Paula Abdul · Forever Your Girl
Straight Up
Straight Up is in D minor at 95.8 beats per minute.
Tempo
96 BPM · Andantemedian of 171 analyses · 95.8–95.9 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- D minor1 flat · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 99%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 171people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 626.3milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 4.17dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.927Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.315Essentia'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
171 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 99% — put it in D minor, a key signature of 1 flat. The tempo printed above is the median of the 171 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 95.8 BPM one beat lasts 626.3 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 156.6 ms and a dotted eighth 469.7 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 47.9 BPM, counted twice as fast 191.6. A score would mark that Andante, 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 4.17 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 0.927 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 D 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 D minor
Each of these differs from D 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 96 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 2505.2 | 0.4 |
| Half note | 2 | 1252.6 | 0.8 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 939.5 | 1.06 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 626.3 | 1.6 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 417.5 | 2.4 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 469.7 | 2.13 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 313.2 | 3.19 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 208.8 | 4.79 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 234.9 | 4.26 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 156.6 | 6.39 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 104.4 | 9.58 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 78.3 | 12.77 |
Half time 47.9 BPM · double time 191.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (626.3 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Picture Me Rollin’2Pac feat. Danny Boy, Syke & CPOD minor96BPM
- EngelRammsteinD minor96BPM
- What I GotSublimeD minor96BPM
- Get Another BoyfriendBackstreet BoysD minor96BPM
- Dani CaliforniaRed Hot Chili PeppersD minor96BPM
- SpellboundAC/DCD minor96BPM
- The Next EpisodeDr. DreD minor95BPM
- Frozen HeartCastD minor96BPM
- Check the RhimeA Tribe Called QuestD minor96BPM
- Everybody’s FoolEvanescenceD minor95BPM
Recordings in D minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 96 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in D minorAll songs at 96 BPMD minor at 90–99 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 30 recording ids into this one. Recording id 73415035-969a-4620-a61c-4d6e81e14ccf.