that happen because
the consequence of "Gloomy Sunday", then it had became a phenomenon in the entire world,
belong in Indonesia. This matter also become pros and contra among Indonesia society, so
that to make various of reactions and negative conceptions of this song.
Method that used in this watchfulness is qualitative descriptive, where in this
watchfulness interpreting in detail of " Gloomy Sunday" song lyric by Rezso Seress. This
watchfulness used Saussure semiotic method which to accentuate to sign, and that are
signifier (penanda) and signified (petanda), form (bentuk) and content (isi), langue (bahasa)
and parole (tuturan, ujaran), synchronic (sinkronik) and diachronic (diakronik), and then
syntagmatic (sintagmatik) and associative (paradigmatik).
Based on this “Gloomy Sunday” song lyric analysis is describe about in a gloomy
Sunday had happen something unexpected that her boyfriend had passed away to leave her.
After the death of her boyfriend,her life became so gloomy and her life that through is full
with the shadows of her beloved boyfriend. Then that person also through her daily day with
full of unbearable restless. At last, that person make a decision to end everything with
suicide. The decision had made just for meet and can be with her beloved boyfriend. That is
all only happen in the gloomy Sunday. The conclusion of this “Gloomy Sunday” song lyric is
somebody that to experience the thing above that is mean depression
