Barriers by Soft Cell Song Details

"Barriers" by Soft Cell had its release date on September 7, 2018. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. The track order of this song in Soft Cell's "Keychains & Snowstorms – The Soft Cell Story" album is number 7 out of 128. In terms of popularity, Barriers is currently not that popular. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Barriers by Soft Cell to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 97 BPM, a half-time of 48BPM, and a double-time of 194 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of C Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.189 dB
Acousticness
65%
Danceability
20%
Energy
35%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
11%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records