TempoPeek

Lana Del Rey · Lust for Life

When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing

When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing is in A minor at 115.9 beats per minute.

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Tempo

116 BPM · Moderatomedian of 129 analyses · 115.9–115.9 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
129people who ran the extractor
One beat
517.7milliseconds, 60,000 ÷ BPM
Tuning
434.2Hz · -23 cents from A 440
Dynamics
4.21dB the level wanders from its average
Loudness
0.904Essentia's 0–1 scale, not dB
Danceability
1.184Essentia'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

129 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 129 readings; 100% of them land within 2% of it, and they barely differ at all.

At 115.9 BPM one beat lasts 517.7 milliseconds, so a sixteenth note is 129.4 ms and a dotted eighth 388.3 ms — the delay times for this recording. Counted half as fast it is 58 BPM, counted twice as fast 231.8. A score would mark that Moderato, 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 4.21 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 0.904 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 116 BPM

Note valueBeatsMillisecondsHertz
Whole note42070.80.48
Half note21035.40.97
Dotted quarter1.5776.51.29
Quarter note (one beat)1517.71.93
Quarter triplet0.667345.12.9
Dotted eighth0.75388.32.58
Eighth note0.5258.83.86
Eighth triplet0.333172.65.8
Dotted sixteenth0.375194.15.15
Sixteenth note0.25129.47.73
Sixteenth triplet0.16786.311.59
Thirty-second note0.12564.715.45

Half time 58 BPM · double time 231.8 BPM. Every row is one beat (517.7 ms) times the fraction in the second column.

Closest in key and tempo

  1. SmoothSantana featuring Rob ThomasA minor116BPM
  2. New RulesDua LipaA minor116BPM
  3. 25 BucksDanny Brown featuring Purity RingA minor116BPM
  4. CryingBjörkA minor116BPM
  5. I Will SurviveGloria GaynorA minor116BPM
  6. Come On HomeFranz FerdinandA minor117BPM
  7. While My Guitar Gently WeepsThe BeatlesA minor115BPM
  8. In Memory of Elizabeth ReedThe Allman Brothers BandA minor115BPM
  9. A Fool for Your StockingsZZ TopA minor115BPM
  10. Hunting High and Lowa‐haA minor117BPM

Recordings in A minor, ordered by how near their tempo is to 116 BPM. A calculation, not a recommendation.

All songs in A minorAll songs at 116 BPMA minor at 110–119 BPMLana Del Rey

MusicBrainz collapses 3 recording ids into this one. Recording id 28e6bc8c-be8a-4775-aa25-bdde3b5c4bb9.