I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by X Song Details

X's ' "I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts" was released on its scheduled release date, September 6, 1983. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:15, 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 X's "More Fun in the New World" album is number 7 out of 13. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts'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 I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts by X 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

The music key of this track is A Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-7.027 dB
Acousticness
44%
Danceability
55%
Energy
69%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
88%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
45%

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ISRC
USFP71869807
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records