Defiant by Brian Eno, David Byrne Song Details

Brian Eno, David Byrne's ' "Defiant" was released on its scheduled release date, 1981. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:41, 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 Brian Eno, David Byrne's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" album is number 16 out of 18. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, Defiant is currently not that popular. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Defiant by Brian Eno, David Byrne to be Moderato (at a moderate speed) because the track has a tempo of 116 BPM, a half-time of 58BPM, and a double-time of 232 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is moderate. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A Major is the music key of this track. This also means that 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
-6.374 dB
Acousticness
74%
Danceability
57%
Energy
97%
Instrumentalness
72%
Liveness
16%
Loudness
89%
Speechiness
11%
Valence
52%

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ISRC
USNO10589408
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records