Bad Idea by Ben Folds Five Song Details

Ben Folds Five's ' "Bad Idea" was released on its scheduled release date, January 13, 1998. The duration of This song is about two minutes long, specifically at 2:07. This song does not appear to have any foul language. Bad Idea's duration is considered a little bit shorter than the average duration of a typical track. There are a total of 16 in the song's album "Naked Baby Photos". In this album, this song's track order is #8. The popularity of Bad Idea is currently not that popular right now. The mood doesn't appear to be that danceable, but it still produces a high amount of positive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Bad Idea by Ben Folds Five having a BPM of 189 with a half-time of 94 BPM and a double-time of 378 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Presto (very, very fast) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

E♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 5B. So, the perfect camelot match for 5B would be either 5B or 6A. While, 6B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 2B and a high energy boost can either be 7B or 12B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 5A or 4B will give you a low energy drop, 8B would be a moderate one, and 3B or 10B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 2A allows you to change the mood.

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