I Don't Know What It Is by Pete Shelley Song Details

Pete Shelley's ' "I Don't Know What It Is" was released on its scheduled release date, 1981. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:31, 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 Pete Shelley's "Homosapien" album is number 6 out of 17. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, I Don't Know What It Is's popularity is not that popular right now. The overall tone is very danceable, especially with its high energy, which produces more of a euphoric, cheerful, or happy vibe.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of I Don't Know What It Is by Pete Shelley to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 128 BPM, a half-time of 64BPM, and a double-time of 256 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 E Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 12B. So, the perfect camelot match for 12B would be either 12B or 1A. While, 1B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 9B and a high energy boost can either be 2B or 7B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 12A or 11B will give you a low energy drop, 3B would be a moderate one, and 10B or 5B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 9A allows you to change the mood.

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