School Boy
Big Mama Thornton
Ball n' Chain
4:30 January 1, 1989
BPM
103
Key
A♭ Major
Camelot
4B

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School Boy by Big Mama Thornton Song Details

Big Mama Thornton's 'School Boy' had a release date set for January 1, 1989. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 7 out of 16 in Ball n' Chain by Big Mama Thornton. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, School Boy is currently not that popular. 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 School Boy by Big Mama Thornton is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 103 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-11.985 dB
Acousticness
61%
Danceability
55%
Energy
25%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
80%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
34%

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ISRC
USAP38930507
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records