And the song at No. 8 has enough sass, pluck, and bubbly keyboards to lift an entire room filled with Gloomy Guses.

In keeping with my 2007 tradition of “loving music that could most accurately be described as ‘pop’ if only it’d actually get played on American radio,” I spun Sissy Wish’s “Float” approximately 8,493 times^* this year, thanks to its note-perfect fusion of “don’t let the world get you down” sentiment and ridiculous, rom-com-montage-ready catchiness. That’s not to say it doesn’t get a little bit wild here and there; the manic “na na na”s dropped into some of the verses, the key change, and the voices-coming-at-you-from-all-sides bridge are all signs that this this track may be one of the best aural depictions of a Major Life Turning Point committed to tape. Yet throughout, the song’s lyrical insistence that you can, in fact, make it if you try–coupled with its singsong melody–signals that all will be right, or at least worth humming along with, as soon as you pick yourself up and dust your troubles off from wherever they might have landed on your person.

Sissy Wish – Float [YouTube]
Sissy Wish [MySpace]
Idolator’s 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness

^* OK, slight exaggeration. But it did get the “frequent iTunes repeat” treatment a lot.