You'd have Blink-182 play your prom if you could. Because movies are better than reality, these fictitious teens lived the high school dream.
Not Another Teen Movie - Good Charlotte (2001)
Few things encapsulate the early '00s high school experience the way pop-punk does, few bands as delightfully bratty as Good Charlotte. The entire world knows this, which is why the band sheds their bad boy image for the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie, acting as the prom band for the film's penultimate scene.
In true prom fashion, Good C cover "I Want Candy" and Paul Anka's "Put Your Head On My Shoulder" (which is about as good as Anka's cover of "Smells like Teen Spirit." Sigh.) If you're looking for "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous," you'll have to look elsewhere.
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The Brady Bunch Movie - Davey Jones (1971)
Marcia claims she can get the illustrious (and totally babely) Monkees frontman Davey Jones to show up at her school dance, knowing full well that it's basically an impossibility. Somehow she convinces him and her life remains perfect, the world keeps spinning, etc.
But, like, seriously: Eff Marcia. Girl was gorgeous and got to do whatever she wanted. Davey Jones even liked her (I guess you should just ignore the weird age gap?) Team Jan FOREVER.
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10 Things I Hate About You - Letters to Cleo (1999)
There was a period in time when Letters to Cleo made moves. They were featured on an episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, they had a few singles that did okay on the Billboard charts, but most notably, they were the prom band in 10 Things I Hate About You, where they covered the Isley Brothers' "Shout!" and Nick Lowe's "Cruel to be Kind." Now they're the stuff of '90s nostalgists, but also super cool and quirky in the Julia Styles-Heath Ledger sort of way.
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She's All That - Usher (1999)
I used to always think if prom had a DJ instead of a band, it was because your school was cheap and/or the principal didn't like you. She's All That proved that wrong with Usher on deck as MC, who instructs the actors to do some strange swing dance that is some parts the Monkey, some parts "Thriller," all parts weird. Why was everything so choreographed in the '90s?
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