g is the backbone to its genre, why would a song that has a beat that is clearly hip hop be played on an alternative rock station? Maybe the lyrics of the song are determining this particular songs genre.The song The Bad Touch, has very sexual lyrics that clearly meet standards of sexual content that is commonly found in both genres of music. Many of the songs lyrics are innuendos that make references to sex, you and me baby aint nothing but mammals so lets do it like they do on the discovery channel. With a closer examination of the lyrics it is apparent that most of the songs lyrics are being used in a comedic fashion. The use of comedy in lyrics is not typical of either genre of music, and does not conform to the standards of almost any music genre. The next unit of analysis of this song is how are the lyrics presented.5With alternative rock most of the lyrics are presented by singing or sometimes screaming the lyrics. Hip hop usually chants, or more commonly raps the lyrics with occasional singing. The song, The Bad Touch has a chorus that is sung, while the rest of the song is presented in more of a rap form. The song for the most part seems very similar to song that would commonly be found in the music genre of hip hop. The beat of the song is electronically produced with at fast and heavy beat. The lyrics for the most part are very sexual, and are presented in a fashion that is more similar to rap. With the absents of the guitar, and the heavy use of electronic sound machines make this song a very hip hop sounding song. This seem like the answer the research paper would be quite obvious, but this is not always the fact. There are still a few variables that need to be looked at before determining the exact genre of this song.The use of humor is very prevalent in the lyrics of the song, they are used almost mockingly at the hip hop genre. The explicit sexual lyric seem to be over exaggerated forms of hip hop lyrics. If ...
