TempoPeek

Foreigner · Agent Provocateur

She’s Too Tough

She’s Too Tough is in E minor at 161.7 beats per minute.

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Tempo

162 BPM · Vivacemedian of 136 analyses · 156.4–161.7 across the middle eight tenths
Key
E minor1 sharp · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
61%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
136people who ran the extractor
One beat
371.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
437.5Hz · -10 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.36dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.883Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.188Essentia'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

136 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. A bare majority of them — 61% — put it in E minor, a key signature of 1 sharp. The tempo printed above is the median of the 136 readings; 79% of them land within 2% of it, and the middle eight tenths of them run from 156.4 to 161.7 BPM.

At 161.7 BPM one beat lasts 371.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 92.8 ms and a dotted eighth 278.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 80.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 323.4. A score would mark that Vivace, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 437.5 Hz, which is 10 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 3.36 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 0.883 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 E minor; 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 E minor

Each of these differs from E minor 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 162 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41484.20.67
Half note2742.11.35
Dotted quarter1.5556.61.8
Quarter note (one beat)1371.12.7
Quarter triplet0.667247.44.04
Dotted eighth0.75278.33.59
Eighth note0.5185.55.39
Eighth triplet0.333123.78.08
Dotted sixteenth0.375139.17.19
Sixteenth note0.2592.810.78
Sixteenth triplet0.16761.816.17
Thirty-second note0.12546.421.56

Half time 80.9 BPM · double time 323.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (371.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. Fly Like the WindMeat PuppetsE minor162BPM
  2. Kids in AmericaKim WildeE minor162BPM
  3. CochiseAudioslaveE minor162BPM
  4. Crawling King SnakeThe DoorsE minor162BPM
  5. PipelineDepeche ModeE minor162BPM
  6. Go With the FlowQueens of the Stone AgeE minor163BPM
  7. MagnoliaPlayboi CartiE minor163BPM
  8. A Day in the LifeThe BeatlesE minor164BPM
  9. WhiteoutTim DaviesE minor165BPM
  10. AwakenYesE minor165BPM

Recordings in E minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 162 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in E minorAll songs at 162 BPME minor at 160–169 BPMForeigner

MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id f69c89b7-553d-44fb-afcc-e65eaf4ab697.