The Thing Is by Gilbert O'Sullivan Song Details

On October 1, 1974, the song "The Thing Is" was released by Gilbert O'Sullivan. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:01, 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 8 out of 22 in A Stranger In My Own Back Yard (Deluxe Edition) by Gilbert O'Sullivan. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. The popularity of The Thing Is is currently not that popular 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 The Thing Is by Gilbert O'Sullivan is Presto (very, very fast), since this song has a tempo of 180 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of D♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-6.538 dB
Acousticness
38%
Danceability
49%
Energy
85%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
4%
Loudness
89%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
97%

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ISRC
GB7GZ1100195
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records