I Don't Know Why by Starship Song Details

Starship's ' "I Don't Know Why" was released on its scheduled release date, July 27, 1987. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:08, 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 11 in the song's album "No Protection". In this album, this song's track order is #7. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, I Don't Know Why's popularity is below average in popularity right now. Since there is more of a neutral sound being played, this makes the track somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With I Don't Know Why by Starship having a BPM of 144 with a half-time of 72 BPM and a double-time of 288 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might go great with jogging or cycling. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A Major. 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
-5.071 dB
Acousticness
9%
Danceability
50%
Energy
75%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
92%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
42%

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ISRC
USRC19900906
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records