Serious by Duran Duran Song Details

Duran Duran's ' "Serious" was released on its scheduled release date, August 20, 1990. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:21, 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 Duran Duran's "Liberty" album is number 4 out of 11. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. Based on our statistics, Serious's popularity is average in popularity right now. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Serious by Duran Duran to be Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) because the track has a tempo of 124 BPM, a half-time of 62BPM, and a double-time of 248 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

B♭ Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 6B. So, the perfect camelot match for 6B would be either 6B or 7A. While, 7B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 3B and a high energy boost can either be 8B or 1B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 6A or 5B will give you a low energy drop, 9B would be a moderate one, and 4B or 11B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 3A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-8.129 dB
Acousticness
4%
Danceability
72%
Energy
73%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
11%
Loudness
86%
Speechiness
3%
Valence
47%

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ISRC
GBAYE9000526
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records