You Never Knew What These Misunderstood Songs Were Really About

By Shruti

‘Cherry Bomb’ – The Runaways

This next song isn’t quite misunderstood lyrically, but the story of its creation is. The Runaways’ “Cherry Bomb” is an all-time classic rock song, and the by-far biggest hit of Hall of Famer Joan Jett, but it wasn’t written to be one and the band didn’t build their catalogue around it.

In fact, the song was actually written in “about five minutes” according to the band’s manager Kim Fowley. According to Fowley, he and Jett wrote the song for future-band member Cherie Currie’s audition because the rest of the Runaways didn’t know the song Currie wanted to sing.