The theme of this song is universal — you don’t need to be a Steve to feel it. It speaks to existential questions: Do other people experience life in the way I do? Do we all share the same doubts and uncertainties about life decisions? Am I making the most of my life?
Those questions offer little traction outside of a philosophy class or a dorm-room hallway. Hey Steve makes it human-sized simply by framing the questions as if there are a community of Steves in the world:
“Am I only Steve with a voice in my head?”
“Go Stevie Go Stevie, be the best Stevie you can be. Run Stevie, Run Stevie, do what you can! And if it doesn’t work, just try it again.”
In this song, the Steves relate to each other as a common group. The lens has zoomed in, the connections are closer — and as a result, we are drawn in to ponder the big questions. We are all a Steve.
These are the reasons why we created a data visualization platform that makes text and images first-class elements in data storytelling. We know that you can’t bring in specific examples and human-connection only through interactive charts. We also enabled drill-down as a default because when people look at data, they almost always want to be able to zoom in to see the details that are more actionable.
