High In the City by Lou Reed Song Details

Lou Reed's ' "High In the City" was released on its scheduled release date, April 1, 1984. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:27. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. There are a total of 11 in the song's album "New Sensations". In this album, this song's track order is #10. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. High In the City is below average in popularity right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

With High In the City by Lou Reed having a BPM of 79 with a half-time of 40 BPM and a double-time of 158 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. 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 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-9.327 dB
Acousticness
52%
Danceability
65%
Energy
64%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
84%
Speechiness
8%
Valence
79%

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ISRC
USRC10000113
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records