Ke$ha · Animal
Take It Off
Take It Off is in B flat minor at 125 beats per minute.
Tempo
125 BPM · Allegromedian of 154 analyses · 125–125.1 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ minor5 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 154people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 480milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 438.2Hz · -7 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.95dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.952Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.423Essentia'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
154 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in B flat minor, a key signature of 5 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 154 readings; 97% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 125 BPM one beat lasts 480 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 120 ms and a dotted eighth 360 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 62.5 BPM, counted twice as fast 250. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 438.2 Hz, which is 7 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 2.95 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 0.952 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 B flat 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 B♭ minor
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 125 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1920 | 0.52 |
| Half note | 2 | 960 | 1.04 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 720 | 1.39 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 480 | 2.08 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 320 | 3.13 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 360 | 2.78 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 240 | 4.17 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 160 | 6.25 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 180 | 5.56 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 120 | 8.33 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 80 | 12.5 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 60 | 16.67 |
Half time 62.5 BPM · double time 250 BPM. Every row is one beat (480 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- BelieverImagine DragonsB♭ minor125BPM
- Missionary ManEurythmicsB♭ minor125BPM
- (Exchange)Massive AttackB♭ minor125BPM
- Part‐Time Mutha2PacB♭ minor124BPM
- Burnin’Daft PunkB♭ minor124BPM
- Solar SailerDaft PunkB♭ minor124BPM
- Don’t GoYazooB♭ minor126BPM
- Signs of LifePink FloydB♭ minor123BPM
- PushermanCurtis MayfieldB♭ minor127BPM
- Love to See You CryEnrique IglesiasB♭ minor123BPM
Recordings in B flat minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 125 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat minorAll songs at 125 BPMB♭ minor at 120–129 BPMKe$ha
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id 96ab3214-3aa0-4035-abcf-396f976efb13.