Talk:Cherie Lily

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Wikipedia’s Notability Standards for music proposes specific criteria for Performers and ensembles as well as composers and lyricists, many of which are satisfied by the career of Cherie Lily as substantiated by this article’s citations. Wikipedia's rules require only one be met. Some of them are:

Has been the subject of multiple, non-trivial, published works appearing in sources that are reliable, not self-published, and are independent of the musician or ensemble itself.

As elaborated below, there are at least 31 published items from independent publications that focus specifically on Lily’s career contributions and achievements, and I am also providing 19 sources that discuss the subject substantially without focusing on her as a main subject. These sources include Out (magazine), Time Out (magazine, Vice Media, BrooklynVegan, Get Out! Magazine, Billboard (magazine), Variety (magazine), and Interview (magazine).

Has received non-trivial coverage in independent reliable sources of an international concert tour, or a national concert tour in at least one sovereign country.

Cherie Lily’s presence as a performer in Andrew W.K.’s band during the entirety of the 2010 Warped Tour was mentioned in the press widely (we cited The Orange County Register but feel free to Google many others). The ensemble also performed at Revolution Live (as covered in two articles in New Times Broward-Palm Beach) in Fort Lauderdale and Festival Supreme (photographed for Getty Images) in Los Angeles. As a solo artist, she performed in the Sled Island Music and Arts Festival (covered in The A.V. Club.)

Is an ensemble that contains two or more independently notable musicians, or is a musician who has been a reasonably prominent member of two or more independently notable ensembles.

Cherie Lily has been a member of Andrew W.K.’s live ensemble (which also contained members of Obituary (band)), and To Live and Shave in L.A.. These are both notable based on Wikipedia’s standards.

Has become one of the most prominent representatives of a notable style or the most prominent of the local scene of a city; note that the subject must still meet all ordinary Wikipedia standards, including verifiability.

Cherie Lily’s song “Body” was listed in Resident Advisor’s “A History of Ballroom Anthms in Ten Tracks”

Has performed music for a work of media that is notable, such as a theme for a network television show, performance in a television show or notable film, inclusion on a notable compilation album.

As part of Andrew W.K.’s band, she performed on Conan (talk show). Lily’s “Werk” music video was feature in the Here TV show Just Josh. Her song “Kiss My Lips” was used for a commercial for the MTV dating show The Challenge (TV series).

Has been placed in rotation nationally by a major radio or music television network.

MTV aired their commercial for The Challenge, featuring Cherie Lily’s “Kiss My Lips” frequently, resulting in millions of views. Lily provided backing vocals to the song "Slight Work," a single by Wale (rapper) featuring Big Sean and produced by Diplo. The music video, directed by Chris Brown would be in rotation across various television channels, and the song would be broadcast nationally on the radio many times over. The Presumably, viewers would have also seen Lily prominently featured in the music video for “Music Is Worth Living For” by Andrew W.K. and Marina and The Diamonds's "Primadonna." The video she produced for an Yvie Oddly and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo collaboration was debuted by Entertainment Tonightand has been viewed millions of times.  

Has been a featured subject of a substantial broadcast segment across a national radio or television network.

Easy one. A full biographical/musical section in Here TV’s Just Josh. Three appearances as a featured guest on the show Threesome. A segment on CBS News. Interview on Out Presents.

Has credit for writing or co-writing either lyrics or music for a notable composition.

Interview Magazine staged an interview with Amanda Lepore on the occasion of her song “Tequila.” In the interview, Lily is praised by Lepore as the writer. In Billboard (magazine)’s feature on Kevin Aviance, Lily’s authorship of “Bloodline,” which the piece calls a standout track, is discussed in detail.

Source breakdown below:

