When You Were My Baby by The Magnetic Fields Song Details

The Magnetic Fields's ' "When You Were My Baby" was released on its scheduled release date, January 23, 1995. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:41. This song does not appear to have any foul language. When You Were My Baby's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. There are a total of 20 in the song's album "The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees (Remastered)". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. In terms of popularity, When You Were My Baby is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With When You Were My Baby by The Magnetic Fields having a BPM of 117 with a half-time of 58 BPM and a double-time of 234 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Moderato (at a moderate speed) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall moderate tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of F Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-4.956 dB
Acousticness
20%
Danceability
45%
Energy
53%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
92%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
58%

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ISRC
USMRG1607501
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records