Contradictions by The Rats Song Details

The Rats's ' "Contradictions" was released on its scheduled release date, October 15, 1980. With This song being less than two minutes long, at 1:57, we are fairly confident that this song is not explicit and is safe for all ages. Based on the duration of this song, this song duration is much smaller than the average song duration. The track order of this song in The Rats's "Intermittent Signals" album is number 4 out of 16. In terms of popularity, Contradictions is currently not that popular. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Contradictions by The Rats to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 90 BPM, a half-time of 45BPM, and a double-time of 180 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 has a musical 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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