Hard To Explain by The Strokes Song Details

The Strokes's ' "Hard To Explain" was released on its scheduled release date, July 30, 2001. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:44, 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 The Strokes's "Is This It" album is number 8 out of 11. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Hard To Explain is fairly popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Hard To Explain by The Strokes to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 82 BPM, a half-time of 41BPM, and a double-time of 164 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of G Major. This also means that 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
-6.281 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
41%
Energy
68%
Instrumentalness
85%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
90%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
62%

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ISRC
USRC10100768
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records