Madonna is a stressed-out party host on the first single from her forthcoming MDNA – so determined to show her guests the funnest time ever that she winds up snapping champagne flutes in her white-knuckled grip and driving everyone out the door before the clock's struck 10:00. "Give Me All Your Luvin'," written and produced by Madge and her latest Euro-dance collaborator, French DJ Martin Solveig, wants badly to be an irreverent bubblegum romp. It has a perky electro beat, a dippy singsong melody, and a cheerleader chant ("L-U-V, Madonna/Y-O-U, you wanna?") designed to evoke silly-fun pop classics like "Mickey" and "Hollaback Girl." But the tune and the lyrics seem dashed off, and the aggressive, assaultive spunkiness makes you want to run and hide. Not even the presence of two of the world's most reliably irrepressible pop stars, Nicki Minaj and M.I.A., can lift this party out of the doldrums. N-O, thanks: don't wanna.

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.