Cherry Pie

The lyrics and video are quite comical because they are so obviously about sex. Warrant got away with it because the sexual imagery had double meanings: There was no way to prove they weren't singing about an actual pie.

In a 1992 interview with BAM magazine, Warrant's songwriter/frontman Jani Lane said: "A blessing and a curse, that song. I had fun writing it, all 20 minutes. And I had fun singing it. Unfortunately, the song rubbed some people the wrong way. And, of course, the whole title got out of control. It became the album title, the first video... Cherry Pie this, Cherry Pie that. I had fun recording the tune, but it’s probably the last of its type in our repertoire."

The song was written and recorded in a matter of days in a bid to satisfy their label bosses after the band had wrapped up and turned in their album. Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon told Rock AAA: "That record was done and the president of Columbia Records thought we need one more song, an upbeat anthem kinda like 'We Will Rock You' chanting kind of song. A couple of days later 'Cherry Pie' was written, we set everything up, recorded it and there wasn't a lot of thought put into it.It was a last minute thing so for it to turn into of the biggest things we ever did was crazy – maybe we should have done them all like that.In my opinion a hit is something that is contrived when a label shoves a song down your throat and has radio playing it. It is really just people hearing it over and over. Yes, it has to be a good song but if you hear something enough and people tell you enough times something is a hit – then it will be a hit."