Cherry Lips

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"Cherry Lips"
Single by Garbage
from the album Beautiful Garbage
B-side
  • "Enough Is Never Enough"
  • "Use Me"
ReleasedJanuary 7, 2002
RecordedApril–May 2001
StudioSarm (Madison, Wisconsin)
GenreAlternative rock
Length3:11
LabelMushroom UK
Songwriter(s)Garbage
Producer(s)Garbage
Garbage singles chronology
"Androgyny"
(2001) 		"Cherry Lips"
(2002) 		"Breaking Up the Girl"
(2002)

"Cherry Lips", also known as "Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)" is a song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock group Garbage for their third studio album, Beautiful Garbage. It was released in early 2002 by Mushroom Records as second single from the album, with the exception of North America, where Interscope issued "Breaking Up the Girl" instead. In the years since release, "Cherry Lips" has become an enduring track for the band, an alternative rock LGBTQ anthem,[1] and after almost two decades continues to resonate, being used as the home run song of the Milwaukee Brewers and in advertisement campaigns for Microsoft's Surface Go laptop tablets.[2]

"Cherry Lips" faltered in major markets, but was a huge hit in Italy, where it had been the sound of a prominent winter marketing campaign for Breil Stones, reaching No. 8 on the Italian charts.[3] Like lead single "Androgyny", "Cherry Lips" was a success in New Zealand and Australia, where it became Garbage's biggest hit single, spending five non-consecutive weeks in the top ten. "Cherry Lips" was ultimately certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association.[4]

As the first Garbage single fully released in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the band donated a percentage of the royalties generated from the sales of "Cherry Lips" to the International Red Cross.[5]

  1. ^ Bendix, Trish (September 20, 2017). "25 Songs About Gender Identity". Billboard.
  2. ^ "Microsoft Surface Go TV Commercial, 'The Salmon Sisters' Song by Garbage". iSpotTV. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference BREIL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2002 Singles". ARIA.com.au. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2011.
  5. ^ "Garbage "Cherry Lips" MUSH98CDSE". Belgium: Mushroom Records/PIAS. Retrieved July 24, 2011. A portion of the proceeds of this sale will go to the International Red Cross[permanent dead link‍]