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What is this song about?
A woman meets a man's advances by naming herself the prize, warning she would put him through hell, and telling him not to reach for too much.
What Might This Song Do to the Listener?
An individual who plays Greedy on repeat adopts self-desirability as a settled fact and a bargaining position. Interest from another person is met with a warning about the cost of pursuit, and the narrator's own appetite for herself is offered as the standard. Attraction becomes leverage.
Repeated exposure strengthens refusal, which serves a listener under pressure from an unwanted suitor. It also trains the treatment of another's interest as material for display, since the reward attaches to being sought. The individual measures worth by who is asking.
What Might This Song Do to a Society?
A society that circulates Greedy establishes desirability as a form of standing. Communal singing frames pursuit as a hazard for the pursuer and converts refusal into a demonstration of rank, with persistence answered by a promise of difficulty. Courtship becomes a contest of position.
At the population level, the capacity to decline an advance grows, and so does the incentive to be seen declining. Interest between people acquires a price. Populations negotiate attraction as standing.
Dogma Reference
Dogma Reference is a metadata tag, not a score modifier. It flags only when a specific doctrinal framework (Christian, Islamic, Karmic/Dharmic, Institutional) is load-bearing — when worshipping inside, proclaiming, or asserting that doctrine is what the song is for. Naming the sacred does not fire the tag, and neither does a passing scriptural allusion used to illustrate a point in an otherwise secular song. Doing the doctrine does.
Audience Vibe
The compass reads the lyrics. The Audience Vibe reads the people — the general place the audience thinks the compass should be pointing for this song, not a raw tally of votes. Two needles, one song; the gap between them is the data.
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How the Audience Vibe is calculated
The needle is the compass score nudged by the crowd — never a raw tally. Every "push higher," "push lower," and "agree" vote is recombined into one position each time someone votes:
- Direction comes from the split. Only the gap between higher and lower votes moves the needle. "Agree" votes pull it back toward the compass score.
- It takes a crowd. Early votes move it gently — a handful shifts it only a point or two. The more lopsided the crowd, the further it goes.
- It's capped. The audience can pull a song at most 15 points off the compass score, either direction. No pile-on can push it past that.
So a single "push lower" on a song with few votes moves the needle a little (often a point or two), not all the way down — and it can never run away.
Audience Resonance
The compass reads the song; the Audience Vibe reads whether the crowd agrees. Audience Resonance reads something else: what the song actually did to the people who lived with it, and whether the lift it gave was real. See the whole map →
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