What was your prom song?

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caramelcoldbrew@reddit

Graduated in 1999 so I’m sure you could guess what mine was.

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mentul77@reddit

Also 99 but ours was Don't Wanna Miss a Thing.

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withbellson@reddit

That was my college grad year and we heard it a looooot. I’m amused every time it shuffles up in iTunes. Used to be a song about the future, now it’s charming nostalgia.

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Local-Painter-1237@reddit

2000, zero, zero, party over Oops, out of time So tonight we’re going to party like it’s 1999!

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pizzabirthrite@reddit

'99. It was that nostalgia prom band, Green Day.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

lol, I’m sure they would love to hear this sentence about them… yet I know exactly what you mean lol

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Logical-Cherry9395@reddit

I dropped out...no prom for me. Oddly, I've never regretted that.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

I’m sure you missed nothing lol.

I was more interested in music side of the question lol

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Logical-Cherry9395@reddit

I would have been class of 1995. I know the class before us did "Forever Young" by Michael Bolton. Ugh.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

lol, what an odd transition the 90s were.

Also if I knew those were the theme songs, I probably wouldn’t have gone just based on that lol

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Iocnar@reddit

Lightning Crashed by Live class of 95

"Her placenta falls to the floor."

awkwaaard

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Legitimate_Front8286@reddit

Don’t wanna miss a thing by Aerosmith

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

Idk why but I loathe that song so much lol

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JaneATL@reddit

Back Dat Ass Up followed by Free Bird 🤪

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os_beef@reddit

What the fuck is a prom? I tested out like any respectable xennial.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

Yes this was constantly played indeed

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Yellow_Curry@reddit

Stairway to Heaven. It was dumb because how do you slow dance to that weird long instrumental section.

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Ours was also Stairway To Heaven. Most awkward song to dance to. You’re all hugged up and then suddenly need to switch gears. Somewhere I still have the little prom program thingie, it has a gold embossed stairway on the front.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

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TALieutenant@reddit

Didn't go to prom, but our (2001) graduation song was "I Will Get There" by Boys II Men.

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snowboard7621@reddit

Time of Your Life. (I don’t think anyone knew it was titled Good Riddance which was maybe more on point lol.)

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fattycatty6@reddit

They played this at my kids 8th grade graduation 2 years ago😆

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TheF1na1Countdown59@reddit

That was our graduation song, and I thought it was ultra-appropriate. LoL

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_FLostInParadise_@reddit

Same here. Half the class wanted it because they didn't know. Half because they did.

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sooonnnk@reddit

i feel like at least 2-3 if my school social events ended with this song

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veepeedeepee@reddit

They played the Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad Touch at our prom, which to this day blows my mind.

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AdoraSkater@reddit

Hold My Hand by Hootie and the Blowfish. Or so I was told, I never went to any of my proms. For those who said I'd regret it- jokes on you!

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jenbenfoo@reddit

We didn't have one but "our song" I had with my boyfriend at the time was "Amazed" by Lonestar. I distinctly remember hearing it at some random dance I went to that he was unable to attend with me and crying in the corner because I missed him so much lmao 🤣

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deadphish5868@reddit

Some crappy N’Sync song.

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TheF1na1Countdown59@reddit

"Save the Best for Last", by Vanessa Williams.

Class of 1999. This song was just common sense. LoL

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kronik419@reddit

Probably wasn't the "official" song...but the best and most memorable was a song about undergarments. Thank you Sisqo.

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freshcreator@reddit

We had a class song not a prom song. Class of 1998 and our song was No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

lol, that’s a wild choice. How’d the ladies feel about that?

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freshcreator@reddit

We all loved Bob Marley. We were a city full of stoners back then lol.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

Totally fair. As a dude, I can relate to the song. But as a school I’d pick something else.

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RedDawnWlvrines@reddit

Is there a song called “Enchantment Under the Sea!”

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burnerburneronenine@reddit

It’s the End of the World As We Know It

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Mom2Dos@reddit

Mine too.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

How would I know, I didn't go 😅

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meredithedith0@reddit

My Heart Will Go On from Titanic.

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Ok_Education_5095@reddit

Thing song

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tlivingd@reddit

My heart will go on. nobody was seriously dating in our graduating class.

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carlivar@reddit

Junior year Lady in Red. I think it was In Your Eyes senior year. Both were already a bit old at the time, come to think of it.

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eroded_wolf@reddit

Prom is supposed to have a song?

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BronskiBeatCovid@reddit

I have never heard of anything like this. Is this some kind of regional thing?

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SlackerDS5@reddit

If it did have a song, it’s dead and buried. Right where it belongs.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

Yeah some had a final theme song or something. Or someone else mentioned it being called something else like year theme song, but don’t remember.

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poodog13@reddit

This was my thought also. Don't think that was a thing for us.

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GaspSpit@reddit

I was not allowed to go to Prom so I have no idea.

