Why Can't We Be Friends by Smash Mouth Song Details

Smash Mouth's ' "Why Can't We Be Friends" was released on its scheduled release date, July 8, 1997. 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 12 out of 16 in Fush Yu Mang (20th Anniversary Edition) by Smash Mouth. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, Why Can't We Be Friends is currently average in popularity. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Why Can't We Be Friends by Smash Mouth is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 100 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 A♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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