This eight-minute-plus minimix – made to soundtrack a Paris fashion show – is as buoyant as anything M.I.A.'s done in a while. It shifts from South Asia-steeped stomp to a gonzo-electro track that's like Q*bert dancing on a hot plate, as M.I.A. rocks some excellent jump-rope vocalese and asks, "Do you like my perfume?/Made it at home with some gasoline and shrooms." Smells like victory.

“Time to Pretend”

Listening to MGMT’s breakthrough song, one might interpret it as being about the excesses of rock stardom, but it’s actually about the duo’s pet praying mantis. Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden told Rolling Stone they got the idea from the insect's jerky movements. The mantis died, but the two bandmates kept the egg sack and allowed the hundreds of eggs to hatch. “We tried to name them all, but they died after a day,” said Goldwasser, with VanWyngarden chiming in, “But the praying mantis dance inspired us.”