Songs Like Dog Days Are Over by Florence
By Dan Cohen · Published 2026-09-05
Joy is the hardest thing to measure and the easiest to fake. Our scale gives Dog Days Are Over three tags at once — energetic, joyful, uplifting — on top of intensity 62, dynamic range 7, and 150 BPM, layered, dynamic vocals, moderate shifts. It is the fastest record in this comparison by a wide margin.
The two that share all three tags
- Love On Top — Beyoncé. Intensity 61, dynamic range 9, 123 BPM. It climbs two notches further than the seed — unsurprising for a song famous for its key changes.
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours — Stevie Wonder. Intensity 60, dynamic range 7, 95 BPM, and no sudden changes at all — joy delivered completely evenly.
Sharing energetic and joyful
- Lovesick Girls — BLACKPINK. Intensity 62, dynamic range 8, 100 BPM — identical intensity to the seed.
- Problem — Ariana Grande. Intensity 62, dynamic range 8, 102 BPM.
- Another Star — Stevie Wonder. Intensity 63, dynamic range 8, 109 BPM.
- Superstition — Stevie Wonder. Intensity 60, dynamic range 8, 100 BPM.
- Somebody to Love — Queen. Intensity 60, dynamic range 9, 78 BPM.
- In the Hall of the Mountain King — Grieg. Intensity 59, dynamic range 8, with frequent shifts.
Three of the nine are Stevie Wonder records, which is the clearest statement our data makes about who was best at this particular thing.
Dog Days Are Over appears on Florence + the Machine’s 2009 album Lungs. Figures are our own measurements, read from the public API at build time. The genre and era spread is a consequence of measuring sound rather than style — it is not a claim that these artists resemble each other in any other way. No lyrics are reproduced.