Secondary sources – specifically about Cherie Lily

1. "Need To Know: Cherie Lily" ---  Out (magazine)
2. "Cherie Lily Turns the Holidays Into a Sultry Winter Romance on New Single "Turn The Heat Up" Featuring Amanda Lepore and DJ Gomi"  --- BUZZMUSIC
3. "Video premiere: Cherie Lily's new single, "Kiss My Lips""  --- Time Out (magazine)
4. "We Went to Cherie Lily's Album Release Party" --- Vice Media
5. "Cherie Lily EP Release Party @ Santos Party House" --- Xex Magazine
6. "Cherie Lily Album Release Show"  --- Impose (magazine)
7. "Cherie Lily Werks It Out Tonight in NYC | Out.com" --- Out (magazine)
8. "Houserobics Siren, Cherie Lily, Releases New Single with EP to Come"  --- GoPride Chicago
9. "Amanda Lepore, Cherie Lily, and DJ Gomi Redefine Holiday Seduction with New Remix, "Turn The Heat Up"" --- LADYGUNN
10. "Cherie Lily Debuts 'Werk' The Remix EP,' 10/12"  --- BroadwayWorld
11. "Cherie Lily Captures the Excitement of New York Drag Ball in 'WERK' Video -- Premiere".  --- Spinner
12. "The Dripping Wet EP" --Alternative Press (magazine)
13. "WATCH: Cherie Lily "Body" @CherieLily" --- Flavour Magazine
14. "Heart It or Hate It: Cherie Lily's "Body" -- Instinct (magazine)
15. "Dating tips by Cherie Lily @cherielily | Flavourmag" --- Flavourmag
16. "Producing With Ableton Live Packs: Cherie Lily - WinkSound"  --- WinkSound
17. "Review: Cherie Lily releases her new 'SHADE SERVED' single and music video" --- True Hollywood Talk
18. "Interview with Cherie Lily: Fitness queen and dance music artist"  --- The Upcoming
19. "Popnography First Look: Cherie Lily's "Werk" Video" --- Out (magazine)
20. "Cherie Lily Turned Her Rage Into Your New Halloween Anthem" ---   Electro Wow
21. "Cherie Lily Wants You to Kiss Her...Lips" --- Get Out! Magazine
22. "Yes! Work! You Look Fierce! Live It!" --- Splice Today
23. "Cherie Lily Serves Shade" --- Get Out! Magazine
24. ""SHADE SERVED": Halloween Vibes, Dark Beats, and Empowerment Collide in Cherie Lily's New Single and Music Video | Good Star Vibes"  --- Good Star Vibes
25. "Pop Your Cardio Dance Cherry. I Chose Cherie Lily & Mahri Relin for My 1st Time at Body Conceptions!" --- Mizz Fit
26. "Everyone Needs A Bit Of Cherie Lily In Their Life" --- EQ Music
27. "Cherie Lily + House of Ladosha + Dai Burger + Bry'Nt + Samn! + Eric Joppy" --- Time Out (magazine)
28. "Cherie Lily's Werk Out Release Party" --- Time Out (magazine)
29. "The Original/The Remix: Cherie Lily "Werk"" --- Surviving the Golden Age
30. "CMW Questionnaire: Cherie Lily"  --- National Post

Broadcast TV appearances 

1. Just Josh S01:E06 - Episode 6  -- Here TV, available via Tubi
2. Threesome 101 --- by Here TV, wach on Apple TV (streaming service)
3. Threesome 206.--- by Here TV, wach on Apple TV (streaming service)
4. "Threesome (Season 2, Episode 9) on Apple TV" --- by Here TV, wach on Apple TV (streaming service)
5. "Cherie Lily LIVE on CBS New York's TV morning show, THE COUCH!" --- CBS News
6. Out Presents: Face to Face S01:E02 - Episode 2 ---  Out (magazine) Presents via Apple TV
7. "Music Is Worth Living For (Live At Conan On TBS).mp4 | AWKSHARE" --- on Conan (talk show) archived via Youtube
8. "Watch Food Party Season 1 Episode 15 - Zit Butter" --- a Food Party episode by IFC (American TV channel), now on yidio

