Explorer: where does fear live?
The 56 songs with explicit or implied fear among 120 hits in English and Spanish, from 1980 to 2026. Each dot is a song: its position comes from the embedding geometry; its color, from two anonymized readings. Pick a song to see its readings and how the voice moves block by block. Companion to the essay "The Evolution of Songs About Fear". Readers' notes are translated from Spanish.
Period
Language
Threat
The compass of fear
Horizontal: is the threat outside or inside? Vertical: does the voice flee or confront? Standard deviations over the corpus.
All fear songs
Table view of the same data. Weight 1: both readings see fear; 0.5: one.
| Year | Song | Language | Where (readings) | Arc | Outside→inside | Flee→confront |
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