VS Fashion Show: Live Updates!

Yes it is finally time for every girl to think about what she ate today and then look down at her feet and realize how unflattering her ankles look in her socks! Okay, okay, get it together!

9:00 So Taylor you know I love you, but girlfriend looks like she's marrying Uncle Sam tomorrow and cheating on him with Big Ben tonight. Taylor, you're too good for this.

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9:11 SAY SOMETHING I'm giving up on... My will to have an appetite. No, I'm being dramatic. I love food too much. But can we say how beautiful of a song this was? Wow. I guess Christina Aguilera wasn't able to sing on the song tonight with A Great Big World. Sigh. Her hair is so big, it's always so full of secrets.

9:18 I love the behind the scenes aspect! It makes the models seem so... Personable. Okay, Adriana (my girl) you are the star. It's no wonder they have you dressed like Icarus, the god who flew too close to the Sun. WE'RE NOT WORTHY.

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9:22 I'm LOVING the long gloves trend. It's making knee highs look old school. Great touch!

Cara Delasagne does glove glam right.

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9:29 I've noticed the hair is a little different this year. Instead of the long big curled locks we've all come to know (and try to simulate when we know our ex is going to be at the same shin dig) tonight we're seeing a shoulder length of more natural appearing beach curls. (There's even a bob!) This makes the girls look less Barbie and more fun!

9:33 Birds of Paradise: Wasn't it touching how all the girls rallied behind the girl who twisted her ankle last year?! "If I fall tonight, I'll let my wings carry me..." Or whatever. MODELS ARE SO SWEET. 

Wait for it.... Okay thank you she didn't fall (again)

Were you secretly hoping she would? 

Personally I love the comradery this year! 

Side note: I'm really hoping Taylor comes out dressed as a VS model. I just think those legs shouldn't be put to waste. And it would totally kill John, the 1 direction kid, Joe, Werewolf Taylor, the Kennedy etc, etc, etc...

9:43 I thought for a moment Spice Girls reunited! "If you wanna be my lover you gotta get with my friends!" Oh 1997! But it's 2013 and I suppose the fashion show is a great way to introduce new artists. Are they new? Or do I just not understand British humor?

I'm digging the retro 70's far out style but this could have gone so much better with Bruno Mars' Treasure. Right?

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9:52 The Aztec silver glitter dress resonated with me. Ice goddess warrior Taylor! The only trouble I saw is why she wasn't wearing wings with all rest of the girls?! But I did love all the fun flirty playfulness. There was this one moment that I absolutely adored. When she held hands with Lily Aldridge... GIRL POWER.

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FINAL THOUGHTS: The best part of the 2013 Victoria Secret Fashion Show was the interviews with the girls. It made them less body and more like... Me. It showed us how these girls are more like us than we think. Sure they go to Paris and pose in front of the Eiffel Tower but they're fun, friendly and goofy. Too often young women get wrapped up in the idea of a "perfect woman." We saw tonight that no one is perfect. We fall, we laugh, we get up and we all LOVE Taylor Swift. The fashion show tonight wasn't to set woman back, it was to amplify the movement that our sexuality does not only define us. Who we are as genuine individuals and our self integrity is what truly make us sexy. I said it once, I'll say it again: GIRL POWER!

7 Beloved TV Opening Theme Songs (as told by a 90's love child)

7. "Falling" Twin Peaks

The eerie instrumental score was produced by Angelo Badalementi and is used throughout the David Lynch surrealistic crime drama. The song draws you into the dark side of America's suburbia and the slow progression of the ambient jazz compels the mind to wander from calm to sinister. Take a listen, you'll thank me later.

Although the series premiered the year I was born to a pair of hippie parents (the year of the horse to be exact) its always reflected a sense of nostalgia, remembering that love is as much agony as it is pleasuring.

6. 7th Heaven theme song

The Camdens sure gave us a reason to cry, laugh and wonder how in the world can one family be so annoyingly close despite going through every single problem imaginable? My own childhood pastor's life is so inadequate in comparison. He once told me I needed to re-watch The Passion of The Christ. (I was twelve, and even I understood how weird that was.) However, the Cammies on the other hand just couldn't resist running down the staircase and hugging each other while Mary played with her basketball to the happiest gung ho song that will forever be embedded into our hearts.

5. "Superman" Scrubs

"I don't want no scrub, unless the scrub is a man who can hold my purse patiently." (The original TLC lyrics)

But we're not talking about hobos and 21 year old college guys who can barely afford beer that end with the word "light." No, this is about one of the best long running television comedies and their simplistic feel-good theme song, Superman by Lazlo Bane which marries the show's slapstick humor. Here's to drinking beer that doesn't remind me of freshmen year awkwardness!

4. "How Soon Is Now" Charmed

What do you do when you need a song to help portray The Power of Three? You give The Smiths a ring from across the pond. They were probably eating crumpets and drinking tea. They get so annoyed when you call them during tea time. Can't grown men drink tea in peace? The answer is no, no they can not... because the song became immortalized as the sound of one of the most popular si-fi dramas of all time. 

Let's be clear, Paige was so much better than Prue. I mean, right?

3. "You're Standing on My Neck" Daria 

This theme song was just as entertaining as the opening sequence it was paired to. 
Well played, MTV. 

Splendora's post-grundge alternative hit was used to send it's own message:

Daria is the smart outcast, the anti-cheerleader, the foil. It is in the song's monotone attitude which reveals how Daria's differences make her truly expressive. Daria, can you please give me a course in coolness? I think I could make a solid B. I'm told I have a bubbly personality, I know... so not cool. 

2. "Here With Me" Roswell

I can't hold this in. ROSWELL IS JUST THE BEST. TEAM ROSWELL. LETS TAKE A TRIP TO ROSWELL, GUYS. Okay, now that that's all done... wait, no it not. RW4LIFE.

Sorry you guys, I promised myself I wouldn't do that. Moving on, this series opens with Dido's "Here With Me" which drives the desire between the characters search for truth, love and family.

1. "I Don't Want to Wait" Dawson's Creek

You know those songs that play at Chili's and you think "Didn't this come out when I was in 4th grade?" Then you continue to romanticize how awesome it was to feel stress free, except for that one time your brother tore down your Hanson poster where all the brothers had milk mustaches and it read Got Milk? THAT WAS HARD.
That doesn't touch the reminiscence that comes along with Paula Cole's "I Don't Want to Wait." The song defines a series that defined a generation. What the teens didn't want to wait on was definitely sex and exploring their sexuality became a main focus. 

After one particular episode I asked my mom what "condom" meant. Dawson, Joey and the third wheel guy weren't the only ones learning about sex that day. (Cue awkward silence.) 

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