As for fighting off the stereotypes girl bands get and must deal with, Amy says, “I think that the record companies pick the girl bands who they think are going to play girly music most of the time so they can promote them as a girly band.  I think that bands like the Runaways and L7 and all of those are trying to break the stereotype and it’s still kind of hard to do.”  Rose said, “A lot of people want to put us in a stereotype because we’re a good looking band, you know, but we’re not going to wear pumps and heels and shit because a record company wants to sell our album if we put on a bustier.  We’re going to still be doing this like this because what you see is what you get, you know?  We dress how we want on stage, we wear what we want, we act like us, but I don’t think any of us would be comfortable with a bustier and high heels and playing like that on stage or whatever. It’s like, if I wanted to do something then I’m going to do it and I don’t listen to what other people tell me to do.  That’s totally a put on and fuck that shit.  Our goal is to play music and make it good for our fans.  We have the best fans in the world.  We do.  I can honestly say that.  I guess our goal is to get more of them and expand to different areas and keep having a good experience with all of them at all of our shows.  To just have a good show and keep rockin’.”

With such an explosive chemistry and the firey new material, what triggers it all?   “Everyone in the band brings together a different background in music and they draw strength from their diversity,” Rose said.  “None of us like the same thing.  That’s a fact right there.  If I like something then they hate it, but at the same time with us being so picky about our own styles is what makes us stand out because if we don’t like something then we’re not afraid to say so and go OK, let’s change it and that is what makes us unique.  We just don’t go, OK, that’s all right.  It’s because of the fact that we’re so different and we’re real strong headed that is why our songs come out real good.  We each pick apart what we are playing.”  Jen said, “We’re forced to find something that works together.  It ends up sounding a little different.  You know a lot of people, different bands, you will hear their stuff and they’ve got a style that runs through everything.  A lot of people think that is real cool, and I think it is too; that it isn’t part of our style is the fact that we always try different shit.  We’ve got so many different influences and likes that we experiment with them all.  We like AC/DC and then we like Hendrix and then we like the Ramones, and Sex Pistols and Aerosmith.”

For those who think that being in an all-girl band is an advantage, it does have its drawbacks.  Cherry Bomb believes that the strength to overcome setbacks is from their fans that can relate to them and push them forward.  Rose said, “I think you have the advantage with the fans because they will all go out and see if we can play or not and people come, and once they come they are captured and almost always will keep coming back.  It goes too, that if there was another girl in our band we wouldn’t be in the same band.  It just wouldn’t because the chemistry changes and I don’t know what that would be but his chemistry we have works, and that we are all girls, that helps.  Like I said, in the fan’s point of view.  The clubs will take us because they see “all girls”, but at the same time the intimidation thing comes in, ‘oh, they are all girls, we can intimidate them and they are not going to get what they think they should get because they don’t know anything about rock and roll because girls don’t know shit.”  Jen said, “It seems that most of the time people who come to see us like us and will come back.  We play honest music.  I mean, we’re honest about what we play and we are not trying to follow any trends and we’re not L7 and we’re not Phantom Blue, and were not the Bangels.  A lot of the girl bands that I’ve been exposed to, frankly, honestly, I think suck.  There are some really good ones too, though.  They all have something to say, but I personally don’t think it has to do with the fact that they are all girls because there are a lot of guy bands that suck too."