This dissertation introduces the polygonal model, a paradigm for the analysis of translation of popular music centered around four parameters: melody, singability, form, and sense. Translations of songs can be evaluated with the same criteria, which allows for a quick way to visualize the translator s mistakes and successes. The model is tested with the analyses of commented translations of three songs: Highway 61 Revisited and All Along the Watchtower, written by Bob Dylan, and Idioteque, written by Radiohead. A similarity influenced why those two artists were chosen: Dylan started out as a folk musician playing acoustic instruments and then went electric; Radiohead had a rock n roll sound, but then released albums with a heavy electronic influence. In order to think about performance and the artistic influences from each song, the three translations were recorded.