What we sing about when we sing about the body

Em and Lo
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Did you know that the eyes are the most common body part sung about in most music genres, from electronica to folk to country to R&B? Even metal! The only exceptions are hip hop, in which la derriere takes the prize, and blues and gospel, where the hands are in the lead (though we're pretty sure the hands are doing different things in each of those genres).

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All this and much much more we learned from this excellent Fleshmap, which is based on a sample of thousands of songs. Also, "clit" appears more often than "titty" in hip hop (yay?), while in heavy metal," clit" and "nuts" are even stevens. And at least one hip hop song out there addresses either the toenail or the elbow. We expected jazz songs to mention the nose more often than alternative music (oh, those jazz sensualists!) but we had never thought to wonder which was the most popular term in alternative music: balls, nuts, or scrotum (answer: balls, though scrotum was in the running). Finally, while we're not quite sure what it says about country music that "balls" beats "breasts," we do think it's kind of sweet that "arms" appears 14 times as often as "breasts." Yeah, we're a little bit country. (Okay, Em's a little bit country, Lo's a little bit rock 'n' roll. That'd be rock, home of the "dong" song.)

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