Infographic: frequency of body parts mentioned in various music genres

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Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg collected thousands of song lyrics and created a chart that shows how often certain body parts are mentioned. The chart is organized by music genre.

The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre. Click on a genre name to see a close-up that shows exactly what words were used.

Eyes, hands, and heads dominate most genres. The exception is Hip Hop, where asses are the favorite body part.

Most of the genres contain images that are NSFW.

Frequency of body parts mentioned in various music genres