Secondary sources – substantial mention of Cherie Lily

1. "Kevin Aviance Cements His Legacy With First Solo Album in Over Two Decades: 'Music Saved My Life'" --- Billboard (magazine)
2. "Drag Legend Kevin Aviance Signs With Voss Management After Beyoncé Sample on 'Renaissance' (EXCLUSIVE)"  --- Variety (magazine)
3. "COBRAH and Amanda Lepore on Raving, Tequila, and the Perfect Red Lip" --- Interview (magazine)
4. "A History of Ballroom Anthems in Ten Tracks · Feature ⟋ RA" --- Resident Advisor
5. "New Voss Digital To Center LGBTQ+ Creators and Influencers" --- Out Traveler
6. "Looks: Studio 54 and the Production of Fabulous Nightlife" --- Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture – peer-reviewed journal
7. "Andrew WK - new music, Nardwuar, live shows, a TV show, his own label Skyscraper Music Maker & stuff" --- BrooklynVegan
8. "Club Runway – Circus Disco – 11/19/11" --- LA Weekly
9. "The Hot Sheet: Tig Notaro's "hot lesbian action," Zane Phillips needs a rub-in & all the best LGBTQ+ releases this week" --- Queerty
10. "'Primadonna' Lip-synced by New York's Best and Booziest". --- Out (magazine)
11. "Beat Box: Fall of 2015 Hottest Dance Beats " --- Hotspots Magazine
12. Exclusive: Kevin Aviance Drops Ballroom Anthem ‘Bloodline’ --- Gayety
13. "Video: Andrew WK parties hard on Conan" --- Consequence (publication)
14. "Andrew WK: meet the US's new cultural ambassador to Bahrain" --- The Guardian
15. Lee "Scratch" Perry and Andrew WK - Repentance - In The Studio --- Pitchfork (website) (Lily pictured in a number of shots as part of the recording of the album)
16. "Hard 2 B Cazwell: Homegrown Hip Hopper Releases Album" --- The Rainbow Times
17. "Watch: NSFW Cazwell's Sweet Latin Trap Beat, '¡Spicy!' Is an Ode to the Culo" --- Edge Media Network
18. "Cazwell Dares Us to Dream in 'Dance Like You Got Good  Credit'" --- Out (magazine)
19. "Old reliables shine in Warped Tour heat" --- The Orange County Register
20. "Nardwuar, rock, and Alberta beef: The A.V. Club goes to the Sled Island Music Festival" -- The A.V. Club

Secondary sources – substantial mention of Lily’s work or collaborations, no direct mention

1. "Watch Yvie Oddly and Miss Vanjie's Music Video for 'Hype' (Exclusive)" --- Entertainment Tonight
2. "Andrew WK, Close Calls With Brick Walls" --- The Guardian
3. "The Grief That Shrieked To Multiply - Record Collector Magazine" --- Record Collector
4. "How The Founder Of Voss Events Turned His Love For Nightlife Into A Booming Business" --- Forbes

Primary sources – factual background

1. "Somewhere Fest & Conference bio"
2. "Roster" Chervana Music
3. "Next to Me with Cherie". Soundcloud.
4. Crunch+ by Crunch Fitness | Cherie Lily --- Crunch Fitness
5. MARINA & THE DIAMONDS : Primadonna (ft. Cazwell, Amanda Lepore, Roxy Cottontail and MORE!) [2012] -- YouTube -- Primadonna (Marina and the Diamonds song)
6. "Cherie Lily & Lilipop "Kiss My Lips" for MTV's The Challenge: Battle of the Exes 2" YouTube
7. "Yvie Oddly - READING BOOKS [Official Music Video]" --- Yvie Oddly on YouTube
8.  Yvie Oddly - Hype (feat. Vanessa Vanjie) --- Yvie Oddly on YouTube
9. "Repentance, by Lee "Scratch" Perry" --- Lee "Scratch" Perry’s official Bandcamp
10. "Lee "Scratch" Perry" ---Grammy Awards
11. "The Grief That Shrieked to Multiply" --- To Live and Shave in L.A.’s official Bandcamp.
12. "Cherie Lily" --- Sled Island Music and Arts Festival

FogleMorplethorpe (talk) 05:44, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Summarize Timeline Fact Check

Thank you, editors of all stripes, for viewing this page. I want to provide some important context as I am waiting for this article's passage.

1. The main biographical outline of this article is sourced from independent, trustworthy, and established press outlets, the articles focusing on Cherie Lily as a central subject. This includes industry-leading publications in LGBTQ+ culture (Out Magazine, Get Out!, Edge Media, Here TV) and especially music (Billboard, Vice, Impose, Xex, Alt Press, TimeOut, Resident Advisor, BrooklynVegan, LA Weekly). Some non-editorial music merchant or industry websites (Spotify, Itunes, GRAMMYs, Discogs) are used to provide trustworthy credit background to Lily's collaborations with high-notoriety artists - EDIT: all of which are cited with significant secondary sources. A couple YouTube videos posted by Lily or her label should be seen as archives of televised coverage (CBS fitness segment, live performance as part of Andrew W.K.'s band on Conan on TBS [EDIT: now using the Andrew W.K. archives website rather than YouTube], MTV reality show commercial featuring Lily's song, a Pitchfork mini-doc featuring Lily in a recording session for a Grammy-nominated album, her appearance in the music video for Marina & The Diammonds's "Primadonna" - a hit which has its own Wiki page).
2. I want to stress the notoriety of the collaborators and clients mentioned throughout the article. All of them have their own Wikipedia pages, demonstrating each of their levels of notoriety. Many participated in Rupaul's Drag Race, a TV show nicknamed "the Super Bowl of Drag," which is both an indication of and contributor to their notoriety. Yvie Oddly, one of Cherie Lily's frequent musical collaborators and mentioned twice in this article, won the show, as did her Voss Events client Willow Pill. That said, a number of collaborating artists (Cazwell, Andrew W.K., Kevin Aviance, Amanda Lepore, Lee "Scratch" Perry) had notoriety established before the show ever went to air. EDIT: The collaborative works (meaning Lily was a featured artist or producer on the song/video) here are covered by secondary sources, and most of those mention Lily by name, quoting her or praising her abilities.
3. Cherie Lily's name is often mentioned in celebrity gossip or lifestyle publications, often her relation to her previous marriage to musician Andrew W.K. (who is currently in a relationship with another famous entertainer). However, most of these would not qualify as citations given that they only mention Lily in passing and provide no additional biographical context to Lily's (or W.K.'s) story. Therefore this article's discussion of Andrew W.K. focuses on Cherie Lily's core musical collaborations with him (there are others), which are well-substantiated and notorious by Wikipedia's standards. By and large, celebrity gossip or lifestyle articles that mention Lily are not included among this articles many references.

