What Do You Do by The Proclaimers Song Details

The Proclaimers's 'What Do You Do' had a release date set for January 1, 1988. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:38, 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 12 in the song's album "Sunshine on Leith". In this album, this song's track order is #9. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. What Do You Do is below average in popularity right now. 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

With What Do You Do by The Proclaimers having a BPM of 76 with a half-time of 38 BPM and a double-time of 152 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Adagio (slowly with great expression) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of G Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-15.08 dB
Acousticness
65%
Danceability
58%
Energy
25%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
75%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
24%

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ISRC
GBAYK8800087
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records