Tell Me When My Light Turns Green by Dexys Midnight Runners Song Details

On May 20, 1996, the song "Tell Me When My Light Turns Green" was released by Dexys Midnight Runners. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:44, 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 track order of this song in Dexys Midnight Runners's "It Was Like This" album is number 2 out of 18. Based on our statistics, Tell Me When My Light Turns Green's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Tell Me When My Light Turns Green by Dexys Midnight Runners to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 134 BPM, a half-time of 67BPM, and a double-time of 268 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

B Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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