Ripe (With Decay)
Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile
6:34 September 21, 1999
BPM
80
Key
A♭ Major
Camelot
4B

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Ripe (With Decay) by Nine Inch Nails Song Details

"Ripe (With Decay)" by Nine Inch Nails had its release date on September 21, 1999. Since This song is still less than 10 minute long, it is still considered a pretty long duration song compared to the average song length. This song does not appear to be explicit due to the lack of the "E" tag. There are a total of 23 in the song's album "The Fragile". In this album, this song's track order is #11. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. Ripe (With Decay) is below average in popularity right now. Although the tone can be danceable to some, this track does projects more of a negative sound rather than a postive one.

BPM and Tempo

With Ripe (With Decay) by Nine Inch Nails having a BPM of 80 with a half-time of 40 BPM and a double-time of 160 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Andante (at a walking pace) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 3/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of A♭ Major. 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
-14.812 dB
Acousticness
15%
Danceability
57%
Energy
18%
Instrumentalness
87%
Liveness
18%
Loudness
75%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
4%

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ISRC
USIR19902603
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records