Let Science Tell You Which Songs Are Bangers, And Which Ones Aren’t

Bangers. They are everywhere in music, but are they like pornography? Do you know them when you hear them? Don’t you wish science would take the decision of whether or not something is a banger out of your hands? Good news! Bangers have been codified.

As Motherboard reports, a 19-year-old developer in Utah named Derek Dapp has crafted a website that will tell you whether or not something is, in fact, a banger. Dapp used Tom Haverford, Aziz Ansari’s character from Parks and Recreation who is responsible for the creation of DJ Roomba, as his muse. As such, a banger was defined by “beats per minute, number and dopeness of drops, and a complete absence of acoustic instruments.”

Dapp then went to Echonest, an audio fingerprinting service that places like Spotify use to generate stations, to get a sense of the “energy, danceability, tempo, and acousticness” of a song. He then compared it to a collection of known, Platonic ideal bangers. Thus, IsItaBangr was born. You can now find out if hundreds of songs are, in fact, bangers. Now you won’t look like a fool the next time you are at a party and asked, “Man, is this a banger or what?”

To expedite this process, here is a brief list of songs that are, and are not, bangers:

The more you know.

(Via Motherboard)

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