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Modest Mouse's breakthrough single arrived on 8th March 2004 as the lead track from their fourth album 'Good News for People Who Love Bad News'. The song topped the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock, marking the band's crossover into the mainstream after years on the independent circuit.
The lyric catalogues a string of minor disasters, a car backed into a police vehicle, a con artist's scam, simultaneous job losses, before each verse resolves into the mantra 'we'll all float on'. What reads as breezy optimism carries a darker undertone, the repetition suggesting less a genuine pep talk than an attempt to write away the negativity that surrounded the song's creation. The accompanying video made the ambivalence plain, following a flock of sheep inadvertently carried to slaughter.
The track became indisputably Modest Mouse's most popular song, a piece of advice to look at the bright side no matter what happens, delivered with enough irony to keep the sentiment from curdling into platitude.
"Float On" is a single by Modest Mouse, from the album Good News for People Who Love Bad News, released 5th April 2004. The track is 3:28 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 4 articles about Modest Mouse.
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