Online rental marketplace Airbnb launched its new logo and a redesign of its website this week, but it's the logo, and what it reminds people of, that's getting all the attention. People being people, there have been lots of comparisons of the new shape, officially named the Bélo, to male and female genitalia and other, generally silly anatomical comparisons. There are so many jokes about the logo that there's even a whole Tumblr devoted to riffing on what the logo looks like. According to an article at Recode though, Airbnb co-founder and CTO Nathan Blecharczyk is pretty much fine with people laughing at the logo. That makes sense, since even if people are laughing, they are definitely paying attention and talking about the company, arguably the only thing that matters.
But the hilarity hasn't stopped yet. The new logo inspired singer and comedian Brett Domino to make an entire a capella song about what the Airbnb logo reminds him of. He actually does all nine vocal and percussion bits all by himself, which is pretty impressive, even if you find the subject matter juvenile. Watch his "A Song About The New Airbnb Logo" below and decide for yourself if the Bélo is an inadvertant sexual symbol, or just the subject of an online Rorschach test that everyone has revealed their own inner selves to.
