What Is Love by Barrett Strong Song Details

On January 1, 2004, the song "What Is Love" was released by Barrett Strong. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:29. This song does not appear to have any foul language. What Is Love's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. There are a total of 22 in the song's album "The Collection". In this album, this song's track order is #22. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, What Is Love's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

With What Is Love by Barrett Strong having a BPM of 127 with a half-time of 64 BPM and a double-time of 254 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

F Major is the music key of this track. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-7.815 dB
Acousticness
28%
Danceability
77%
Energy
62%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
87%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
97%

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ISRC
USMO10300888
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records