Taylor Swift (and your prom song)

Amanda Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 06:56 PM EST

Our song at prom was--here's a shocking choice--Graduation by Vitamin C. The song they forced us to do at graduation was I won't Back Down or whatever the hell it's called from Tom Petty and those old guys that all got together in that band that time. I graduated in 2000. We soo wanted Good Riddance (Time of Your life) but the admin didn't want it. Even though we all despised each other.........

Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:51 AM EST

Yep, ours was also Party like it's 1999. Completely lame. I hate that song, and I am sure I'll hear it again at our reunion this June. Also, that Baz Luhrmann "Trust me on the Sunscreen" song was a big deal at our graduation. I think the teacher the students selected to give a speech quoted that instead of writing her own speech.

Doree lee Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:56 PM EST

1987 - 'HEAVEN' by Bryan Adams...so 80's!

toocute08 Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 02:17 PM EST

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Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 05:47 PM EST

Copy that Jo. I'd really like to see some real role models for young adults these days...unfortunately, the only starlets who get famous enough to have an influence on teens only got famous from family connections and do virtually nothing with the influence they have.

Jo Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 05:44 PM EST

I saw this episode and the whole time she spent using it to promote herself and making herself the center of the prom instead of being respectful to the students who actually go the that school. It's pretty sad, but needless to say, I won't be buying any of her cds.

Andrea Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 02:48 PM EST

2007--Junior prom. It was raining pretty hard so our DJ played "It's Raining on Prom Night" from "Grease" as a joke. Nobody (especially all the girls and the seniors) thought it was funny. Our theme was Arabian Nights, so our theme song was "A Whole New World" from "Aladdin."
2008--Senior prom. Our theme was Minutes 'Til Midnight, our song--"So Close" from "Enchanted." I was dateless, so the prom king shared the big dance with me. Him going out of his way like that was such a nice surprise and I was so happy I got all teary. Best prom memory of all :-D

tinytvfan Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:15 AM EST

The year: 1991. The song: "In The Air Tonight" by Phil Collins. The prom: 80's awesomeness!

heather Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:22 PM EST

I LOVE YOUR SONGS

Seeking Unemployment Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:55 PM EST

Silv and Sean -
Do you realize that "We've Got Tonight" is a song about a one night stand? Is that really what the prom organizers intended.

Anyone, how could someone pick the Kenn Rogers/Sheena Easton version when Bob Seger's original is a classic.

BTW, mine was Diana Ross' Do You Know Where You're Going To. Snooze.

Ash Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:02 AM EST

the scientist - coldplay

Carra Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 08:13 AM EST

2004-Aerosmith, "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing"

2003- All For One, "I Swear" (which everyone thought was by Boyz II Men, it even said so on the ballot sheet when we were voting for songs)

NOT very original at all, but prom itself was amazing!

steph Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:37 AM EST

1996- Friends (yes, the theme song from Friends)

Jen Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:06 PM EST

1997 - Take my Breathe Away (romantic but a bit late)
1998 - With or Without You (bit dreary for prom)
1999 - I Will Remember You (also a bit sad and sentimental for seniors)
None of ours were too romantic except the one I attended as a sophomore.

Sean Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:39 PM EST

Jr High - Looks Like We Made It - Barry Manilow
Sr High - We've Got Tonight - Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton
Well, it could have been worse...I've Never Been To Me?!

RedAngel Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:16 AM EST

I was among the unfortunate who graduated in 1998 and got stuck with the craptastic Titanic theme. At least it gave me a few minutes to sneak outside for a smoke.

Jess Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:18 AM EST

OUr theme song was Hendrix' Purple Haze, pretty sweet theme I think, and the DJ did actually play it.

x302 Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:42 PM EST

Ours? "Time in a Bottle" Lame song, Lame school and Lame prom.

Sports Chick Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:33 PM EST

"I Loved These Days" by Billy Joel. Yep, just dated myself. Great song, okay prom.

elena Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 06:36 PM EST

Prom Theme? Casablanca.
Cool, right? Only an all-girls catholic school could take "casablanca" and turn it into "hoochie mama". There was no sophisticated Scarlet O'Hara gorgeous, instead the "supposed" chinese food gave people food poisoning (not glamorous) and for further note, egg rolls do NOT equal eggs in a bread roll.
And our prom song? Low. Low by Flo-Rida and T-Pain.
I miss cool, classic dorky prom, with poofy dresses and three feet dancing distances between pevlises. Where are the 80's proms?!?!

