Fleetwood Mac recorded and released “Landslide” in the 1970s. Its tempo is ~79 4/5ths BPM, a speed that on a Confidence level, compared to other tempo ranges, 79-84 BPM are not necessarily desperate, lonely or as in Eminem’s STAN, with major help from Dido, ~80 BPM, desperately lonely.
Landslide - Precision in measurement radar tempo chart
http://bpmscan.com/LandlideBPM
There are other expression of this loneliness: Foreigner, I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IS – that is misery, trust me. And the WE WILL ROCK YOU chant? That is ~82. Sets an atmosphere of fear – well, it did in 1986, and now it’s *played out* you stadium music programmers!)
Bruce Hornsby and Pat Metheny take the high road out of loneliness in THE TIDE IS HIGH, ~ 80 BPM. This song is honored by Manningsan and me as ‘the exception that proves the rule,’ is same song’s optimism, especially in Pat’s solo on the key change.
And another way, as here, to deal with being lonely – face it and realize that your Stevie Nicks at 20-something and life is, well, pretty good. However, heartache is heartache, even if you are Stevie at 22.
Yesterday I saw my screen saver had produced the tempo map show in this page. I thought: this is a song good enough to have an album made around the one song: have Eminem create his version, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, Dave Matthews. As as EP, I’d but that without sampling it at all.
Have a great night,
Ian A Schneider
