Mystery Dance by Elvis Costello Song Details

Elvis Costello's ' "Mystery Dance" was released on its scheduled release date, July 22, 1977. With This song being less than two minutes long, at 1:35, we are fairly confident that this song is not explicit and is safe for all ages. Based on the duration of this song, this song duration is much smaller than the average song duration. The track order of this song in Elvis Costello's "My Aim Is True" album is number 9 out of 48. Mystery Dance is below average in popularity right now. The overall mood can be danceable to some, especially with it's high amount of postive energy.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of Mystery Dance by Elvis Costello to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 89 BPM, a half-time of 44BPM, and a double-time of 178 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. Activities such as, yoga or pilates, can go well with this song. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

F Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 7B. So, the perfect camelot match for 7B would be either 7B or 8A. While, 8B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 4B and a high energy boost can either be 9B or 2B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 7A or 6B will give you a low energy drop, 10B would be a moderate one, and 5B or 12B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 4A allows you to change the mood.

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