The Foolish Thing To Do
Heaven 17
Best Of Heaven 17
3:40 January 1, 1992
BPM
129
Key
F Major
Camelot
7B

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The Foolish Thing To Do by Heaven 17 Song Details

Heaven 17's 'The Foolish Thing To Do' had a release date set for January 1, 1992. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:40, the duration of this song is pretty average compared to other songs. This track is safe for children and doesn't appear to contain any foul language, since the "Explicit" tag was not present in this track. The song is number 13 out of 16 in Best Of Heaven 17 by Heaven 17. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, The Foolish Thing To Do's popularity is not that popular right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of The Foolish Thing To Do by Heaven 17 is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 129 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of F Major. This also means that 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
-13.406 dB
Acousticness
66%
Danceability
43%
Energy
33%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
78%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
22%

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ISRC
GBAAA8600305
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records