I feel like I have been writing this song since my senior year of high school. Being the kid who always misses out on different big occasions, I bottle my 17-year-old self inside this song. From the production to vocal to lyrics, I want it to be lighthearted while intimate. I never got to experience prom the way you see it in a movie where it's almost too picture-perfect. So I imagined this character and how they would approach their high school crush by getting to know them and eventually ask them out for prom. But here's the twist, everything besides the last line from the chorus "let me ask first: do you wanna be my date" is all in their little fantasy. In another word, nothing happened, it's just the overloaded amount of thoughts and imagination that was going through their brain.
The release itself is a birthday present from me to me. It was released on September 20, my birthday. Part of the proceed will be donated to The Trevor Project. I got to work with Dave Haskett, who has been on tour with Shawn Mendes for the last several years, on the bass; as well as going back and forth on mixing and mastering with my sound engineer, Fabio Lendrum. I feel greatly appreciative to be writing and doing what I do. This track is to provide people like myself, who did not get to experience the whole picture-perfect high school prom, or just nervous to ask somebody out, a connection to let them know that I have been in similar, if not the same, situations. It's a part of my journey that I'd like to share, and hopefully, others would relate as well, or just put it on when you're driving down the road and have a good time.
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