Smells Like Content by The Books Song Details

The Books's ' "Smells Like Content" was released on its scheduled release date, January 25, 2011. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:42, 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 track order of this song in The Books's "Lost and Safe (Remastered)" album is number 4 out of 11. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. The popularity of Smells Like Content is currently below average in popularity right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Smells Like Content by The Books to be Vivace (lively and fast) because the track has a tempo of 171 BPM, a half-time of 86BPM, and a double-time of 342 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of B Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-10.094 dB
Acousticness
17%
Danceability
70%
Energy
53%
Instrumentalness
4%
Liveness
7%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
9%
Valence
40%

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ISRC
USY6C1118204
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records