"Stompa" is a song performed by Canadian singer/songwriter Serena Ryder. The song was written by Ryder and Jerrod Bettis for Ryder's sixth studio album, Harmony (2012). The song was released as the lead single from the album in September 2012 in Canada, and then in February 2013 in the United States. On February 15, 2013, a French version of the song was released to Canadian iTunes.

Lyrically, the song speaks about how music can be a remedy for most of life's problems -- that people should "clappa" their hands and "stompa" their feet. On the track, Ryder said "it's about encouraging people to get outside of their heads and realize that everybody’s got problems and everybody's got issues and life is hard but music can really help you out".

"Stompa" received mostly favorable reviews, with the Montreal Gazette calling the song "infectious" and "almost Broadway-ready", while the Hamilton Spectator praised the fact that the song could be played on four different radio formats (modern rock, hot adult contemporary, contemporary hit radio and adult contemporary). The Toronto Star also took note of the fact that the song had been playlisted on virtually every single commercial radio station in the Toronto market; in the same article, Astral Media executive Rob Farina described the song as "a mashup of The Black Keys and Adele." The New York Times called it "a new song of summer" for 2013.

However, The Grid writer Elio Iannacci gave the song a negative review, saying the song was "hard to forgive" and "easy to forget".

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