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Bradtothebone79@reddit

That song still hits hard

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Rasputin1916_@reddit

I think it was something stupid like "I don't wanna miss a thing" by Aerosmith and this is rural Nova Scotia in 2001.

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CheesyRomantic@reddit

I don't think we had a dedicated prom song. But I do remember at the end, almost everyone was gathered in a huge hudle/circle swaying/dancing to Stand By Me.

I watched from my table.

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PatchworkGirl82@reddit

I didn't go, but I think it was Time of Your Life by Green Day.

I had much more fun at my middle school dances. The last song was always Stairway to Heaven

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Grammarhead-Shark@reddit

We don't do Proms in Australia

But at our Valedictory (Gratuation) dinner, we choose The Angels 'Am I ever going to see your face again'

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litchick@reddit

Senior Ball was Green Day - Time of your Life

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Constant_Concert_936@reddit

I could swear it was the Thong Song, but most likely it was “I Hope You Dance” or something like that. Can’t quite remember.

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nocleverusername15@reddit

My class song was the Thong Song. Like printed in the year book so we can see it 26 years later and know it wasn't a hallucination.

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981GTSF90M5F87M2C@reddit

Dude, Thong Song is the first one that popped in my head! Graduated in 2000.

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FatReverend@reddit

You guys went to prom?

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TriciaTargaryen@reddit

Amazed by Lonestar. Missouri, class of 2000!

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KoRaZee@reddit

There was one particular song in 99 that took over

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

I have no idea I was busy getting blacked out drunk somewhere else.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

For the better or worse?

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

For better in the future, for worse in the moment. Live and let learn.

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greendress888@reddit

Wonderful Tonight-Eric Clapton

Circa 2002 rural middle america

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Dextropic@reddit

Same. RI class of '93

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WinnieTheEeyore@reddit

Ah yes. 2001 for me.

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kalista08@reddit

Texas, '99

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broke_fit_dad@reddit

Yep

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Dextropic@reddit

Class of '93 Senior Prom. Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton.

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lavasca@reddit

Don’t know. We has a live, local band called Blister Chicken.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

Nice

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Dangerous-Volume8305@reddit

Titanic came out my senior year. Knowing that, you know the theme, which was also the song they played every half hour... 🙄

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

How this movie was permeated into our culture at the time was so nauseating lol.

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TeaTime2424@reddit

I wouldn’t call it our “prom” song, but our senior class song was “Into the Great Wide Open,” Tom Petty.

And now my son is going to prom tomorrow. 🫠

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

That’s a great song.

Thanks for reminding me to take my medicine lol

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Ok-Fault-3467@reddit

Probably Cotton Eye Joe or whatever it’s called

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

You poor soul

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AccountantMelodic862@reddit

Everything I do, I do it for youuuuuuuuu 😵‍💫

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RoundTheBend6@reddit (OP)

Classic at the dances. I do distinctly remember at least once all the dudes making fun of it and ruining what was supposed to be a sweet slow song lol.

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WinnieTheEeyore@reddit

2000 for me. Indianapolis.

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coral_like_the_reef@reddit

From this Moment On - Shania Twain in 2000

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Woodworker1982@reddit

Crossroads. Prom and graduation.

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withbellson@reddit

Ours was We’ve Got Tonight. (Why don’t you stay?)

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Poison_Ivy_Rorschach@reddit

No prom song I’m aware of.

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Altruistic-Task3294@reddit

Alphaville. Forever young

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TryTwiceAsHard@reddit

"This Is the Time" and in quotes "To Remember". So like, or prom was To Rememberand the song was "This Is the Time".

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Local-Painter-1237@reddit

We had an “Ocean of Memories” the year Titanic came out. My dress was even a deep sapphire blue with a corset-style top and full skirt- absolutely loved it. Anyway, 3 guesses what our theme song was…

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fawwywawwy@reddit

1999 Dru Hill- These Are the Times 2000 Case- Happily Ever After (Or it was reverse, but either way, those were the songs.)

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AgarFifthRim@reddit

Thong song

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OskeyBug@reddit

We had a graduation assembly but no prom song. At the assembly they did a whole thing around Alphaville's Forever Young, which was a weird choice considering what it's actually about.

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Queen-Butterfly@reddit

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FunksGroove@reddit

Prom song?

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purplelilac701@reddit

It began with Ghetto Superstar

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Significant-Style-73@reddit

Angel of Mine - Monica

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instant_ramen_chef@reddit

I went to 4 proms from 96-98

I never knew a prom had a "song". I dont even know what that means.

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LAffaire-est-Ketchup@reddit

When I was in school, prom was an AMERICAN thing. We did not do “prom.”

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False-Cookie3379@reddit

It was supposed to be a country song called “back in the day”. I was in charge of the music for our prom video, there was no oversight, we were a bunch of nerds that stayed out of trouble. I downloaded the only “back in the day” song I could find, by Trick Daddy. It played while we had a slideshow of baby pictures and such. Oopsie daisies.

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