Cherry Bomb – Digital Girl
CHERRY BOMB
RAGES AGAINST THE MACHINE WITH Y2K-INSPIRED ANTHEM
“DIGITAL GIRL”
OUT NOW VIA AWAL–LISTEN
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MISTERWIVES’ MANDY LEE’S GLITTERING SOLO PROJECT
Cherry Bomb, the Los Angeles-based solo project of MisterWives’ Mandy Lee throws a Y2K party with a confessional, pop-drenched tune “Digital Girl” out today via AWAL. Underneath the pulsing beat and crisp vocals, Lee earnestly chronicles the pains of keeping up with an increasingly automated, algorithmic world as an artist.
LISTEN: “Digital Girl“
With a reference to Madonna’s “Material Girl,” made for 2026 on the bubbling Y2K earworm, the track details the real struggles of being both a musician and a person today. Speaking on the contrived displays of perfection on social media and pressures of constant self-promotion, Lee explains, “‘Digital Girl‘ asks how far are you willing to go for your dreams and at what cost?
In this Information Age where the pressures of perfection and an unsustainable quantity over quality are constantly burning out not just artists but everyone who is plugged in, it’s impossible to not romanticize unplugging entirely.”
Torn between keeping up and giving up on the broken system, but ultimately choosing to chase her passion and find love within, Lee continues, “Remembering a time when you could tour without social media to adapting to social media now becoming an algorithmic gatekeeper for musicians while the charts are riddled with AI-generated songs leaves you at a crossroads of having to partake in the systems you hate for the sake of what you love.”
Earlier this year, Lee unveiled Cherry Bomb with the splashy, upbeat banger “Never Be Me (M★ther★cker).” PAPER Magazine, who debuted the video, wrote, “The track is pop perfection, chronicling her departure from her old life and excitement for the road ahead. Her fluttering vocals that earworm synths define this genre she’s calling “popera.” Adding, the video, “highlights bright, DIY-ed costumes and the feminine energy-filled community that’s helped her reach these new heights.”
LISTEN: “Never Be Me (M★ther★cker)“
WATCH: “Never Be Me (M★ther★cker)“
For over a decade, Mandy Lee has led alt-pop band MisterWives with her distinctly compelling vocals and commanding stage presence–including several tours, festivals around the world and four official studio albums, one live album and one deluxe album. Now, Lee is ready to shape a sonic universe that completely her own–blending party with the profound.
Cherry Bomb brings her own flair to Y2K nostalgia with the infectious “Digital Girl” out now. Join all the fun via Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
ABOUT CHERRY BOMB
Mandy Lee is stepping into her power with Cherry Bomb — a fierce, glitter-soaked solo project born from rebellion, heartbreak, and radical self-expression. Best known as the powerhouse frontwoman of MisterWives, Lee uses Cherry Bomb as a bridge to get back to who she was before the world told her who to be.
Lee lights on the fuse on her first single, the space disco banger “Never Be Me,” which she calls “a declaration of independence about shedding a loveless love. I came home that night from working on the song and just had it blasting in my headphones, dancing around my house alone. It just felt so cathartic.”
Cherry Bomb’s second release “Digital Girl” is a confetti-covered, glitching TV fuzz, y2k party champagne-soaked banger for the overstimulated over-thinkers who just want to be seen for their true colors. In a world dragged around by social media likes that go up in tandem with insecurity driven self doubt, Cherry Bomb is raging against the machine in full technicolor with an unbreakable love from within.
Inspired by icons like Madonna and Blondie, the music fuses space disco, punk spirit, and diary-like confessionals into a sound that’s both danceable and defiant. This isn’t a reinvention — it’s a detonation.
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