Comments on: Rap is all about the booty

Rap is all about the booty

graventy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:06:54 -0800

The Frequency of Body Parts in Songs, by genre. NSFW

The other links on Fleshmap are also fascinating. Heat maps of where people liked touch/be touched. Locations by size where people like to touch/be touched. via waxy

By: graventy

graventy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:07:32 -0800

I highly doubt all those rap references to "head" were talking about the head pictured.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:14:52 -0800

But isn't that booty perhaps a bit too... too... Caucasian? Just sayin'.

By: dopamine

dopamine — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:21:03 -0800

you forgot the "DUH" tag on this post.

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:24:48 -0800

What's this -- donkeys appearing in 0.62% of gospel songs?

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:25:24 -0800

Jesus rode on one once, as I recall.

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:01:36 -0800

flapjax at midnite writes "Jesus rode on one once, as I recall." A Tyrannosaurus rex, you mean.

By: schroedinger

schroedinger — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:11:13 -0800

That map of desire thing by size is pretty interesting, and definitely backs up common knowledge about the necessity of foreplay for women. The "be touched" map indicates dudes pretty much just want their Mr. Johnson attended to, while women have a wider variety of places they enjoy being caressed.

By: Schlimmbesserung

Schlimmbesserung — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:20:38 -0800

I like big hands and I cannot lie? Also: on the map of desire, apparently we are not only a predominantly right-handed species, but also right-breasted and right-assed. Huh.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:24:17 -0800

A quarter (23.64%) of all hip-hop songs sampled include the word 'ass'? A quarter of all body-part words mentioned in a sampled hip-hop song are the word 'ass'?

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:54:54 -0800

I don't think it means they're talking about ass. I'm a grown-ass man I ain't calling nobody delicious.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:45:18 -0800

Damn, they don't include dancehall. I was looking forward to investigating pum pum/batty ratios.

By: qvantamon

qvantamon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:01:55 -0800

From the locations by size link - Select size of desire, woman, front. Now alternate between touch and be touched. Seems like people like to touch the right boob much more than women like their right boob to be touched. No such disparity on the left boob. Where's the LOLBUTTS tag?

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:47:28 -0800

Wait until I show Mrs. Maxwelton she's wrong.

By: PontifexPrimus

PontifexPrimus — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:57:49 -0800

schroedinger: "That map of desire thing by size is pretty interesting, and definitely backs up common knowledge about the necessity of foreplay for women. The "be touched" map indicates dudes pretty much just want their Mr. Johnson attended to, while women have a wider variety of places they enjoy being caressed." Related (NSFW) comic book cover.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:11:21 -0800

Useless, as it doesn't seem to distinguish between just regular thighs and Americanthighs, nor does it include her motor.

By: tybeet

tybeet — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:27:48 -0800

The method section is pretty weak.

By: peeedro

peeedro — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:28:19 -0800

Chuck Berry foiled them with clever double entendre.

By: Mastercheddaar

Mastercheddaar — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:38:05 -0800

I guess rap is an ass man.....

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:52:39 -0800

I refuse to believe that "booty" appeared in only 0.38% of surveyed R&B songs because, in my experience, most R&B songs are actually called "Feelin' On Yo' Booty."

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:33:39 -0800

I don't know whether it counts as a mondegreen or not, but it was years before I realized that Madonna wasn't actually singing: "Like a Virgin, Touched on the crotch for the very first time, Like a Vir-hir-hi-her-gin, I feel your hard meat, Next to mine..."

By: Freon

Freon — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:42:36 -0800

Can we get one of these for MeMusic? We'd just need a giant dick and a giant fist.

By: Herodios

Herodios — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:46:44 -0800

Wow, more beautiful information and dada data . I love Fridays on (m)f. toenail is in 0.09% of songs (all genres). Well, that's good to know. Their methodology doesn't indicate how they handled metaphorical usage of body terms. I mean, how many countable terms are there in:

You can say 'I pricked my finger', but you can't say 'I fingered my prick'.

(tip of the topknot to the late George Carlin) . . . Oh, nevermind, here it is: Note: Some body words have multiple meanings. For example, the word "back" tends to be used more as an adverb and adjective than as a body part. In cases like this, we do not treat the term as a body part; it shows up on the rebus as a gray dot.

By: mandal

mandal — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:38:29 -0800

Mrs. Landers was a health nut...

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:00:55 -0800

"Mondegreen" I learned a new word. Cool.

By: jtron

jtron — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:42:22 -0800

I guess it makes sense that Gospel is the least diverse in terms of number of body parts mentioned, what with it being about the Spirit and all. Interesting, though, that Folk is second most-diverse after Rap.

By: sergeant sandwich

sergeant sandwich — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:06:44 -0800

what, no humps?

By: Kid Charlemagne

Kid Charlemagne — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:10:18 -0800

I want titles damnit! If I click on a toenail icon I want a pop up list of toenail mentioning songs. They gave us hypertext as if it made up for the lack of flying cars, and now they're not even bothering.