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Cherry Bomb, the Los Angeles-based solo project of MisterWives’ Mandy Lee, returns today with a brand new single, “Sorry You’re Not Sorry”. Continuing her exploration into the glamour of disco pop, the artist turns up the dials on violin pomps and synth melodies to the max to soundtrack her new song about self-love, confidence, and shaking off grief and frustration. It alchemizes heartbreak into heartbeats, pumping all the pain away one dance at a time.
“‘Sorry You’re Not Sorry’ is for the pivotal moment when you stop begging closed doors to open and make peace with the grief that comes with choosing closure over receiving it,” says Lee about the new track. “It’s no surprise pain and pleasure are processed in the same part of the brain and perhaps that’s why I often blur the line between the two in music.”
“Sorry You’re Not Sorry” comes with a colorful new music video of biblical proportions. Featuring the Haus Of Cherry — a troupe of dancers, drag queens, showgirls, and divas — it visually hammers the final nail in Mandy Lee’s coffin for all the guilt she no longer needs to feel. It mirrors the neon, bedazzled world of Cherry Bomb with feather boas, the highest high heels, and the extravagant spirit of ballrooms, channeling the flamboyance of cult classic films like The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet. “The Haus Of Cherry dismantles a world I didn’t feel love and acceptance in,” adds Lee, “and it puts it back together anew with the help of a congregation of divas, a dazzling drag priest, and convent of showgirl nuns.” Shame has no home in Cherry Bomb’s church — only love and community.
Atwood Magazine, who debuted the video, says, “Cherry Bomb transforms heartbreak into high-voltage release on “Sorry You’re Not Sorry,” a dynamic, disco-drenched pop exorcism that channels all the apologies that never came into a glittering, feverish, full-body celebration of self-liberation – cementing Mandy Lee’s new solo project as one of 2026’s freshest, boldest, and most utterly irresistible pop arrivals.” Describing the song itself as “seductive and sparkling” and “lavish, camp-fueled,” Atwood adds “The song’s music video takes that emotional lift-off and blows it into a whole universe…maximalist grandeur and a wicked sense of play.”
Cherry Bomb is also excited to announce her upcoming performance at this year’s All Things Go music festival in New York City. Proud to join the first-ever all women-led lineup for a major musical festival, she’s going to be making her solo debut on September 27, playing alongside powerful indie pop icons and emerging talent like MUNA, Grace Ives, hemlocke springs, and Carly Rae Jepsen. But don’t worry….Much more from the Haus of Cherry is coming sooner than you think!
“Sorry You’re Not Sorry” is a manifesto for Cherry Bomb’s forthcoming music, which aims to transform tears into sweat through energetic synth pop melodies sharpened by anthemic, powerful rock lyrics and vocals. Listeners got a taste of Mandy Lee’s rebellious side with “Digital Girl,” a dizzying Y2K-inspired synth pop single offering fiery resistance to the pressures of modernity. FLOOD Magazine, who debuted the official music video on April 2, says it’s “just as vibrant as the song itself. Immersing the viewer in the colorful world the song establishes with its explosive chorus and underlying ’00s club beat, the video also emphasizes the lyrical themes explored on the single.” They added, “[First single] Never Be Me” had more in common with the modern pop canon as established by Chappell Roan, while its follow-up single “Digital Girl” dipped its toes in the digital-age operatics of Caroline Polachek’s catalog.”
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.”
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 is ready to detonate with her unapologetic, self-loving new anthem, “Sorry You’re Not Sorry.” Join all the fun via Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
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.