Honey by Erykah Badu
Honey by Erykah Badu runs at 88 BPM in the key of C# minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 88 BPM
- Key
- C# minor
- Length
- 5:21
- Genre
- R&B
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
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The prompt
A restless R&B track blending soul with explosive energy and a broken-beat feel at 88 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under a programmed drum machine with a brushed snare and sizzling cymbals. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows intro-verse-chorus-outro. A full-voiced female vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Analog hiss adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a tense and coiled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 88
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- sizzling cymbals
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- tense and coiled
- Genre
- R&B
- Second genre
- soul
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- a programmed drum machine
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- intro-verse-chorus-outro
- Textural detail
- analog hiss
- Vocal style
- smooth and melismatic
- Vocal
- a full-voiced female vocal
About this page
This is an independent acoustic analysis. Tempo and key are measured from the audio; instrumentation and production characteristics are classified against a fixed vocabulary. The source recording is deleted once the analysis finishes, and no lyrics from it are stored. The measurements and classifications are automated estimates, so use them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Erykah Badu. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.