Vinder Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 04:07 PM EST

Prom 2003 - It's Your Love, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Not exactly the most original theme. The year after I graduated though:

Prom 2004 - I Believe in a Thing Called Love by The Darkness. Now that's original.

Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:29 PM EST

Sorry, Two Tickets to Paradise. Still lame.

Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:28 PM EST

1983 - Two Tickets to Paradies by Eddie Money. Laaaaaaaaame.

Zod Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:24 PM EST

Junior High - Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor (our school was the Tigers)
Senior High - Whisper To A Scream by Icicle Works ( I went to a pretty gnarly high school)

Scott Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:58 PM EST

DALTON WHERE ARE YOU????????

newshound23 Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:16 PM EST

1992-Senior Prom-Forever Young, Alphaville version. Very cool.
1991-Junior Prom-In Your Eyes.
1990-Honestly can't remember. I was too worried about being a sophomore at the big dance. Scared out of my mind.

LL Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:58 PM EST

1999: I was obsessed with Top Gun, so for my junior prom, I fought tooth and nail for "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin, and I won. The committee agreed that we should have an older song, but somehow "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan came in second in the vote.

Meghan Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:38 PM EST

Class of '06- I don't think we had a prom song or a graduation song. I remember our theme was something like "A Black Tie Affair," and they had all of these cardboard cut-outs of celebrities and big screens showing clips of classic movies.

Nanci Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:13 PM EST

Junior Prom - 1991 - In Your Eyes, Peter Gabriel
Senior Prom - 1992 - The Music of the Night, from Phantom of the Opera (can you tell the drama club showed up for the vote?)

We wanted REM's It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine) for the senior prom, but the admins vetoed it

Cinderella Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:09 PM EST

I graduated in 2001, and our song at our senior prom was "End of the Road" by Boyz II Men, and every stood in a circle, arm in arm, and swayed to the song like we were all friends or something. It was weird. A lot of people wanted it to be "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day, so they played that as well later on, but no circle dance.

Daryn Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:59 PM EST

Back in '95, I remember getting into a serious debate as to whether the song "Back to the Hotel" by N2 Deep could be used as our prom theme. I believe it was rejected by our English teacher. "The man" keeping us down again... :)

Alison Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:41 PM EST

Bon jovi's "Never Say Goodbye."

ahhhh, the memories. My heart just skipped. First time that's ever happened at my cube :)

Nose Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:33 PM EST

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.

Henry Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:32 PM EST

I heard somewhere that "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins was used as a prom song/theme.

lagitha Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM EST

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.

kel Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:23 PM EST

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.

Lauren Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:22 PM EST

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.

beb Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM EST

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...

Dave Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM EST

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.

Martha Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM EST

ARae, that is an *awesome* prom story. It would be great if someone could work it into a teen movie at some point.

Court Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM EST

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.

Anne Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:44 AM EST

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.

arahsae Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:43 AM EST

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...

RayT Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:20 AM EST

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.

Maddi Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:58 AM EST

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...

Christina Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:51 AM EST

1999 - "Party Like It's 1999." We were so original.

sbear Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:44 AM EST

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...

Dixie Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:50 AM EST

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.

Sandy Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:47 AM EST

1997 - Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins. Nothing says prom like the Smashing Pumpkins :)

ARae Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:38 AM EST

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!

Vicky Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:35 AM EST

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.

ET Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:35 AM EST

1998: Senior Prom theme and song: "Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage Garden.

Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:31 AM EST

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.

Silv Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:30 AM EST

1979. "We've Got Tonight". I wasn't there.

Martha Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:22 AM EST

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?

wildecat Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:17 AM EST

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.

NineDaves Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:09 AM EST

"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.

heather Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:02 AM EST

"These are days" was my graduation song too :-)

Lucinda Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:38 AM EST

Why am i not surprised that Mandi (a) knows her prom song and (b) gives a crap what everyone else's prom song was.

elly Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:25 AM EST

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.

MC Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:17 AM EST

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 :D

Julie Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:10 AM EST

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.