Doin' the Things That We Want To - Live 1984 by Lou Reed Song Details

Lou Reed's ' "Doin' the Things That We Want To - Live 1984" was released on its scheduled release date, December 17, 2025. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:09, 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 21 in the song's album "Nocturnal Animals (Live)". In this album, this song's track order is #21. Doin' the Things That We Want To - Live 1984 is not that popular right now. Based on the vibe, this track doesn't seem to be that danceable, however its valence properties can make this some somewhat danceable.

BPM and Tempo

With Doin' the Things That We Want To - Live 1984 by Lou Reed having a BPM of 83 with a half-time of 42 BPM and a double-time of 166 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 4/4.

Music Key

This song is in the music key of D Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 10B. So, the perfect camelot match for 10B would be either 10B or 11A. While, 11B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 7B and a high energy boost can either be 12B or 5B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 10A or 9B will give you a low energy drop, 1B would be a moderate one, and 8B or 3B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 7A allows you to change the mood.

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