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Philip Glass

Why Does Someone Have to Die?

The Hours (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Tempo(?)
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78 BPM
Key(?)
Key of the track. Useful if you are trying to find songs this will work well with for DJing, singing a cover or trying to find the notes which make up the song.
G min
Loudness(?)
Average loudness of the track in decibels (dB). Values typically are between -60 and 0 decibels. Tracks are rarely above -4 db and usually are around -4 to -9 db.
-27.57db
Time signature(?)
How many beats there are per measure/bar.
3/4

Popularity
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31%
Energy
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1%
Danceability
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27%
Positiveness
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3%
Speechiness
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4%
Liveness
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12%
Acousticness
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98%
Instrumentalness
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98%




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Why Does Someone Have to Die? is a song by Philip Glass, released on 2002-12-05. It is track number 10 in the album The Hours (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack). Why Does Someone Have to Die? has a BPM/tempo of 78 beats per minute, is in the key of G min and has a duration of 3 minutes, 56 seconds.

Why Does Someone Have to Die? is very popular on Spotify, being rated between 30 and 90% popularity on Spotify right now. It is likely that this track is being shared by many people across the world, played on the radio and on a number of Spotify playlists receiving thousands of streams, is not very energetic, being quite a low energy/chill track and is most likely not the easiest thing to dance to, probably being a bit more of a relaxed song.


Why Does Someone Have to Die? info

Name
Why Does Someone Have to Die?
Artist(s)
Philip Glass
Album
The Hours (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Release Date
5th December 2002
ISRC
USNO10269310
Key
G min
Tempo
78
Loudness (db)
-27.57db
Time signature
3/4
Length
03:56
Song Number
10 of 14
Explicit
No