The Letter by Natalie Merchant Song Details

"The Letter" by Natalie Merchant had its release date on November 6, 2015. With this song being around four minutes long, at 3:55, 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 11 in the song's album "Paradise Is There: The New Tigerlily Recordings". In this album, this song's track order is #5. Furthermore, we believe that the track originated from United States. The Letter is not that popular 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 The Letter by Natalie Merchant having a BPM of 81 with a half-time of 40 BPM and a double-time of 162 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 5/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of B Major. Or for those who are familiar with the camelot wheel, this song has a camelot key of 1B. So, the perfect camelot match for 1B would be either 1B or 2A. While, 2B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 10B and a high energy boost can either be 3B or 8B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 1A or 12B will give you a low energy drop, 4B would be a moderate one, and 11B or 6B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 10A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-16.311 dB
Acousticness
96%
Danceability
13%
Energy
10%
Instrumentalness
5%
Liveness
13%
Loudness
73%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
10%

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ISRC
USNO11500300
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records