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10 songs that feel like Kill This Love

Matched to Kill This Love by BLACKPINK on how the music actually moves — intensity, dynamic swing, texture, tempo — not by genre tag. Here's what makes each one a match.

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intense 80/100 intensity 120 BPM
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Say Amen (Saturday Night) — Panic! At The Disco intense 130 BPM

A 98% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (81/100).

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By the Way — Red Hot Chili Peppers intense 102 BPM

96% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (79/100). Same layered texture.

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Rape Me — Nirvana intense 110 BPM

Keeps the same heavy pull — lands at almost exactly the same energy (76/100). Measured 95% alike.

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Livin' on the Edge — Aerosmith intense 95 BPM

Measures 95% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (78/100). Same layered texture.

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Paranoid Android — Radiohead intense 87 BPM

A 93% feel-match — carries the same heavy pull and lands at almost exactly the same energy (78/100).

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Get Up Offa That Thing — James Brown intense 120 BPM

99% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it lands at almost exactly the same energy (80/100). Same layered texture.

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Dancing's Not a Crime — Panic! At The Disco intense 120 BPM

Keeps the same feel — lands at almost exactly the same energy (80/100). Measured 99% alike. Nearly the same tempo, too (120 BPM).

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Waking the Witch — Kate Bush intense 120 BPM

Measures 99% the same. It lands at almost exactly the same energy (80/100). Same layered texture.

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Supper's Ready — Genesis intense 120 BPM

A 99% feel-match — carries the same feel and lands at almost exactly the same energy (80/100). Nearly the same tempo, too (120 BPM).

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Watch Out for This (Bumaye) — Major Lazer intense 93 BPM

93% match across our 8 measured dimensions; it sits a little calmer at 74/100. Same layered texture.

…and if you want it calmer

Same feeling, measured gentler — for when Kill This Love is more than you want right now.

Working for the Man by Roy Orbison
Working for the Man — Roy Orbison moderate 120 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9. Intensity 46/100, down from 80. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Caroline's Monkey by Depeche Mode
Caroline's Monkey — Depeche Mode moderate 112 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9, so it lands at 55/100 — the pull without the edge. Nearly the same tempo, too.

Point Blank by Bruce Springsteen
Point Blank — Bruce Springsteen moderate 116 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9. Reads 52/100. Nearly the same tempo, too.

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Black Steel — Tricky moderate 90 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9. 50/100, versus the original's 80.

Pieces of a Man by Gil Scott-Heron
Pieces of a Man — Gil Scott-Heron moderate 90 BPM

Keeps the same feel of the original, but its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9. Intensity 50/100, down from 80.

I Ain't Superstitious by Howlin' Wolf
I Ain't Superstitious — Howlin' Wolf moderate 90 BPM

Its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9, so it lands at 46/100 — the pull without the edge.

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Da Art of Storytellin' Pt. 1 — Outkast moderate 92 BPM

If it's the same feel you're after, this delivers it while its dynamic range stays a gentler 7 where the original climbs to 9. Reads 50/100.

Dirty Boulevard by Lou Reed
Dirty Boulevard — Lou Reed moderate 95 BPM

Holds the same feel while its dynamic range stays a gentler 6 where the original climbs to 9. 41/100, versus the original's 80.

Frequently asked

What songs sound like “Kill This Love” by BLACKPINK?

The closest feel-matches we measure are “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” by Panic! At The Disco, “By the Way” by Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Rape Me” by Nirvana — the top match scores 98% alike. Matching is by how the songs actually move (intensity, dynamic range, texture, tempo, predictability, vocal force), not by genre tag or popularity.

What songs are like “Kill This Love” but calmer?

“Working for the Man” by Roy Orbison, “Caroline's Monkey” by Depeche Mode, “Point Blank” by Bruce Springsteen keep a similar feel while measuring gentler — lower dynamic swing, fewer sudden shifts, or a calmer overall level.

How intense is “Kill This Love”?

It measures 80/100 on our intensity scale, computed from a dynamic range of 9/10, layered texture, frequent sudden shifts, and dynamic vocals. Tempo is 120 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 is one of the more intense things in our library — more energetic than 94% of the 19,209 songs we've measured. Its intensity reading of 80/100 comes from a dynamic range of 9/10, layered texture, frequent shifts, and dynamic vocals. Relatively few songs occupy this exact corner of the spectrum.

What makes it unusual

What stands out most about this song is a huge quiet-to-loud swing: 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 near-total stillness — steady volume, no surprises, a slow and unhurried pulse — 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

Sleep0/10
Focus1/10
Workout9/10
Dinner4/10
Party / hype8/10

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

2019 in context

The 448 songs we’ve measured from 2019 average a dynamic range of 6.1/10. At 9/10, this track is louder and more dynamic than its year.

Mixes smoothly with

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

The fingerprint

Intensity80
Dynamics89
Tempo44
Surprise75
Density33
Predictability100
Vocal force75
Trigger load0

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

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