Contrast And Compare by Bright Eyes Song Details

Bright Eyes's ' "Contrast And Compare" was released on its scheduled release date, November 2, 1998. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:57, 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 Bright Eyes's "Letting Off The Happiness" album is number 3 out of 10. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Contrast And Compare's popularity is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Contrast And Compare by Bright Eyes to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 138 BPM, a half-time of 69BPM, and a double-time of 276 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 3/4.

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
-10.482 dB
Acousticness
38%
Danceability
42%
Energy
38%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
33%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
7%
Valence
40%

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ISRC
US2U60402303
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records