7 Things I Didn't Expect to Learn From the Cruel Intentions Musical

I remember seeing Cruel Intentions as a kid at camp, and hands down everyone’s favorite scene was when Annette (Reese Witherspoon) loses her virginity to Sebastian (scored to "Colorblind" by Counting Crows) because it's beautiful and also sexy. The musical stages this scene perfectly with the signature song, and for the first time I understood the lyrics, “I am covered in skin, no one gets to come in.” That is dating essentially, isn’t it? We all have walls, and gradually we let them down to our partner, until we are vulnerable.