Black & White by Janis Ian Song Details

Janis Ian's ' "Black & White" was released on its scheduled release date, September 16, 1997. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The track order of this song in Janis Ian's "Hunger" album is number 1 out of 12. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Black & White is currently not that popular. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Black & White by Janis Ian to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 95 BPM, a half-time of 48BPM, and a double-time of 190 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. Activities such as, yoga or pilates, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of D♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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