Bad News by Alan Menken Song Details

"Bad News" by Alan Menken had its release date on January 1, 2004. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:16, 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 Alan Menken's "Home On The Range (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)" album is number 10 out of 15. On top of that, United States appears to be the country where this track was created. Bad News 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

We consider the tempo marking of Bad News by Alan Menken to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 81 BPM, a half-time of 40BPM, and a double-time of 162 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

G Major is the music key of this track. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 9B. So, the perfect camelot match for 9B would be either 9B or 10A. While, 10B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 6B and a high energy boost can either be 11B or 4B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 9A or 8B will give you a low energy drop, 12B would be a moderate one, and 7B or 2B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 6A allows you to change the mood.

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