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This study aims to analyze the metaphors in Whitney Houston’s selected songlyrics. There are three selected songs entitled Greatest Love of All, I Will AlwaysLove You, and I Have Nothing. The Greatest Love of All is a mashup single,while the other two are produced for The Bodyguards album. The songs chosenare Whitney Houston’s top chart songs on the Billboard Top 100. The researchquestion is “What types of metaphors are found in Whitney Houston’s selectedsong lyrics?” This study employed content analysis or document analysis. Therewere two sources used in this study to find out the types of metaphors in WhitneyHouston’s selected song lyrics. The primary object is three selected WhitneyHouston’s song lyrics. The secondary objects are the theories and informationabout metaphors and the structure of song lyrics. Theories used are from Lakoff &Johnson (1980) and Gioia & Kennedy (1999). In addition, the data collected inthis study was validated by the experts. The results show that there are three typesof metaphors used in Whitney Houston’s selected song lyrics. The metaphorswere conventional metaphors, mixed metaphors, and new metaphors.Conventional and mixed metaphors were found in all selected song lyrics. Theywere respectively 13 conventional and 9 mixed metaphors found in the selectedsong lyrics. On the other hand, the new metaphor was not found in I Will AlwaysLove You song lyrics.