Dragula
by Rob Zombie
- 123
- BPM
- C minor
- Key
- 5A
- Camelot
- 57
- Danceability
- 0
- Acousticness
Rob Zombie had been nominated for a Grammy as a solo act, for the 1996 song "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" with Alice Cooper, when he released "Dragula" in August 1998 as the lead single from his solo debut, Hellbilly Deluxe. The title came from DRAG-U-LA, the dragster driven by Grandpa Munster on The Munsters. Zombie told Billboard that the song was one of the last finished for the record, that it fell together really fast, and that it could just as easily not have been on it.
The opening audio clip, "superstition, fear and jealousy", is dialogue from the 1960 horror film The City of the Dead, spoken by Christopher Lee. The original single also included a big beat remix by Charlie Clouser called the "Hot Rod Herman" remix, named for a Munsters episode.
In the video, Zombie drove the Munster Koach, not the actual racing car, around Southern California locations such as the Arroyo Seco Parkway in Pasadena. Scenes from classic horror films were cut in, and the clip got heavy rotation on MTV. By 2010 the song had sold over 717,000 copies in the U.S. It is his best-selling song and the most recognizable one of his solo career.
Dragula runs at 123 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 1.95 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 488 ms. It is in C minor, Camelot 5A, which shares its notes with Eb major and mixes cleanly with F minor and G minor.
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