Body Parts Can't Have Sounds

About

"Body Parts Can't Have Sounds" / Ass: is a caption meme format and catchphrase used together with music videos to insult that music by implying it "sounds like ass." The caption format gained virality in November 2024 among fans of popular pop artists such as Charlie XCX, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Gracie Abrams as they used it to feud with each other on social media.

Origin

On November 12th, 2024, X^[1] user @salvatorestf posted captioned a music video of Taylor Swift's song "Fortnite" featuring Post Malone, captioning it, ""body parts can’t have sounds" / ass:". The post, which humorously implied that the song sounded very bad ("like ass"), gained over 950 reposts and 12,000 likes, with the original uploader of the video setting their profile to private.

Spread

Later on November 12th, 2024, X^[2] user @eilishormy posted a clip of a performance by artist Gracie Abrams with the same caption, with the post gaining over 1,900 reposts and 27,000 likes in two days.

In the following days, the caption achieved viral popularity on X / Twitter as fans of various artists used it against feuding fandoms, most notably fans of singers Charlie XCX and Billie Eilish using it against Taylor Swift and Gracie Adams, and vice versa.

For example, on November 12th, X^[3] user @aidan7501 posted a clip from Charlie XCX's song "Guess" featuring Billie Eilish with the caption, with the post gaining over 250 reposts and 2,700 likes in two days (shown below).

On November 13th, 2024, X^[4] user @clubratt posted a music video for Charlie XCX's song "360" with its audio replaced with Gracie Abrams' song " I Love You I'm Sorry." The post (shown below) garnered over 4,100 reposts and 53,000 likes in one day.

The caption and its modified versions saw more use on X / Twitter in mid-November 2024.

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