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"High School Musical 3": A Friendly Warning Of Its Impending Arrival


When I heard that one of the songs on the soundtrack for High School Musical 3, which is bypassing the Disney Channel for a theatrical release this fall, was going to be called "I Want It All," I was hoping it would be an updated version of the song by the electro-twee act Bis, with maybe a conspicuous-consumption reference or two thrown in. It isn't, as the video for it above—released yesterday, it would seem—indicates. And it's not all that great, either—which makes me wonder if the creative team behind the songs will top the heights of "Get'cha Head In The Game," or if the only sweet melodies provided by the flick will come from cash registers as they ring up tie-in merchandise that will no doubt stuff store shelves in the fall. [YouTube]

High School Musical 3 is bypassing the Disney Channel and going to theaters this October. The film's plot is centered around "Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college," and subsequently writing and performing a musical about the whole thing. Me, I'm already looking forward to HSM4, in which our two young stars join rival schools' a cappella groups, only to find that they're going to have to compete head-to-head at a sing-off hootenanny emceed by Sharpay and her new new nose. [Variety]

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High School Musical Star Is Deeply Sorry For Inadvertently Providing Planet With Wank Mining Material

Occasionally* Gelfling-esque High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens has mostly suppressed the shame of having naked pictures she snapped for an ex hit the blogs back in September, but the incident has left her with a "valuable lesson," one that she "tries to impart on other young women."
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Will The Hollywood Writer's Strike Deprive Us Of Future Doses Of Disney Tween Pop?

If you were a parent, a preteen, or a weirdo hangin' by the movie fone for the big screen versions of High School Musical and Hannah Montana (and their attendant soundtracks) in 2008, keep waiting, because shoddy shooting scripts coupled with the WGA strike bleeding dry the pool of people who can punch those scripts up have left Disney in the franchise-fracturing position of possibly having to mothball both for the time being, thereby alienating "fickle" grade school fans and/or destroying what's left of the music (and ice tour!) industry as we know it! Maybe? More »

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Musical Toothbrush Changing The Way Children Experience Hannah Montana, Having Songs Beamed Into Their Brains

Now that purchasing music directly is out of style, how will the next generation consume their favorite Top 40 hits? And will they be able to do so while maintaining their daily personal hygiene routine? Hasbro's Tooth Tunes Musical Toothbrush is the only brush that sends music through your teeth...and into your head! Which two-minute song clip would you choose to be sent "through your jawbone to your inner ear? More »

What's the only surefire way to make the "Mutt Lange plus a pep rally" songs of High School Musical even more over the top? Bollywood covers! Plus Swedish, French, Cantonese...it's like an international buffet of mallrat showtunes. [Determined Dilettante; HT: Matos]

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Idolator Takes To The Ice With The Kids From High School Musical


So what did you all do with your Saturday evening? Well why you were all drinking in grownup bars or taking in art house movies or watching indie bands in intimate clubs or re-alphabetizing your Modern Library collection, Maura and I were braving disapproving looks from concerned parents eyeballing us like potential kidnappers as we tried to brave a wriggling army of screeching rugrats, all while resisting the urge to spend $15 on cotton candy because it came with a sweet purple plastic fedora. We were front row—well, as front row as I could afford, which wasn't very—at Madison Square Garden for "the one and only live fusion of songs, dance and team-spirited fun inspired by the smash hit Disney Channel Original Movie." Yes, this weekend Idolator took in High School Musical: The Ice Tour: More »

A mere 24 hours after Fox's life-on-Music-Row series Nashville got pulled from its time slot, ABC has given the green light to Limelight, an hourlong drama about performing-arts school students in New York that is "partly inspired by hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams." [Variety]

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Will Vanessa Hudgens' Leaked Pics Torpedo "High School Musical"'s Sales?

So yesterday, a picture that was rumored to be of High School Musical star/Zac Efron paramour Vanessa Hudgens in the buff made its way around the Internet, with various people (including the celebrity-nude forensic investigators at the NSFW Fleshbot) figuring that the picture was faked somehow. Well, surprise surprise: Hudgens' reps confirmed the picture as real late last night, thus setting off freak-outs all over the Web's gossip sites. But there's another issue at hand: How will this mini-scandal affect the sales of the High School Musical 2 soundtrack, which has had a vise-like grip over the Billboard 200's summit since it hit stores last month? We asked our resident chart guru Chris "dennisobell" Molanphy for his take on how this shot might affect the fate of one of the few albums that's actually shifting units these days. His analysis follows: More »

The High School Musical 2 soundtrack has six songs in this week's Billboard Hot 100—including the No. 33 song, "What Time Is It," which leaked all the way back in May but still sold 63,000 copies to Zac Efron-loving-tweens around the country. [Hollywood Reporter]

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"High School Musical" Continues Its Iron-Fist Chart Domination

As expected by, well, pretty much everyone, the soundtrack to High School Musical 2 topped this week's album charts, with 615,000 people ponying up to hear the latest songs by Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, and company. HSM2 was one of four Radio Disney-friendly albums in the top 20; Hannah Montana 2 was No. 2, the Jonas' Brothers self-titled album on Hollywood slipped to No. 8, and the original High School Musical Soundtrack vaulted all the way up from No. 28 to No. 16. The only catch about HSM2's debut? Its first-week total was about 8,000 shy of Linkin Park's first-week total for Minutes to Midnight. (Guess some of those kids grew up.) More »

Friday night's High School Musical 2 debut attracted 17.24 million viewers, making it the most-watched basic cable telecast ever. Also, having a post that mentioned Zac Efron really buoyed our traffic over the weekend a lot, so in an effort to keep that train rolling: Zac Efron Zac Efron Zac Efron. (OK, now I'm starting to feel like a love-struck girl doodling in her notebook during biology class. What was the question again?) [Hollywood Reporter]

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"High School Musical 2" Prepares To Take Over

Every week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is the soundtrack to High School Musical 2, which we tackled after its leak last week and will probably sell eight bazillion copies by next Monday: More »

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Resistance Is Futile: High School Musical 2 Is Here


ARTIST: Various Artists
TITLE: High School Musical 2
WEB DEBUT: Aug. 8, 2007
RELEASE DATE: Aug. 14, 2007 More »

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Leak Of The Day, Part Two: "High School Musical 2" Is Out For The Summer

The teenpop juggernaut High School Musical spawned a soundtrack that ruled the album-sales charts last year, and its summer vacation-themed sequel hits the Disney Channel in August. (A movie about summer break that comes out just as kids are picking out their new bookbags? That's sort of mean, no?) POPtastic! has an MP3 of the soundtrack's long-lead first single, which is probably being played on Radio Disney as you read this; it's called "What Time Is It," and if you've ever wondered what a drama-club reimagining of "Ain't No Other Man" might sound like, you may want to take a listen: More »