Lana Del Rey · Born to Die
This Is What Makes Us Girls
This Is What Makes Us Girls is in B flat major at 137.9 beats per minute.
Tempo
138 BPM · Allegromedian of 177 analyses · 137.9–138 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- B♭ major2 flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 95%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 177people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 435.1milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.08dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.544Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.115Essentia'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
177 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 95% — put it in B flat major, a key signature of 2 flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 177 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 137.9 BPM one beat lasts 435.1 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 108.8 ms and a dotted eighth 326.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 69 BPM, counted twice as fast 275.8. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 434.2 Hz, which is 23 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 4.08 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 0.544 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 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 B♭ major
Each of these differs from B♭ 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 138 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1740.4 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 870.2 | 1.15 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 652.6 | 1.53 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 435.1 | 2.3 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 290.1 | 3.45 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 326.3 | 3.06 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 217.5 | 4.6 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 145 | 6.9 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 163.2 | 6.13 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 108.8 | 9.19 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 72.5 | 13.79 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 54.4 | 18.39 |
Half time 69 BPM · double time 275.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (435.1 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Charlie BrownColdplayB♭ major138BPM
- IdiotequeRadioheadB♭ major138BPM
- Come Fly With MeFrank SinatraB♭ major137BPM
- Green OnionsBooker T. & the MG’sB♭ major137BPM
- Se a caboSantanaB♭ major137BPM
- Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games With Me)Black SabbathB♭ major137BPM
- Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going to Be a Long, Long Time)Elton JohnB♭ major137BPM
- RudySupertrampB♭ major140BPM
- Island GirlElton JohnB♭ major140BPM
- As Long as You Love MeJustin Bieber feat. Big SeanB♭ major140BPM
Recordings in B flat major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 138 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in B flat majorAll songs at 138 BPMB♭ major at 130–139 BPMLana Del Rey
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id c60aa61e-8531-442b-b1b3-058ef2cdbd73.