So Easy by Olivia Dean
So Easy by Olivia Dean runs at 136 BPM in the key of D# major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 136 BPM
- Key
- D# major
- Length
- 3:17
- Genre
- soul
- Mood
- wistful
- Vocals
- Vocal
A person reviewed this analysis against the linked source, including its identity, tempo, key, genre, instrumentation, vocal status, and prompt fidelity.
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 wistful soul track with explosive energy and a swung feel at 136 BPM. The low end is electric bass playing root-note anchored, under an acoustic drum kit with a brushed snare and shimmering open hats. Clean electric guitar carries the harmony, fingerpicked. The arrangement follows AABA. A full-voiced female vocal delivers a smooth and melismatic performance. Vinyl crackle adds texture, with a slapback delay on the vocal. Mixed in a clean and spacious style, foregrounding harmonic warmth and atmospheric space, 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
- shimmering open hats
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- soul
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- wistful
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- a slapback delay
- Structure
- AABA
- Textural detail
- vinyl crackle
- 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. A person checked every published claim category against the source before this page entered the public index.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with Olivia Dean. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.