Bruce Hornsby song theme trajectories

An interactive view of themes across fifteen of Bruce Hornsby’s studio albums. Use the filters to isolate one or more themes, compare multiple albums, or narrow the view. Then explore the heatmap and the line graph separately, isolate specific themes, focus on one or more albums, or highlight the theme of your choice. The percentages show how many of a record’s songs feature that theme – e.g. 11% of the songs on The Way It Is (as determined by the Bruuuce.com community) cover “Social justice, inequality and societal critique”. Have a play around!