Cyndi Lauper · She’s So Unusual
She Bop
She Bop is in C major at 136.7 beats per minute.
Tempo
137 BPM · Allegromedian of 162 analyses · 136.4–136.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- C majorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 61%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 162people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 438.9milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 437Hz · -12 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.9dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.916Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.165Essentia's danceability, 0–3
Source: AcousticBrainz, dump of 2022-06-23 (CC0) · MusicBrainz core data, 2026-09-17 (CC0) · how each number is measured. Measured up to 23.06.2022 — AcousticBrainz stopped collecting in 2022, so nothing released after that date is here.
What the numbers say
162 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 61% — put it in C major, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 162 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136.7 BPM one beat lasts 438.9 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 109.7 ms and a dotted eighth 329.2 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.4 BPM, counted twice as fast 273.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437 Hz, which is 12 cents below concert A at 440 Hz — the sort of drift a tape machine or a slightly different mastering leaves behind. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.
The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 2.9 dB: that is how far the level wanders from its own average, so a small number means a loud, flat master and a large one means a recording that still breathes. Its average loudness is 0.916 on Essentia's 0-to-1 scale, which is not decibels and is not comparable to a streaming service's number.
10 other recordings here are in C major; the ones listed below are the closest in tempo.
Beats per bar are not in this dataset. AcousticBrainz's analysis reports a tempo, a key and a loudness, and no time signature at all, so this page does not print one — a 4/4 here would be a guess dressed as a measurement.
Keys that fit with C major
Each of these differs from C major by at most one accidental, or shares its tonic. That is the whole of what a mixing wheel encodes; here the relations are named instead of numbered.
Delay times at 137 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1755.7 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 877.8 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 658.4 | 1.52 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 438.9 | 2.28 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 292.6 | 3.42 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 329.2 | 3.04 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 219.5 | 4.56 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.3 | 6.84 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 164.6 | 6.08 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 109.7 | 9.11 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.2 | 13.67 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.9 | 18.23 |
Half time 68.4 BPM · double time 273.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (438.9 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Take It AllAdeleC major137BPM
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- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on MeElton JohnC major137BPM
- Knives OutRadioheadC major137BPM
- SatelliteCollective SoulC major136BPM
- Under the Milky WayThe ChurchC major136BPM
- La Vie en roseLouis Armstrong with Sy Oliver’s OrchestraC major136BPM
Recordings in C major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 137 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in C majorAll songs at 137 BPMC major at 130–139 BPMCyndi Lauper
MusicBrainz collapses 21 recording ids into this one. Recording id 64b9876c-e15d-48ed-92a5-3b797606b22e.