Meryl Streep, James Corden, The Prom Ensemble
Meryl Streep & James Corden & Nicole Kidman & Andrew Rannells
Jo Ellen Pellman & Keegan-Michael Key
Meryl Streep & Andrew Rannells & James Corden
Jo Ellen Pellman & Ariana DeBose
Andrew Rannells & Meryl Streep & James Corden
The Cast of Netflix’s Film The Prom & & & Ariana DeBose & Jo Ellen Pellman
Keegan-Michael Key & Meryl Streep
The Cast of Netflix’s Film The Prom & James Corden & Kerry Washington & Sofia Deler & & Jo Ellen Pellman
Jo Ellen Pellman
Nicole Kidman & Jo Ellen Pellman
Meryl Streep & Keegan-Michael Key
Ariana DeBose
Andrew Rannells & & & Sofia Deler &
James Corden
Jo Ellen Pellman
The Cast of Netflix’s Film The Prom & Jo Ellen Pellman & Ariana DeBose & Kerry Washington & Keegan-Michael Key & Andrew Rannells & Nicole Kidman & James Corden & Meryl Streep
The Cast of Netflix’s Film The Prom & Meryl Streep & Nicole Kidman & Ariana DeBose & Kerry Washington & Jo Ellen Pellman
James Corden
Alyssa (Ariana DeBose) backs out of her planned prom date with Emma (Jo Ellen Pellman), singing this song about all the pressures that her mom (Kerry Washington) is putting on her to live a flawless life for everyone to see.
[spoken]
You know what my mother's like. She's a complete and total control freak
[sung]
The hair has to be perfect
The A's have to be straight
You have to join the debate club
On that there's no debate
You'll have Bible camp each summer to keep you pure and clean
Endless rules apply when you're Alyssa Greene
Trophies have to be first place
Ribbons have to be blue
There's always some compеtition
Or hoops for jumping through
Your mom's made sacrifices so win Homecoming Queen
'Causе it's do or die when you're Alyssa Greene
And you wish there was a world where you were simply free to live
And when people criticized you, you had no more shits to give
And in this other lifetime when you tell yourself "be brave"
You won't cave
That's the one thing I truly crave
But your feelings have to be phony
Your weight has to be tracked
If you don't like shaking pom-poms
You'd better learn to act
Just have everything perfected
By the time you reach eighteen
Don't ask how or why when you're Alyssa Greene
Improve all of your strong points
And hide things that you lack
'Cause mom's convinced if you're perfect
Your father might come back
You're not yourself
You're not what she wants
You're someone in between
Your whole life's a lie when you're Alyssa Greene
You're not yourself
You're not what she wants
You're someone in between
Alyssa Greene was written by Chad Beguelin & Matthew Sklar.
Alyssa Greene was produced by Ryan Murphy.
Ariana DeBose released Alyssa Greene on Fri Dec 04 2020.