Looking for You (I Was) by Patti Smith Song Details

Patti Smith's ' "Looking for You (I Was)" was released on its scheduled release date, 1988. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:06, 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 song is number 7 out of 10 in Dream Of Life by Patti Smith. Based on our statistics, Looking for You (I Was)'s popularity is below average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Looking for You (I Was) by Patti Smith is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 137 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. 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
-10.297 dB
Acousticness
4%
Danceability
58%
Energy
65%
Instrumentalness
1%
Liveness
8%
Loudness
83%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
78%

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