It Doesn't Have to Be This Way by The Blow Monkeys Song Details

On 1987, the song "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way" was released by The Blow Monkeys. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:04, 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. There are a total of 15 in the song's album "She Was Only A Grocer's Daughter". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United Kingdom. In terms of popularity, It Doesn't Have to Be This Way is currently average in popularity. 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 It Doesn't Have to Be This Way by The Blow Monkeys having a BPM of 97 with a half-time of 48 BPM and a double-time of 194 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 11B. So, the perfect camelot match for 11B would be either 11B or 12A. While, 12B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 8B and a high energy boost can either be 1B or 6B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 11A or 10B will give you a low energy drop, 2B would be a moderate one, and 9B or 4B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 8A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-6.166 dB
Acousticness
33%
Danceability
66%
Energy
82%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
20%
Loudness
90%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
85%

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ISRC
GBARL8700037
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records