EDIT: I understand that the conflict of interest here means a higher bar to clear, which is why I have put so many secondary sources here. But at this point, reviewing editors are sending mixed messages; telling me to cut down on sources while simultaneously urging me to provide more. I have tried to thread this needle by providing a volume of secondary, trustworthy sources that exceeds that of your typical music article. Notwithstanding the COI, about which I have been transparent from the beginning, it's hard to imagine that musician with two features about them in Out Magazine, recently written up for producing a standout track in Billboard, a song featured on a television commercial by a major network, features on both a news show (CBS) and FIVE episodes of televised interview shows (Just Josh, Out Presents Face To Face, 3 episodes of Threesome), a live performance on Conan O'Brien, production credits for Amanda Lepore and Drag Race winners, and a musical contribution to a Grammy-nominated album, would be denied.

~2025-35107-78 (talk) 16:50, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: Article has now been resubmitted with a source breakdown, as well as a discussion of several of Wikipedia's notability standards that the subject of this article satisfies handily. PLEASE read the talk section. I would submit that the ideal reviewer is familiar, pop music, and/or LGBTQ culture. FogleMorplethorpe (talk) 1:47, 10 April 2026 (EST)

• Comment: Article will be resubmitted with a source breakdown in the Talk section. FogleMorplethorpe (talk) 20:03, 22 February 2026 (EST)

• Comment: Reviewers, PLEASE consult my notes in the talk section before reviewing. Important information regarding citation and context is there. Contrary to the last reviewer's comments, only 7 of the 71 (as of Feb 9 '26) citations refer to contestants on Drag Race, only 4 of the sources dircetly mention the show. Neither Cherie Lily, nor Andrew W.K., nor Lee "Scratch" Perry, nor Cazwell, nor Kevin Aviance, nor Amanda Lepore, nor Vjuan Allure are contestants on or employees of Rupaul's Drag Race. The Wikipedia pages for each of these artists is linked for your convenience. I humbly request that any editor reviewing have some familiarity with pop and rock music, drag performance, and LGBTQ culture. FogleMorplethorpe (talk) 15:5, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Holy WP:REFBOMB Sulfurboy (talk) 08:52, 25 July 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Source Analysis of all 71 sources can be seen here User_talk:FogleMorplethorpe#Your_submission_at_Articles_for_creation:_Cherie_Lily_(January_29). RangersRus (talk) 23:53, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Most of the sources are around her work for contestants of Ru Paul Drag show. Excessive ref bombing with sources with no significant indepth coverage. We need to see the subject's substantial achievements that are noteworthy for a standalone article. RangersRus (talk) 11:11, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: I've taken a look and won't accept or decline. This is a difficult one for me - I've looked through the first few sections of references and I'm not sure which ones actually pass GNG, but there does seem to be some semblance of notability here. I kind of want to know which are the best WP:THREE sources. SportingFlyer T·C 16:03, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Reviewers, please look at the talk section for information you may find helpful regarding sourcing and notoriety. FogleMorplethorpe^C 11:06, 6 January 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Try to cut down the sources and the article. Primary sources usually shouldn't be used (e.g. from her youtube) for the majority of the statements. There are reliable sources here though, like news articles with lots of coverage from reliable outlets, so try to prioritize information from those. HurricaneZeta^C 14:59, 28 December 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have been paid by my employer for my contributions to this article. FogleMorplethorpe (talk) 07:09, 31 October 2025 (UTC)