Visual artists Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg 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.They called this project called Listen.
“Listen investigates the relationship between language and the body,” is the project’s manifesto. “Verbal manifestations of human physicality in music, poetry and religion are distilled to their basic elements.” By presenting those elements in such an intuitive way, Viégas and Wattenberg bring data to life graphically, so that it can be grasped in seconds.Here are visuals by genre
Alternative
Blues
Country
Electronica
Folk
Gospel
Heavy Metal
Hip Hop
Jazz
Rock
R and B
Looks like almost all the genres have eyes in common R&B has highest body part usage in lyrics and Gospel the least body parts.To me sampling of data is limited to english language and all genres not covered
