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Soundtrack
High School Musical
© Walt Disney

November 2 - 8, 2025

Year of Release: 2006
Rating:
  • Start Of Something New--
    Zac Efron Drew Seeley Vanessa Hudgens
  • Get'cha Head In The Game--
    Drew Seeley
  • What I've Been Looking For--
    Ashley Tisdale

    Lucas Grabeel
  • What I've Been Looking For
    (Reprise)--

    Drew Seeley

    Lucas Grabeel
  • Stick To The Status Quo--
    Ashley Tisdale
    Lucas Grabeel

    Chris Warren Jr.

    Kaycee Strom

    Dutch Whitlock
  • When There Was
    Me And You--

    Vanessa Hudgens
  • Bop To The Top--
    Ashley Tisdale

    Lucas Grabeel
  • Breaking Free--
    Zac Efron Drew Seeley
  • We're All In This Together--
    Drew Seeley

    Vanessa Hudgens

    Ashley Tisdale

    Lucas Grabeel

    Corbin Bleu

    Monique Coleman
  • I Can't Take My Eyes
    Off Of You--

    Drew Seeley

    Vanessa Hudgens

    Ashley Tisdale

    Lucas Grabeel
  • Get'cha Head In The Game--
    B5
  • Start Of Something New--
    Karaoke Instrumental
  • Breakig Free--
    Karaoke Instrumental

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    I've never seen both movies - High School Musical, High School Musical 2, but, the soundtracks to both movies reached #1 on Billboard's 200 Albums chart. The movie starred zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Alyson Reed, Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman. The movie was produced by the Disney channel. High School Musical follows student Troy Bolton (Efron), the captain of his school basketball team, and Gabriella Montez (Hudgens), an academically gifted transfer student, who together audition for the lead roles in the school musical, causing division among the school's cliques. High School Musical was released in 2006. Three singles were released from this movie: "Breaking Free" (Zac Efron, Drew Seeley, Lucas Grabeel), "Get'cha Head In The Game" (Drew Seeley), and "We're All In This Together" (Drew Seeley, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman).
    "Start Of Something New" (Zac Efron, Drew Seeley, Vanessa Hudgens) is a very good track to lead off the soundtrack, Pop at it's finest. "Get'cha Head In The Game" (Drew Seeley) is more on the hip-hop, being one of singles from the soundtrack. Next. "What I've Been Looking For" (Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel) is on the upbeat Pop side, however, the opening track "Start Of Something New" is better. The reprise of "What I've Been Looking For" (Drew Seeley, Lucas Grabeel) is slower, and better than the original. "Stick To The Status Quo" (Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Chris Warren Jr., Kaycee Stroh, Dutch Whitlock) is very upbeat, a good Pop track, and fitting the Pop-style of the newest 2000 century. Vanessa Hudgens' "When There Was Me And You" is a good Pop ballad-like track.
    "Bop To The Top" (Ashley Tisdale Lucas Grabeel has a Latino style; easily fitting another popular Latino artist, Jennifer Lopez. Definitely a ballad with a great piano introduction, Zac Efron and Drew Seeley's "Breaking Free" is an obvious hit single, as it kicks into another Pop-styled track. Another single, "We're All In This Together" (Drew Seeley, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu, Monique Coleman) is another upbeat track, and fitting the latest in Pop music, but, in my opinion, there are better upbeat Pop-styled tracks better than this one. "I Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" (Drew Seeley, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel) has all the musical styles of the latest Pop female stars, such as Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, and likewise (Beyonce) on B5's version of "Get'cha Head In The Game," fitting the styles of Hip-Hop and Rap. The last two tracks are karoke instrumenals - "Start Of Something New," and "Breaking Free."
    High School Musical appeals more to the high school kids in 2006, where the Pop styled tracks from the soundtracks fit with the other Pop tracks popular at that time. For us "old folks," the "Pop sound" is quite good. Yet there are those Pop songs that are quite better than the others. My choice for the best "Pop sound", would be "Start Of Something New" (Zac Efron, Drew Seeley, Vanessa Hudgens).
    Zac Efron would pursue greater ventures in his future movies and television career. Vanessa Hudgens would release two future albums in 2006 and 2008, and persue a film career. Drew Seeley would record many songs for the Walt Disney Company, and recorded three albums in 2006, 2011, and 2018. He also persued his future career in films, television, the web, and stage. As with her fellow co-stars, Ashley Tisdale has pursued in her career of films and music (releasing three albums, in 2007, 2009, and 2019). Lucas Grabeel also persued his career in films and television.
    The Pop music of the beginning 21st Century is heard on High School Musical. It fits the current musical sounds at that time. More for the high school kids of 2006. The second movie High School Musical was released the following year, 2007. Like the first soundtrack, HSM2 reached #1 on Billboard's 200 albums chart. High School Musical 3: Senior Year was released in 2008, however, it's soundtrack reached #2. A television series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series appeared on Disney+ in 2019 to 2023.
    The High School Musical 2 soundtrack will be reviewed at a later date.




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