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Now that the page has grown, I see that yes, people like writing songs which fixate on body parts. However, the lack of clear criteria for exclusion was leading to an open-ended list. I've clarified those criteria and removed some songs that failed to pass. If the list remains ill-defined, then it
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Ludicris dropping f-bombs every other word in 2005. So you'd have to take that into consideration as well. A thousand Wikipedians on a thousand computers could take a thousand years editing this topic and not see the end of it.
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