“What Is Sexy?” Victoria’s Secret asks us, as Oasis’ raunchy “Hung In A Bad Place” crunches in the background. But the question in rhetorical. Reality and Wal-Mart models don’t sell pricey underthings. Victoria’s Secret answers its own question, representing ‘sexy’ as a woman lounging in a strobe-lit airplane hangar, wearing little more than her bare essentials and a pair of stiletto heels. The ad might as well pry your eyes open with toothpicks and punch you in the face with boobs and butts. Much like the Gallagher brothers, subtlety isn’t one of Victoria’s strongest character traits.
But today is Halloween, not Valentine’s Day. Which makes us wonder: what is scary?