Not Tonight by The New Cars Song Details

The New Cars's ' "Not Tonight" was released on its scheduled release date, June 6, 2006. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:32, 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 The New Cars's "It's Alive" album is number 8 out of 18. Based on our statistics, Not Tonight's popularity is not that popular right now. Based on the vibe, this track doesn't seem to be that danceable, however its valence properties can make this some somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Not Tonight by The New Cars to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 137 BPM, a half-time of 68BPM, and a double-time of 274 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is fast. Activities such as, walking, can go well with this song. 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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Popularity
Loudness
-2.949 dB
Acousticness
0%
Danceability
36%
Energy
96%
Instrumentalness
89%
Liveness
95%
Loudness
95%
Speechiness
12%
Valence
51%

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