Warrant’s “Cherry Pie”, The Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb”, Hozier’s “Cherry Wine”… There’s a reason why so many artists — spanning decades and genres — are inspired by one commonplace fruit. On the one hand, cherries represent the simple sweetness of youth and capture the heady nostalgia of long summer days (life is but a bowl of cherries, after all). On the other, they’re shorthand for sex, seduction, and a loss of innocence (think the sultry lyrics of Lana Del Rey or Twin Peaks’ Audrey Horne tying a cherry stem with her tongue).
