Nurds by The Roches Song Details

The Roches's ' "Nurds" was released on its scheduled release date, October 8, 1980. With this song being around four minutes long, at 4:15, 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 10 in the song's album "Nurds". In this album, this song's track order is #1. Based on our statistics, Nurds's popularity is not that popular 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

With Nurds by The Roches having a BPM of 132 with a half-time of 66 BPM and a double-time of 264 BPM, we would consider this track to have a Allegro (fast, quick, and bright) tempo marking. Because of this, we believe that the song has an overall fast tempo. Looking at the BPM of this song, this song might 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
-10.575 dB
Acousticness
5%
Danceability
60%
Energy
66%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
46%
Loudness
82%
Speechiness
5%
Valence
72%

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ISRC
This song does not have an ISRC.
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records