Go Behind the Scenes of Tender Misfit’s “Cherry Girl” [Exclusive BTS Photo Set]

There’s something unmistakably hypnotic about Tender Misfit. Maybe it’s the way she stares back at the camera – unbothered, untouched, and in full control. Or maybe it’s the visceral tension humming beneath the surface of her latest visual chapter, ‘Cherry Girl’, now out via Slumbo Labs, the same alt-pop incubator responsible for the early chaos of Isabel LaRosa, Ari Abdul, and Walter the Producer.

But this isn’t about origin stories. ‘Cherry Girl’ feels more like a cult initiation, seductive, strange, and cinematic in the most threatening sense.

In these exclusive behind-the-scenes frames, captured between takes and transformations, Tender Misfit doesn’t break character – she deepens it. The softness of satin sleeves contrasts with the steel in her stare. Lipstick half-worn, heels half-on, body in motion. The photo set is a study in ritual: a cherry-slick femme fatale carving space in a world of men, armed only with choreography and quiet menace.

This aesthetic – equal parts Lynchian pop surrealism and femme-coded rebellion – feels like a necessary rupture in the hyper-glossed, algorithm-fed alt-pop continuum. Tender Misfit isn’t here to play the muse or play it safe; she’s here to bend the expectations, make them bleed, and rebuild something weirder in its place. It’s no surprise that her fanbase, swelling with Gen Z misfits, romantic nihilists, and post-indie kids, is growing faster than the industry can package her.

The video itself unspools like a dark audition tape. Three archetypal men – director, producer, writer – sit in judgment. But as she moves, the power tilts. One by one, Tender Misfit wraps them in invisible binds: wrists caught, minds caught, gazes locked. By the final frame, she’s already left – triumphant, unbothered, a ghost who got the last word.

With over 75K followers and a million+ likes on TikTok, Tender Misfit is more than just a rising name; she’s Gen Z’s patron saint of glitter and vengeance. And ‘Cherry Girl’, her first drop since a national tour with Isabel LaRosa, doesn’t just signal a return. It signals a takeover.

This is performance as power. This is pop with bite. And this is only the beginning.