Bottom/ "Rocket" is a synthpop song by the English duo Goldfrapp from their fifth studio album, Head First (Mute, 2010). Barry Nicolson from the NME described it as "a sleek, synth-powered ballistic missile that's high on Pat Benatar's hairspray and in possesion [sic] of a chorus so cheesy and ebullient." BBC Music's Ian Wade felt that the song "couldn't be more 80s if it arrived sweaty from a Jane Fonda workout, dressed in neon leg warmers and a fashionably ripped Van Halen t-shirt." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said that the song "carries the influence of Olivia Newton-John and the Electric Light Orchestra's Xanadu. The kind of euphoric we've-just-won-the-World-Cup synthesizer fanfares that power both Van Halen's "Jump" and PhD's "I Won't Let You Down" abound, there's the occasional hint of Tango in the Night-era Fleetwood Mac, and you're never that far from a conjunction of wobbling electronics and anthemic chorus that recalls Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder's "Together in Electric Dreams"."
Top/ Head First received mostly positive reviews, with most critics noting its heavy influence of 1980s music. Heather Phares of Allmusic stated that the duo "explore the über-glossy productions, staccato melodies, and dramatic key shifts that were the hallmarks of anthems that some might not want to admit they liked decades later".
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