What Is Love?
Howard Jones
Human's Lib
6:33 June 12, 1984
BPM
141
Key
D♭ Major
Camelot
3B

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What Is Love? by Howard Jones Song Details

Howard Jones's 'What Is Love?' had a release date set for June 12, 1984. 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 Howard Jones's "Human's Lib" album is number 2 out of 11. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, What Is Love?'s popularity is not that popular right now. Although the overall vibe is very danceable, it does project more negative sounds.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of What Is Love? by Howard Jones to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 141 BPM, a half-time of 70BPM, and a double-time of 282 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, jogging or cycling, 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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Popularity
Loudness
-8.264 dB
Acousticness
55%
Danceability
72%
Energy
65%
Instrumentalness
33%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
38%

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ISRC
GBBZZ1000213
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records