The Way Things Are by Drift Song Details

Drift's ' "The Way Things Are" was released on its scheduled release date, June 18, 2016. 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 10 in the song's album "On the Horizon". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Based on our statistics, The Way Things Are's popularity is unknown right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

With The Way Things Are by Drift having a BPM of 127 with a half-time of 64 BPM and a double-time of 254 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 walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

A♭ Major is the music key of this track. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 4B. So, the perfect camelot match for 4B would be either 4B or 5A. While, 5B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 1B and a high energy boost can either be 6B or 11B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 4A or 3B will give you a low energy drop, 7B would be a moderate one, and 2B or 9B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 1A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.594 dB
Acousticness
5%
Danceability
80%
Energy
78%
Instrumentalness
88%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
7%
Valence
54%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records