 Alexis Petridis from The Guardian listed the song as the weakest effort on MDNA , adding that " its position as the album 's lead single seems to have had more to do with showing off the presence of Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. than its featherweight melody . " A writer for Virgin Media gave the song three out of five stars , writing : " Like most Madonna singles , it skips along at a furious pace with a gleam in its eye , but the self @-@ references get tiresome and ultimately she is just trying too hard . " Nick Levine , writing for The National , relegated the track as a " lighter pop morsel " . Matthew Parpetua from Pitchfork Media panned the song , saying that Solveig 's production on the track was paired with equally " bland lyrics " . Brad O 'Mancey from Popjustice declared that the track was " proof that sometimes you can listen to something many , many times and still not have any idea whether it 's any good or not . " Chicago Tribune journalist Greg Kot was disappointed with the song and its lyrics , which he found to be meaningless , while Bernard Zuel of The Sydney Morning Herald relegated it as " trite and disposable " . Alex Macpherson from Fact found the song to be " sheer misconceived awfulness " . 
