Play For Today by Belle and Sebastian Song Details

Belle and Sebastian's ' "Play For Today" was released on its scheduled release date, January 19, 2015. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. The track order of this song in Belle and Sebastian's "Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance" album is number 10 out of 12. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Play For Today's popularity is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Play For Today by Belle and Sebastian to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 125 BPM, a half-time of 62BPM, and a double-time of 250 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

C Major is the music key of this track. This also means that 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
-7.885 dB
Acousticness
15%
Danceability
49%
Energy
76%
Instrumentalness
1%
Liveness
29%
Loudness
87%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
52%

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ISRC
USMTD1505914
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records