R.I.P. Jani Lane of Warrant

by Steven Hyden August 12, 2011

Jani Lane of ’80s glam metal band Warrant was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room Thursday night. He was 47. Authorities discovered Lane’s body after responding to a call around 5:30 p.m. at a Comfort Inn in Woodland Hills. No official cause of death has been released.
As Lane likely would have suspected (or feared), the song that keeps getting mentioned in his obituaries today is “Cherry Pie,” an archetypical hair band anthem and the title track from Warrant’s double-platinum 1990 album. Released toward the end of glam’s commercial peak, “Cherry Pie” epitomized an era of leeringly sexist, macho rock music that many were glad to see end with the onset of grunge just one year later. But taken out of the context of the times, “Cherry Pie” just seems like a fun, harmlessly dumb party song, and one of the few metal jams of the time that you can sing at karaoke night without blowing out your upper register.

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