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10 songs that feel like What Happens Tomorrow

Matched to What Happens Tomorrow by Duran Duran on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

What Happens Tomorrow
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What Happens Tomorrow
Duran Duran
safe 26/100 intensity 70 BPM
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Meet Me in the Hallway — Harry Styles safe 75 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same contemplative pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (26/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (75 BPM).

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Both Sides, Now — Joni Mitchell safe 82 BPM

98% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (27/100). Same smooth texture.

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Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) — Garth Brooks safe 82 BPM

Keeps the same contemplative pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (27/100). Measured 98% alike.

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Merry Go 'Round — Kacey Musgraves safe 85 BPM

Measures 97% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (27/100). Same smooth texture.

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Crying Time — Ray Charles moderate 85 BPM

A 97% feel-match — carries the same contemplative pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (27/100).

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Gone — NSYNC safe 68 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (26/100). Same smooth texture.

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Fernando — ABBA safe 90 BPM

Keeps the same contemplative pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (27/100). Measured 96% alike.

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The Last Gunfighter Ballad — Guy Clark safe 70 BPM

Measures 96% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (22/100). Same smooth texture.

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If Tomorrow Never Comes — Garth Brooks safe 67 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same melancholy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (25/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (67 BPM).

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Cardigan — Taylor Swift safe 67 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (22/100). Same smooth texture.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “What Happens Tomorrow” by Duran Duran?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Meet Me in the Hallway” by Harry Styles, “Both Sides, Now” by Joni Mitchell, “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)” by Garth Brooks — the top match scores 99% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

How intense is “What Happens Tomorrow”?

It measures 26/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Tempo is 70 BPM.

How do you decide which songs are similar?

Every song in our catalog is measured on 8 dimensions — intensity, dynamic range, tempo, sudden changes, texture, predictability, vocal force and fine sound detail. Similarity is the distance between two songs across those measurements, so matches cross genres and eras. Shared mood tags break ties.

By the numbers: how this song compares

Computed from this song’s place among the 19,209 songs we’ve measured.

Where it sits in 19,000 songs

This sits near the calm end of everything we've measured — gentler than 83% of the 19,209 songs in the library. Its intensity reading of 26/100 comes from a dynamic range of 6/10, smooth texture, no sudden shifts, and soft vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a slow, unhurried pace: more extreme on that axis than 96% of everything we've measured. At the far opposite end of the library sit the songs built on full chaos — sudden changes, huge quiet-to-loud swings, and relentless energy — the kind of track this one is the counterpoint to.

Feels almost identical to

Closest matches by feel across all 19,209 measured songs — not by genre or artist, by how they actually move.

What it’s good for

Sleep8/10
Focus10/10
Workout1/10
Dinner8/10
Party / hype1/10

Scored from this song’s tempo, intensity, dynamics and texture — not crowd votes.

2004 in context

The 334 songs we’ve measured from 2004 average a dynamic range of 6.4/10. At 6/10, this track is right in line with its year.

Mixes smoothly with

Within a few BPM and close in feel — they flow without a jarring transition.

The fingerprint

Intensity26
Dynamics56
Tempo17
Surprise0
Density0
Predictability50
Vocal force25
Trigger load0

The 8-dimension measurement behind every rating on this page.

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