It Was Written Down by Toots & The Maytals Song Details

On 1973, the song "It Was Written Down" was released by Toots & The Maytals. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:40, 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 song is number 8 out of 8 in Funky Kingston by Toots & The Maytals. 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, It Was Written Down is currently not that popular. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of It Was Written Down by Toots & The Maytals is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 93 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 B Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-13.108 dB
Acousticness
27%
Danceability
85%
Energy
48%
Instrumentalness
1%
Liveness
6%
Loudness
78%
Speechiness
12%
Valence
91%

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ISRC
USIR20300096
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records