The Cure by Olivia Rodrigo
The Cure by Olivia Rodrigo runs at 144 BPM in the key of C# major. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics without naming the record.
Measured
- Tempo
- 144 BPM
- Key
- C# major
- Length
- 5:14
- Genre
- indie rock
- Mood
- tender
- 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 tender indie rock track with high energy and a broken-beat feel at 144 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 layered in close harmony performance. Subtle bitcrush adds texture, with an intimate dry space 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
- 144
- Chords
- chromatic and shifting
- Cymbals
- shimmering open hats
- Energy
- high
- Atmosphere
- calm and settled
- Genre
- indie rock
- Harmonic instrument
- clean electric guitar
- Harmonic style
- fingerpicked
- Mixing style
- clean and spacious
- Mood
- tender
- Percussion
- an acoustic drum kit
- Rhythmic style
- broken-beat
- Snare
- brushed
- Sonic focus
- harmonic warmth
- Secondary focus
- atmospheric space
- Space
- an intimate dry space
- 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 Olivia Rodrigo. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.