Starboy by The Weeknd
Starboy by The Weeknd runs at 92 BPM in the key of A minor. The prompt below describes those musical characteristics for Suno without naming the record.
This analysis has not been checked by a person. Tempo, key, and genre come straight from the software, so treat them as a starting point and trust your ears.
Measured
- Tempo
- 92 BPM
- Key
- A minor
- Length
- 4:33
- Genre
- drum and bass
- Mood
- brooding
- Vocals
- Vocal
Suno prompt
A brooding drum and bass track blending lo-fi hip hop with explosive energy and a swung feel at 92 BPM. The low end is analog synth bass playing driving eighth notes, under a programmed drum machine with a cracking and compressed snare and tight closed hats. Warm analog pads carry the harmony, rhythmic stabs. The arrangement follows loop-based with dynamic drops. A gritty male vocal delivers a layered in close harmony performance. Field-recording ambience adds texture, with a wide stereo chorus on the vocal. Mixed in a warm and analog style, foregrounding rhythmic drive and harmonic warmth, built on simple triad chords, leaving a wistful and unresolved atmosphere.
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What the analysis found
- Bass instrument
- analog synth bass
- Bassline style
- driving eighth notes
- Tempo
- 92
- Chords
- simple triad
- Cymbals
- tight closed hats
- Energy
- explosive
- Atmosphere
- wistful and unresolved
- Genre
- drum and bass
- Second genre
- lo-fi hip hop
- Harmonic instrument
- warm analog pads
- Harmonic style
- rhythmic stabs
- Mixing style
- warm and analog
- Mood
- brooding
- Percussion
- a programmed drum machine
- Rhythmic style
- swung
- Snare
- cracking and compressed
- Sonic focus
- rhythmic drive
- Secondary focus
- harmonic warmth
- Space
- a wide stereo chorus
- Structure
- loop-based with dynamic drops
- Textural detail
- field-recording ambience
- Vocal style
- layered in close harmony
- Vocal
- a gritty male 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.
Planetary Records is not affiliated with The Weeknd. The prompt describes musical characteristics and does not reproduce the recording.