Reptilia
by The Strokes
- 156
- BPM
- B minor
- Key
- 10A
- Camelot
- 49
- Danceability
- 1
- Acousticness
The release of the "Reptilia" single slipped slightly after Julian Casablancas objected to the credit on its B-side, a duet called "Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men". It was billed as "the Strokes and Regina Spektor", and he claimed it should read "Regina Spektor and The Strokes".
The song came out on February 9, 2004, as the second single from the Strokes' second album, Room on Fire. Casablancas wrote it and Gordon Raphael produced it. In the US it peaked at number 19 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. It did better in the UK, reaching number 17 and going gold with the British Phonographic Industry. The cover shows an alien from the video game Centipede.
Jake Scott directed the video, the first for the band not made by Roman Coppola. It stays close on the band members' faces, hands and instruments as they play. The song appears in the video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band.
Reptilia runs at 156 BPM, the tempo of hard techno, punk and fast rock. In classical terms it sits in vivace territory. A bar of 4/4 lasts 1.54 seconds, and a quarter-note delay is 385 ms. It is in B minor, Camelot 10A, which shares its notes with D major and mixes cleanly with E minor and F# minor.
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