Hot Blooded
by Foreigner
- 117
- BPM
- C major
- Key
- 8B
- Camelot
- 71
- Danceability
- 23
- Acousticness
Mick Jones kept playing one guitar riff after another at his apartment while Lou Gramm sat with him. According to Gramm, when Jones started one particular riff, he told him to stop and asked what it was. Jones said it was just another riff. Gramm began singing along, and they found the chorus first and then worked on the verse lyrics. Those led to the "Hot Blooded" line. Gramm remembered the two of them jumping off the walls when they cracked the title.
Foreigner released "Hot Blooded" as a single in June 1978, from the second studio album, Double Vision. It reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 that September. The RIAA certified it platinum. It is also the theme song of the truTV series Tacoma FD.
Gramm described the lyrics as a bit tongue-in-cheek. He said it is hard to meet women on the road. In the song, a man spots someone in the audience he wants to meet, but by the time the interviews are done and he has cleaned up, nobody is left, and he ends up wandering a city alone with nothing to do.
Hot Blooded runs at 117 BPM, the tempo of pop, funk and disco-leaning dance. In classical terms it sits in moderato territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 2.05 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 513 ms. It is in C major, Camelot 8B, which shares its notes with A minor and mixes cleanly with F major and G major.
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