Cherry Bomb and her latest explosive release, "Digital Girl"

Misterwives frontwoman, Mandy Lee, has been taking the world by storm lately through her recent take on a solo project, Cherry Bomb. Cherry Bomb is an explosion of glitter and sparkles, taking you back into time as she draws inspiration from icons like Madonna and Blondie. She is the fierce, rebellious, and radical queen you never knew you needed until now. She just dropped her second release, named “Digital Girl,” and it’s a Y2K banger if you relate to overthinking but want to be seen just for who you are. This self-expressive project is meant to bridge us back to who she wants to be seen as and not what the world told her to be. This project is not her reinventing herself but a detonation for what the world defined her to be and show us her true colors, Cherry Bomb. 

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This pop-drenched catchy bop is a reference to “Material Girl” but for this century, in a time that is so dependent on gadgets and constantly needs to be online. This vibrant, bubbling, and fiery song is underlined with 2000’s beats emphasizing the ideas of struggles between being a musician & just a person in today's age. Today, we expect our reality to match the online presence everyone posts, the good, the fun, and the exciting. But real life isn’t always that perfect. No one posts the dark, the scary, and the sad because no one wants to show those moments, the times of imperfection, because why does anyone care? Alternatively, why would we want people to know about struggles? 

Cherry Bomb notes that this project is meant to ignite the spark and fuel the unapologetic energy needed to push forward fighting, rejecting the norms of society that are constantly pressured upon us, the ideas that we should always be happy and smiling to the universe. She is reaching back to bring her own flair to Y2K energy and raging to the world. “Digital Girl” is a love & hate confessional to the world about her dreams and how much we are expected to sacrifice our true selves to be accepted. Visually, she wants to showcase the tension between the two and what happens when they collide together into one expression. 

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“Digital Girl” is the song you hear once, and it is forever stuck in your brain as a constant reminder. I think that is on purpose because the message is important. We must remember our lives and what defines who we are inside is not the digital version of us; we live in the real world, and the virtual creation is not who we are. The happy, sappy posts we make on social media are not accurate because life is messy. The mess is what makes us who we are. 

“I don’t think I fit into this digital world. They tell me to be a material girl.” I absolutely love the opening lyrics in this song, which directly reference “Material Girl.” It’s such a deep and complex idea of this song countering that song. It’s a choice because that song is iconic, but those times were different, the world is different, but somehow our expectations of ourselves are the same, unrealistic. “Digital Girl” is such a fun beat, and you should definitely give it a listen because it’s sure to become your next song on repeat.