The Offspring · Americana

Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)

Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) is in D major at 143.3 beats per minute.

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Tempo

143 BPM · Allegromedian of 135 analyses · 143.3–143.4 across the middle eight tenths
Key
D major2 sharps · the key most of the analyses agreed on
Agreement
90%share of analyses that agreed
Analyses
135people who ran the extractor
One beat
418.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
440.5Hz · +2 cents from A 440
Dynamics
3.12dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.961Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.207Essentia'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

135 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. Most of them — 90% — put it in D major, a key signature of 2 sharps. The tempo printed above is the median of the 135 readings; 99% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 143.3 BPM one beat lasts 418.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 104.7 ms and a dotted eighth 314 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 71.7 BPM, counted twice as fast 286.6. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.

The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 440.5 Hz, which is 2 cents above concert A at 440 Hz — close enough to standard that a tuner would not argue. That is a fact about this transfer of the music, not about how it was played.

The dynamic complexity of the recording measures 3.12 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 0.961 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 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 D major

Each of these differs from D 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 143 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note41674.80.6
Half note2837.41.19
Dotted quarter1.5628.11.59
Quarter note (one beat)1418.72.39
Quarter triplet0.667279.13.58
Dotted eighth0.753143.18
Eighth note0.5209.44.78
Eighth triplet0.333139.67.17
Dotted sixteenth0.3751576.37
Sixteenth note0.25104.79.55
Sixteenth triplet0.16769.814.33
Thirty-second note0.12552.319.11

Half time 71.7 BPM · double time 286.6 BPM. Every row is one beat (418.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. LavaThe B‐52sD major144BPM
  2. Alone, TogetherThe StrokesD major143BPM
  3. BeautyMeat PuppetsD major144BPM
  4. Burning LoveElvis PresleyD major144BPM
  5. Embryonic JourneyJefferson AirplaneD major143BPM
  6. Mint CarThe CureD major144BPM
  7. I’ll Make Love to YouBoyz II MenD major143BPM
  8. Moonage DaydreamDavid BowieD major144BPM
  9. But I Might Die TonightCat StevensD major144BPM
  10. The Fool On The HillThe BeatlesD major144BPM

Recordings in D major, ordered by how near their tempo is to 143 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in D majorAll songs at 143 BPMD major at 140–149 BPMThe Offspring

MusicBrainz collapses 22 recording ids into this one. Recording id 31274d55-9619-428e-a8a1-aabaed124c51.