The One That Got Away by Katy Perry
The One That Got Away by Katy Perry runs at 136 BPM in the key of E major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 136 BPM
- Key
- E major
- Length
- 4:50
- Genre
- synth-pop
- Mood
- restless
- Vocals
- Vocal
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Analysis and source
- Source recording
- Open the canonical recording source
- Editorial review
- August 23, 2026
Method: Tempo and key use acoustic measurement; descriptor claims use the commercially cleared classifier recorded with this analysis.
Genre, key, and instrumentation are analytical judgments, not artist-supplied credits.
The prompt
A restless synth-pop track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 136 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a clap-layered snare and washy crash-led cymbals. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows AABA. A full-voiced female vocal delivers a layered in close harmony performance. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a lo-fi and saturated style, foregrounding vocal clarity and low-end weight, built on chromatic and shifting chords, leaving a calm and settled atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- electric bass
- Bassline style
- root-note anchored
- Tempo
- 136
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- washy crash-led cymbals
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- synth-pop
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- lo-fi and saturated
- Mood
- restless
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- clap-layered
- Sonic focus
- vocal clarity
- Secondary focus
- low-end weight
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- AABA
- Textural detail
- subtle bitcrush
- Vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- 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. A person checked every published claim category against the source before this page entered the public index.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Katy Perry. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.