Why by The Cats Song Details

The Cats's ' "Why" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1969. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:59, 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 16 in Colour Us Gold by The Cats. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from Netherlands. Why is average in popularity right now. Based on the vibe, this track doesn't seem to be that danceable, however its valence properties can make this some somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Why by The Cats is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 79 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. 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
-7.323 dB
Acousticness
4%
Danceability
37%
Energy
56%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
27%
Loudness
88%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
48%

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ISRC
NLA270300181
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records