Prom Queen

I chose to blog about a song that I feel has some powerful lyrics and really shows the artists true emotion, especially from a very unexpected artist. The song “Prom Queen” is the first single released off of Lil Wayne’s up and coming album “Rebirth.” Lil Wayne has always been known as a rapper who likes to “make it rain” and seems to fit the profile of a thug, but in this album, he has decided to go in a new direction with a rock / R&B approach. The song, “Prom Queen” is distinctively different than the rest of his songs and is quite sad when you listen to the lyrics.

The song starts out with gentle guitar playing and then the drums come in and it starts to pick up. It slows back down and the first verse comes in. Lil Wayne talks about the most popular girl in his school during his high school days, the prom queen, and how he always had a crush on her. He talks about how he would sit patiently and “wait for the chance to get, to tell her I’m the one she should be with.” Lil Wayne fantasizes about how they could be in a relationship together and how everything would go over well. Since she was the prom queen, she was popular with all the guys, but Lil Wayne knew that they just wanted her for her looks and not for what’s on the inside. The hook and the chorus then come in and Wayne says how she turned him down and “left me with a broken heart.” Wayne says that his reason for failure was the he “couldn’t play the part,” which I think means that he wasn’t popular enough, and that this girl only went for guys because of their name and not their personality. The end of the chorus is a flash-forward when she returns to Lil Wayne crying because she has realized that all those guys were just using her and that he was right. The second verse then starts up with talking about all the quick relationships that she had with guys that only wanted her for her sex appeal. I really like the line “she tried to keep ‘em entertained, when they could hardly remember her name.” This shows how some guys just use girls for sex and the girl is so caught up in the bonding that they don’t even realize that they are being taken advantage of. The rest of the song follows as: the hook and chorus come back, then a simple guitar solo, and then the chorus again until the song fades out.

I really like this song because it shows that Lil Wayne has a soft side and it sounds like a personal experience for him back in his days as Dwayne instead of Wayne. I also think the song sends a message to girls out there who are being taken advantage of. Not that I have any personal experience with this situation, but I have witnessed it happen back in my days of high school and think it is awful that some people are able to use people like that. I think Lil Wayne does a great job singing in this song and I can’t wait to check out the rest of his album whenever it is decided to be released.