Frequency uses popular music as a lens to explore how categorization, technology, and language both reflect and shape our understanding of culture, identity, and emotion over time.

It blends cultural research, AI-driven text analysis, and interactive storytelling to help users see how music both reflects and influences how we frame the world.

We analyze lyrics from the Top 10 songs of each decade (1870s–2020s) — not just to track musical trends, but to examine how themes like love, place, emotion, and self-expression evolve, and how those changes mirror deeper societal shifts.

At the heart of Frequency is a core question:

“If music helps shape how we see ourselves and the world, what can it teach us about the categories we inherit or resist?”