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Uncovering Parts of the Body in Song
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Two IBM researchers have analyzed over 10,000 songs to find out which parts of the human body were mentioned the most and broke down the resulting data by genre. Across all of the categories, the eyes are most frequently mentioned body part -- with the exceptions of hip hop. Researcher and artist Martin Wattenberg joins us to explain his research.
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This is ridiculous......
Did he mean chivalry?
Hello, Samm Bennett here. Greetings from deepest Tokyo, to John and anyone else reading these comments. Regarding body parts in music, I'd like to direct you to a post I made at MetaFilter a few days ago (under my username there, "flapjax at midnite") about that very subject. It's essentially a collection of links to YouTube videos of body parts songs. I posted about 30 links originally, and then in typical MetaFilter fashion many other users added more links to the thread. It turned into a pretty good compendium of body parts songs! The thread is here:
http://www.metafilter.com/75013/All-the-Things-You-Are
By the way, I've made lots of posts, mostly music-related, to MetaFilter over the past couple of years, many of which will no doubt be of interest to music lovers of one stripe or another. There's a directory of those posts here:
http://www.metafilter.com/activity/39010/posts/mefi/
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