Fleshmap graphs out a breakdown of mentions of body parts in the lyrics of songs across genres, which is pretty interesting. Aside from this being massively questionable as ‘research’ (what database of songs did they use? how did they determine genre? what were the years of publication of the songs, and from what countries? why is it that it’s sort of like ‘details of many types of music made by white people but all music from black people it totally just hip-hop or R+B and here’s our proof that all they sing about is butts, which is underlined by our using totally white bread stock photos instead of something neutral like illustrations?’ what could this indicate other than what is ‘valued’ in the genre? did we count words twice in one song, throwing off songs with a more traditional verse-chorus-verse structure, which is also something that varies by genre?) but before I get carried away again — look! Pretty graphs! And funny little photos of body parts!
