You Know What They're Writing About by Van Morrison Song Details

Van Morrison's ' "You Know What They're Writing About" was released on its scheduled release date, August 1, 1979. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:49, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Van Morrison's "Into the Music (Bonus Track Version)" album is number 10 out of 12. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, You Know What They're Writing About's popularity is not that 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 You Know What They're Writing About by Van Morrison to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 137 BPM, a half-time of 68BPM, and a double-time of 274 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 C Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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