I’m teetering on Taylor Swift overload (she’ll co-host TRL June 16 through June 19) but I’ll admit that I’m pysched for her MTV special, Once Upon a Prom, premiering June 21 at 3 p.m ET. The 18-year-old country singer missed her own prom, so she’s going on the arm of one lucky senior at Hillcrest High in Tuscaloosa, AL. The hour-long special will follow Swift as she selects her stag (from among 40 dateless teens), finds her dress, and experiences all the awkward and awesome moments generally associated with the night. Throughout the day on June 21, she’ll be on MTV introducing segments covering over-the-top prom fashions and shocking moments. (Celebs and viewers alike will also dish on their wild nights.)
Let’s open up the Confessional in the meantime, and share our prom songs. If I’m remembering correctly, 10,000 Maniacs’ "These are Days" was the theme for my senior prom in 1993, which would’ve been cool had someone bothered to tell the DJ so he could’ve brought it. Boo.
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Mandi–how cool was your high school to use a 10,000 Maniacs song? I would have killed for something like that. Of course Natalie and the boys weren’t really on the radar yet for my prom (1985). I don’t remember my prom theme but our class song was “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince. Not one of his best efforts, IMO, but I suppose “Darling Nikki” wouldn’t have made it past the school administration.
1998 – I Will Remember You by Sarah McLaughlan and the theme was ‘Magic Under the Stars’. And to think how much fighting went on within the committee to get that to be the song. If I remember correctly there was nearly a catfight
prom 2001, and vitamin c’s “the graduation song” was everrrrrywhere. so…very…lame! at least the prom itself was fun, and my non-clubbing pals and i went to a cottage afterwards and played pool and poker all night. awesome.
Why am i not surprised that Mandi (a) knows her prom song and (b) gives a crap what everyone else’s prom song was.
“These are days” was my graduation song too
“these are the days” was the prom song choice for the year before ours, so we couldn’t choose it. instead, we went with bon jovi’s “never say goodbye.” swoon.
1983 was the year that the “heads” took over our class from the cheerleaders and jocks. Therefore, our prom theme was “Thank You” by Led Zeppelin – a song from 1969, for God’s sake! It was just weird.
I think our 1988 prom song was the same as our graduation song – “It’s the End of the World as We Know it” by REM. Someone proposed “Don’t You Forget about Me” by Simple Minds but it was rejected as too sentimental and obvious. Tells you something about my graduating class, huh?
1979. “We’ve Got Tonight”. I wasn’t there.
Graduated in 2002. Our prom theme was “A Night in Heaven” and our song was Eve 6’s “Here’s to the night”. the songs we had to choose from were pretty lame since the last couple of years put out some really lame tunes. Our graduation song was “Season’s of Love”, sung by the Senior Chorus for graduation.
1998: Senior Prom theme and song: “Truly, Madly, Deeply” by Savage Garden.
I graduated in 2002, but I honestly have no idea what our song was. I can’t remember it. Quick! Someone name 2002 songs off the top of their head. It was probably a lame song.
Our prom song was a huge scandal, because the prom committee disregarded the popular vote that the seniors did and selected “That’s what friends are for” instead(it WAS 1986). EVERYONE sat down the three times they played it that night, it was hysterical!
1997 – Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins. Nothing says prom like the Smashing Pumpkins
I graduated in ‘02. I don’t think we had a prom song. My high school was kind of weird–we didn’t have a prom king or queen either. I do remember that they played “Freebird” though. For my semi-rural high school that’s as good a prom song as any, I guess.
2000 – The Time of My Life
Yes… the theme from Dirty Dancing…
Yes… prom committee was full of girls…
Yes… I was one of them…
1999 – “Party Like It’s 1999.” We were so original.
I just had my prom, and the song was My Wish by Rascal Flatts… laame. Of course, the choices were (not joking) Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, and Michael Buble, so…
My prom song of the class of 2003 was Shania Twain’s “From This Moment” because our theme was “A Moment in Time.” And because we were all-white, upper-middle class, suburban kids who, naturally, were obsessed with black culture, NO ONE in my class listened to country music! They would’ve been better off having 50’s “In Da Club” as our prom song.
1998 Senior Prom – Eric Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight (also the theme)
1997 Junior Prom – the song was Dave Matthew’s Crash Into Me, but the administration thought the song was too suggestive and wouldn’t let the whole song title be our “theme”, so the theme ended up being “Into Your Heart”. Meh…
1987: I didn’t attend, but our prom song/theme was “Stairway to Heaven”. I always thought the theme was a little too Steven King creepy.
I was class of 1999 and we did “From This Moment” for our prom, which EVERYBODY thought was lame, and we did “Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)” by Green Day for our graduation song…though they only billed it as “Time of Your Life” in the program, because they didn’t want to “send an inappropriate message”. The truth was that no one in our class got along and we all thought it was hilarious.
ARae, that is an *awesome* prom story. It would be great if someone could work it into a teen movie at some point.
1999 Junior Prom – Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over
2000 Senior Prom – The Beatles’ In My Life
Both were kind of random choices, but I thought it was kind of cool that the prom committee at least tried to think outside the box by foregoing easy choices like Celine Dion.
Class of 1993 – our prom song was “The End of the Innocence” by Don Henley. I seem to remember “Nuthin’ But a G Thang” by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg as a serious contender…
1997 (junior year)–”Heaven” by Bryan Adams. Guess whose choice that was? YAY! (Especially considering that I was not Miss Popularity by any means…being the smart artsy girl at a small-town sports-crazy Catholic high school will do that to ya.)
1998 (senior year)–I wanted Squirrel Nut Zippers’ “Hell” to counteract the last year’s theme, but no one went for it (and yeah, I went to a Catholic school). Instead we had “I Will Remember You,” which I didn’t hate, even though by that point everyone was associating it with Princess Diana’s death several months earlier. Oh well, at least we didn’t have “Truly Madly Deeply” (which was on the radio CONSTANTLY at that point), or “My Heart Will Go On” (which besides being Celine Dion, is about someone DYING), like some other schools in the area.
I quoted “Seasons of Love” in my valedictory speech.
Court: I REALLY wanted “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” at our graduation
because I hated our class, but the establishment said no.
i graduated in ‘03 and our theme had something to do with hollywood. i have forever been mad at the dj though, who chose to end our senior prom with avril lavigne’s “i’m with you.” ew.
Silv–OUr 1980 prom there was “we’ve Got tonight”, too. Even at the time, I couldn’t understand why the preps were so eager to choose a song about one-night stands as a prom theme.
I heard somewhere that “1979″ by The Smashing Pumpkins was used as a prom song/theme.
In 1992, our fearless class president decided to override everyone and choose something herself. Her choice? “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye to Yesterday” by Boyz 2 Men. Blurgh.