What It Takes by Aerosmith Song Details

Aerosmith's ' "What It Takes" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1994. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 4 out of 15 in Big Ones by Aerosmith. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, What It Takes's popularity is average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of What It Takes by Aerosmith is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 143 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with jogging or cycling. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

C Major is the music key of this track. 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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Popularity
Loudness
-6.423 dB
Acousticness
3%
Danceability
52%
Energy
74%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
40%
Loudness
89%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
46%

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ISRC
USIR10000463
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records