Representation of Metropolitan Youths in The Lyrics of AC/DC Band

Abstract

This research centers on the issues of representation of the metropolitan youths in the lyrics of the Australian Rock and Roll Band AC/DC. How the particular signs gain the meaning and how they represent the particular culture or sub-culture have been central to the analysis of the lyrics. This research traces that the totally new sub-culture of the metropolitan youths is emerging in the cities around the world and the notion of culture as the continuation of the tradition is losing its ground rapidly. The new sub-culture of the youths is characterized in the lyrics as the journey to fall; every value is falling rapidly with the cultural conducts of the youths of the metropolitans. The new sub-cultural trend of the youths is influenced by hippie dress ups, grown up hair, obsession to music, drink and sex, rejection of the authorities and traditional profession and lifestyle and the termination of the school studies to spend carefree life. The youths have the apt realization that the world of metropolitan is cruel and cold for them, so, they appear wicked while dealing with the world. They are lonely and the sex in red-light areas is unable to reduce their loneliness. The band has, by the verbal representation of these youths and even their dreams, manipulated as well as warned the metropolitan youths in their lyrics.