We featured The Naked & Famous' 'Young Blood' as a Song Of The Day back in May but it's Song Of The Day again today thanks to the remix by tear-inducingly-brilliant Swedish pop duo The Sound Of Arrows.
THE FACTS
- The original was amazing
- The remix is amazing
- Et voila
Neon Gold are putting out 'Young Blood' as a single next week and have given us the Sound Of Arrows mix to give away to You The Popjustice Reader for zero pence.
Are you familiar with noisy Alesha Dixon single 'Drummer Boy'? You should be by now. Here it is.
Now clearly someone somewhere has had a listen to this song and gone "do you know what, this song isn't quite scary enough for fans of the Barlowballad-wailin', mountain-climbin'-for-charity Alesha Dixon. How do we make this so noisy that Alesha's Saturday night telly fans have tears running down their faces as the blood trickles from their ears?".
To this end there are various remixes, none of which could be described as 'very subtle' but precisely half of which can very easily be described as highly listenable.
1. Ed Drewett
We had Ed in the last PJ Almighty but he wasn't at Number One even though he sort of deserved to be, so here he is 'atop' the Almighty today. One of the things we've quite enjoyed watching over the last week or so is Ed linking to YouTube clips of his new single 'Champagne Lemonade', only for his label to then have them taken down. Such is the life of the modern popstar. (We'll try to embed the most recent YouTube clip at the bottom of this post but it might have disappeared by the time you read this.) More Ed Drewett
2. Hurts
On one hand their place in this Almighty is nothing to do with the box that arrived last week. On the other hand their place in this Almighty is everything to do with the box that arrived last week, in much the same way as it is possible to enjoy their album as much for its attention to detail as for its sweeping command of the pop lexicon. More Hurts
3. Robots With Rayguns
We have been enjoying the music of Robots With Rayguns for a little while now. They (he) make(s) and remix(es) tunes that sound like this...
...and this...
...and this.
Amazingly, loads of it (including a full length album of their original stuff) is available on their Soundcloud for free download. More Robots With Rayguns (this is the Soundcloud we just told you about)
4. Alexandra Burke
Recently we heard Dead Or Alive's 'You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)' soundtracking the new TV ad for a breakfast cereal and were forced to consider the irony of Alexandra Burke recording a 2010s pop single that sounded like an 80s Coco-Pops ad jingle, only for a 2010 Coco-Pops TV ad to opt for the soundtrack of... Something from the 1980s. More Alexandra Burke
5. Katy Perry
Her album is around 50% absolutely brilliant. More Katy Perry
666. 'Travie McCoy'
Still responsible for one of the worst singles of 2010. More 'Travie McCoy'
This is (or isn't) the 'Champagne Lemonade' video we mentioned in the Ed Drewett bit.
...and a couple of weeks ago Shakira shot the video in Barcelona. The Sun had some pictures from that but the interesting thing is this fan video of the shoot in which you can hear the song. It is literally a Shakira song with some Dizzee Rascal in it.
You might be wondering why we have not really mentioned this before now (and why now is the right time to mention it) and there is no clear answer we can give you but we thought it was sort of 'of interest' so there you go.
Daily Pop Briefing 
1. Ed Drewett
