It's Not The Spotlight by The Manhattan Transfer Song Details

The Manhattan Transfer's ' "It's Not The Spotlight" was released on its scheduled release date, January 19, 1978. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:38, 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. There are a total of 12 in the song's album "Pastiche". In this album, this song's track order is #9. Based on our statistics, It's Not The Spotlight's popularity is 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

With It's Not The Spotlight by The Manhattan Transfer having a BPM of 143 with a half-time of 72 BPM and a double-time of 286 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 jogging or cycling. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of F♯ Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 2B. So, the perfect camelot match for 2B would be either 2B or 3A. While, 3B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 11B and a high energy boost can either be 4B or 9B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 2A or 1B will give you a low energy drop, 5B would be a moderate one, and 12B or 7B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 11A allows you to change the mood.

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