Why? by Rick Springfield Song Details

Rick Springfield's ' "Why?" was released on its scheduled release date, January 1, 1972. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:59, 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 song is number 9 out of 10 in Beginnings by Rick Springfield. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. Based on our statistics, Why?'s popularity is not that popular right now. Based on the vibe, this track doesn't seem to be that danceable, however its valence properties can make this some somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Why? by Rick Springfield is Vivace (lively and fast), since this song has a tempo of 159 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with running. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of C Major. 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
-11.472 dB
Acousticness
16%
Danceability
29%
Energy
53%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
81%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
47%

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ISRC
USCA21200729
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records