Cage the Elephant feat. Alison Mosshart · Melophobia
It’s Just Forever
It’s Just Forever is in A minor at 136.2 beats per minute.
Tempo
136 BPM · Allegromedian of 153 analyses · 136.2–136.3 across the middle eight tenths- Key
- A minorno sharps and no flats · the key most of the analyses agreed on
- Agreement
- 100%share of analyses that agreed
- Analyses
- 153people who ran the extractor
- One beat
- 440.5milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
- Tuning
- 439.7Hz · -1 cents from A 440
- Dynamics
- 2.34dB the level wanders from its average
- Loudness
- 0.959Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
- Danceability
- 1.09Essentia'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
153 independent analyses of this recording were submitted to AcousticBrainz. All but a handful of them — 100% — put it in A minor, a key signature of no sharps and no flats. The tempo printed above is the median of the 153 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.
At 136.2 BPM one beat lasts 440.5 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 110.1 ms and a dotted eighth 330.4 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 68.1 BPM, counted twice as fast 272.4. A score would mark that Allegro, by the ranges this site uses.
The analyses put the reference pitch of the recording at 439.7 Hz, which is 1 cents below 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 2.34 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 0.959 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 A 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 A minor
Each of these differs from A 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 136 BPM
| Note value | Beats | Milliseconds | Hertz |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whole note | 4 | 1762.1 | 0.57 |
| Half note | 2 | 881.1 | 1.14 |
| Dotted quarter | 1.5 | 660.8 | 1.51 |
| Quarter note (one beat) | 1 | 440.5 | 2.27 |
| Quarter triplet | 0.667 | 293.7 | 3.41 |
| Dotted eighth | 0.75 | 330.4 | 3.03 |
| Eighth note | 0.5 | 220.3 | 4.54 |
| Eighth triplet | 0.333 | 146.8 | 6.81 |
| Dotted sixteenth | 0.375 | 165.2 | 6.05 |
| Sixteenth note | 0.25 | 110.1 | 9.08 |
| Sixteenth triplet | 0.167 | 73.4 | 13.62 |
| Thirty-second note | 0.125 | 55.1 | 18.16 |
Half time 68.1 BPM · double time 272.4 BPM. Every row is one beat (440.5 ms) times the fraction in the second column.
Closest in key and tempo
- Cover MeBjörkA minor136BPM
- Soul SacrificeSantanaA minor136BPM
- Babe I’m Gonna Leave YouLed ZeppelinA minor136BPM
- 7/11BeyoncéA minor136BPM
- BarracudaHeartA minor137BPM
- You Have Been LovedGeorge MichaelA minor137BPM
- PorchPearl JamA minor136BPM
- Furthest ThingDrakeA minor137BPM
- These DaysFoo FightersA minor135BPM
- Last Living SoulsGorillazA minor137BPM
Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 136 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.
All songs in A minorAll songs at 136 BPMA minor at 130–139 BPM
MusicBrainz collapses 1 recording id into this one. Recording id c0d4063a-2d9d-493e-8ed6-ac52d4e8e46d.