Don't Believe What You Read
The Boomtown Rats
A Tonic For The Troops
3:07 1978
BPM
91
Key
E Major
Camelot
12B

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Don't Believe What You Read by The Boomtown Rats Song Details

The Boomtown Rats's ' "Don't Believe What You Read" was released on its scheduled release date, 1978. The duration of This song is about 3 minutes long, at 3:07. Based on our data, This song appears to be safe for all ages and is not considered explicit. This track is about the average length of a typical track. The song is number 5 out of 14 in A Tonic For The Troops by The Boomtown Rats. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. In terms of popularity, Don't Believe What You Read is currently not that popular. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Don't Believe What You Read by The Boomtown Rats is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 91 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. This song can go great with yoga or pilates. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of E Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-3.952 dB
Acousticness
6%
Danceability
44%
Energy
91%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
37%
Loudness
93%
Speechiness
9%
Valence
63%

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ISRC
GBF080300494
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records