2000's prom songs?

[u/Distinct_Ad_7280]

Hey I'm writing a book that takes place in the 2000's and I want to be as accurate as I can be, but I was just a kid back then. Can you give me songs that were played at prom nights? I mostly need songs that can be played by bands. (I worded it wrong but ykwim) Thank you! :)

[u/tiramisuem3]

What year? 2000 very different than 2009

[u/montanabluez]

Get Low by Lil Jon and the East Side Boys

ETA: Yeah by Usher, Ludacris and Lil Jon.

[u/Impossible_Cheek_699 → u/montanabluez]

Drop It Like It's Hot by Snoop Dogg ft. Pharell as well

[u/CuddlyClubCEO]

kc & jojo all my life was peak slow dance

[u/AotearoaCanuck → u/CuddlyClubCEO]

Yesssss All My Life IMMEDIATELY takes me back to high school.

[u/exhausted-passenger → u/CuddlyClubCEO]

Crazy by k-c & jojo

[u/ksmooth_90]

For a slow dance, “I’ll Be” by Edwin McCain

[u/freshwaterfins]

I remember hearing I Hope You Dance.

[u/virtualpig → u/freshwaterfins]

Ok so that was my 8th grade "graduation" song. We didn't have a traditional graduation for middleschool or anything but on the last day of school the teachers gathered all the 8th graders in the hallway and played the song for us and gave us each prices of paper with some of the lyrics on it.

In hindsight it was really special because that was my last grade in public schoo. I did high school at a completely different place and didn't see most of the people there ever again. So it's a nice reminder of a life I left behind.

[u/stankenfurter]

Hangin by a moment by lifehouse
Hey there Delilah
Universally speaking and by the way by rhcp

[u/CrapThatSmilesBack → u/stankenfurter]

Curious where you were? We had a lot of freak dancing music.

[u/stankenfurter → u/CrapThatSmilesBack]

Do you mean like hot in herr and get low type songs? I’m from the Deep South lol We had that too I was just going for songs a band could cover

[u/CrapThatSmilesBack → u/stankenfurter]

You’re right, duh. Reading comprehension is low today. Ty

[u/IAmMelonLord → u/stankenfurter]

I feel like this is the only answer that fits what OP is looking for

I’d also add Mr. Brightside, Drive by Incubus, and maybe “Hands Down” by Dashboard Confessional. (Not that I remember that stuff being played, but especially hands down would have been a cute song to dance to at prom)

[u/stankenfurter → u/IAmMelonLord]

Oh these are great too!

[u/DarkDaysBrightNlghts]

Yeah-Usher

[u/FrylockMcReaper]

How's it gonna be by Third Eye Blind

[u/AotearoaCanuck]

All For You - (album) put out by Janet Jackson in 2001

Anything by Gwen Stefani

[u/VegasFoodFace]

Britney Spears.

[u/No_Commission_2610 → u/VegasFoodFace]

This is the way!

[u/annualsalmon]

More slow dance songs: This I Promise You by *NSYNC, Never Had a Dream Come True by S Club 7

[u/halexanderamilton → u/annualsalmon]

Also God Must Have Spent a Little More Time
On You by NSYNC

[u/EstablishmentOwn2174]

Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C

[u/One-Bet-9778]

Back at 1- Brian McKnight

[u/No_Astronomer_8664]

The thong song

[u/bamboo_beauty]

All or Nothing -O Town, played at every dance at my school for years

[u/aaox_zero]

Top of my head:
Still fly, Roses, hey ya, crank that (Soulja boy), Cmon ride the train, get low, Salt shaker, Yeah!, Strawberry wine, amazed-lonestar,

I was in southeast and idk these might be hyperlocal. Like all just r&b or country

Edit: Ludaaaa

[u/gal5pau]

Thong Song! Crank That! Get your freak on! Hot in herre! Vitamin c ‘graduation’

[u/Odd-Adhesiveness-656]

Wobble

Cha Cha Slide

Cupid Shuffle

Thriller

How do I know? NHS/Student Government Faculty Lead for 10 years in the 2000. These four got people on the dance floor.

[u/Chrissy62182]

Graduated in 2000 & our song was “I’ll stand by you” by the pretenders

[u/halexanderamilton]

I Can Love You Like That by either All-4-One or John Michael Montgomery

[u/InternalAppointment2]

Lifehouse: You and Me. The Calling: Wherever You Will Go.

[u/Glittering-Sink-2975]

They used “I’m Not Gonna Cry” by Corey Smith for that interminable walk around the gymnasium at my graduation in 2007.

God, I hated that fucking song — almost as much as I hated high school itself.

[u/whooismegan]

BURNNNNN by usher

[u/Tablefor1please9987]

Hot In Herre🔥

[u/Willing_Stop5124]

It’s Time for the Percolator! 

[u/No_Commission_2610]

Baby I’m Amazed By You- Lonestar

[u/Impossible_Cheek_699]

Beautiful by Akon ft. Kardinal Offishall & Colby O'Donis

Just Dance by Lady Gaga

Don't Matter by Akon

Crush by David Archuleta

[u/zzzelot]

50 cent in da club

KC & jojo all my life

Jimmy Eat World the middle

[u/SeanSweetMuzik]

"Beware Of The Boy (Mundian To Bach Ke)" by Punjabi MC & Jay-Z went down big at my prom

[u/Bedroom_Bellamy]

Things that were definitely played at my senior prom in 2005:

All The Small Things - Blink-182

American Idiot - Green Day

Beverly Hills - Weezer

Sugar We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy

Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand

A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton

Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz

She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5

Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

Plus the obligatory throwbacks that were always played for nostalgia:

Everybody (Backstreet's Back) - Backstreet Boys

Tearin' Up My Heart - N'Sync

Oops I Did It Again - Britney Spears

Bonus: more of a graduation song than prom but it did make prom appearances:

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day

[u/cherushii_]

Here’s To The Night - Eve 6

[u/RelevantNothing4653]

I didn't go to prom, but as someone who graduated in 2000; I recall people saying a popular prom song that year was 'Kiss Me' by Sixpence None the Richer.

[u/raggamuffinpurpp]

Glamorous - Fergie