How It Is by Aztec Camera Song Details

Aztec Camera's ' "How It Is" was released on its scheduled release date, 1990. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:00, 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. There are a total of 9 in the song's album "Stray (US Internet Release)". In this album, this song's track order is #6. Based on our statistics, How It Is's popularity is not that popular right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

With How It Is by Aztec Camera having a BPM of 130 with a half-time of 65 BPM and a double-time of 260 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast 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

C Major is the music key of this track. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-12.344 dB
Acousticness
3%
Danceability
63%
Energy
84%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
25%
Loudness
79%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
49%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records