Let’s Pretend It’s 2005 and Read Teen Vogue

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

Society & Culture, History, Tv & Film

4.6 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Grab your Lip Smackers and your flat iron, because this week on RAM Pop Culture, we’re cracking open our Teen Vogue archives and heading straight back to 2007. It’s a full on glossy magazine sleepover as we rediscover the quizzes, cover girls, and chaos that defined an era. We take you through the “What Kind of Best Friend Are You?” quiz (are you a Selena, Blake, Zendaya, or Lindsay?), and of course play “Would You Rather: Teen Edition” We talk about the power of teen magazines in shaping our identities, political stances, and the performative perfection of the “It Girl,” and how every friendship in your teens felt like a cover story. From Juicy Couture tracksuits to the “Young Hollywood” issue, from Zac Efron prom fantasies to finding yourself in the MySpace age , it’s our love letter to that formative, lip-gloss-sticky chapter of growing up. This magazine shaped us and Claire was even in it! Because at the end of the day… history is just gossip, especially when it’s written in pink gel pen. RIP to a LEGENDARY magazine! Created and produced by Claire Donald and Tess Bellomo For more RAM, go ⁠here.⁠ Join our premium channel for 3 bonus eps a month ⁠here⁠ and save 15% when you buy annually! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.3	Welcome back to Right Answers Mostly Pop Culture Edition.
0:59.6	My name is Claire Donald.
1:01.2	My name is Tess Falamo.
1:03.3	You guys, we have some sad news.
1:05.9	We need to make the announcement officially.
1:08.5	Teen Vogue is folding.
1:10.7	And we have been through enough. I actually was thinking earlier,
1:14.7	okay, so within a month, we have lost Teen Vogue and MTV. It's really, it feels personal at this point.
1:22.0	That's what I was thinking. It feels personal. And if you guys don't know, we have an MTV episode
1:26.7	all about the history of MTV.
1:28.2	So hey, give it a listen because everything is falling apart. No, truly. I just like didn't think
1:34.2	that we could take one more thing in 2025. But because of all of this, Tess and I were like,
1:38.7	I feel like Teen Vogue needs its own special episode for pop culture.
1:47.8	It's just so nostalgic and it was formative for both of us.
1:54.0	And I feel like every woman listening has an image of a cover in their mind that they remember seeing at like a CVS.
1:55.5	Yes.
1:55.9	Or something when they were like 11 being like, I want to be that girl.
1:59.1	No, it was all of our introduction to fashion.
2:02.4	So what was your favorite teen vote cover ever?
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