Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana Song Details

Nirvana's ' "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was released on its scheduled release date, September 26, 1991. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. There are a total of 13 in the song's album "Nevermind (Remastered)". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Based on our statistics, Smells Like Teen Spirit's popularity is pretty popular right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

With Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana having a BPM of 147 with a half-time of 74 BPM and a double-time of 294 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 D Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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