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A major · Camelot 11B · 129 BPM

Breathe

by The Prodigy

129
BPM
A major
Key
11B
Camelot
68
Danceability
1
Acousticness

"Breathe" returned to the American charts in March 2019, entering at number 14 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Digital Songs chart following the death of Keith Flint. The track had first been released in November 1996 by XL Recordings as the second single from The Prodigy's third album, The Fat of the Land, and it gave the English electronic band their second consecutive number-one in the United Kingdom. It also topped the charts in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Norway and Sweden, and reached the top 10 in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland.

Written by Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim Reality, the song built on a drum break taken from Thin Lizzy's "Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed", while the whiplashing sword sound came from a sample of Wu-Tang Clan's "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'". Jim Davies, who had also played guitar on "Firestarter", performed on the track. Its first live outing came long before release, at a concert in the Pionir Hall in Belgrade, Serbia, on 8 December 1995, eleven months ahead of the single. The Prodigy were the first major international act to play Belgrade since the breakup of Yugoslavia, shortly after UN sanctions were partially lifted, and the song became a favorite among Serbia's urban youth.

Walter Stern directed the music video, set in an abandoned, decrepit apartment building where band members experienced various aural, visual and psychological phenomena, with animals including an alligator and crickets evoking different phobias. It won the 1997 MTV Video Music Award for Viewer's Choice and the International Viewer's Choice Award for MTV Europe. It was the band's final video to feature dancer Leeroy Thornhill.

Breathe runs at 129 BPM, the tempo of house, disco and most club dance music. In classical terms it sits in allegro territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.86 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 465 ms. It is in A major, Camelot 11B, which shares its notes with F# minor and mixes cleanly with D major and E major.

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