Shy by Peter Murphy Song Details

On May 1, 1989, the song "Shy" was released by Peter Murphy. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 2 out of 10 in Deep by Peter Murphy. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United Kingdom. Based on our statistics, Shy's popularity is below average in popularity 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

The tempo marking of Shy by Peter Murphy is Allegro (fast, quick, and bright), since this song has a tempo of 128 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a fast tempo. This song can go great with walking. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical 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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Popularity
Loudness
-10.623 dB
Acousticness
1%
Danceability
64%
Energy
88%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
5%
Loudness
82%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
80%

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ISRC
GBAZP8900100
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records