Academy Award Best Song 2007=Melissa Etheridge, "I Need To Wake Up," (from An Inconvenient Truth)--meanspeed=74.0 beats per minute, meanemotion=grace

Melissa Etheridge's "I Need To Wake Up" (From 'An Inconvenient Truth) won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Song. The speed of the winning song tonight at the Academy Awards was 74.0 beats per minute. Such speed falls withing the meanemotion of grace (70-76 beats per minute).

"Chicago" by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young from their live '4-Way Street' album is 73.9 beats per minute and is another timeless, effective protest song.

Ian Schneider
Meanspeed Music
2/26/2007