Hot Song: Nicki Minaj's 'Starships'

If Nicki Minaj's exorcism dramatization at the Grammys was too, er, cerebral, her new single "Starships" (Young Money) balances it out by being enjoyably mindless. Produced by Red One, "Starships" has a generic '90s rave riff at its core and a chorus that could have been done by a dozen or so artists, from Pitbull to Lady Gaga. Oddly, it's Minaj's charismatic verses that save this from being utterly anonymous fun, like she's a guest star on her own song. Nevertheless, it works.