A Dream by Lou Reed, John Cale Song Details

"A Dream" by Lou Reed, John Cale had its release date on April 11, 1990. 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 15 in the song's album "Songs For Drella". In this album, this song's track order is #13. A Dream is below average in popularity right now. In our opinion, the overall tone is not very danceable and projects negative sounds, such as being sad, depressed, or angry.

BPM and Tempo

With A Dream by Lou Reed, John Cale having a BPM of 50 with a half-time of 25 BPM and a double-time of 100 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Lento (slowly) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of C Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 8B. So, the perfect camelot match for 8B would be either 8B or 9A. While, 9B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 5B and a high energy boost can either be 10B or 3B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 8A or 7B will give you a low energy drop, 11B would be a moderate one, and 6B or 1B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 5A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-21.592 dB
Acousticness
88%
Danceability
25%
Energy
24%
Instrumentalness
5%
Liveness
9%
Loudness
64%
Speechiness
6%
Valence
16%

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