Broad Trend: Freedom | Industry Trend: Liberation Pop With her debut solo album The Pursuit of Pleasure, Cherry Bomb explores how Freedom is becoming a powerful theme in personal expression and contemporary pop music. The Los Angeles-based artist, also known as Mandy Lee of MisterWives, combines energetic dance-pop with reflections on grief, guilt, pleasure and self-acceptance. Rather than treating happiness as the absence of pain, she presents joy as a personal choice and li