Sharing Different Heartbeats: Annie, The Knife, Robyn, Jose Gonzalez, A-Trak + Kanye, Grizzly Bear…

Sharing Different Heartbeats: Annie, The Knife, Robyn, Jose Gonzalez, A-Trak + Kanye, Grizzly Bear, Girls Aloud

Emily Yoshida’s pick for Grantland’s “Best Rejected Songs of the Millennium” (a solid addendum to the now-criminal bracket) reminded me of this holiest trinity of mid-2000’s alt-pop, which is never not worth revisiting.

After the jump, some of their hot cousins: the honestly great A-Trak mashup of “Heartbeats” + Kanye’s “Get ’Em High,” the coy Girl Talk mashup of the Knife with “Knife” by Grizzly Bear, the gorgeous Jose Gonzalez “Heartbeats” cover, the melodramatic, tween-friendly Girls Aloud cover of “With Every Heartbeat,” and the totally unrelated but fantastic Nneka song from 2008, also called “Heartbeat.”