High School Musical
 

I wasn't sure where to post this - in the 2006 music thread, the parents dynasty thread, or hell, the Nickelback thread - but I have to get it out because it's driving me crazy...

Has anyone been as unfortunate as me to have seen this Disney movie? It's basically what it says it is, a "musical" set in a high school, that is roughly based on the Grease premise (BMOC meets cute shy chick on vacation, then she happens to move to his town and they meet again in school). In what I'm sure is a harbinger of bad things to come, my 6-year old daughter has fallen in love with this movie. And lucky for my wife and me, she's been home from school all summer and has watched this damn movie non-stop. It's gotten to the point where she watches it so much that I've pretty much memorized all the songs, against my will. My wife and I catch each other spontaneously breaking out into one of the songs for no apparent reason. I wake up and the first thing that pops into my head is one of these songs. It's awful. Our 2-year old, who is just learning to speak in sentences, has learned half of her vocabulary from singing along to these damn songs. If this isn't a case for repetition making music popular/catchy (as opposed to the other way around), then I don't know what is.

If my 6-year old is into this stuff now, I shudder to think what her teenage years are going to do to me. Someone please join me in hell so it will make me feel better. :(

It's my daughter's favorite thing right now (she's 10)...I've never had the occasion to watch it with her (she's got a TV in her room for that), but it's one of the top topics among her and her friends.

We won't let her have a TV in her room (ever, or so we say), but this is making me reconsider.

My daughters, 6 and 7, are the same way about that movie. I haven't watched it yet, but anytime we're watching Disney and that show comes on in commercial or one of Disney's between show videos, they both jump up and sing the song and dance along. At least my step-daughter agrees with me that they're a bit off when they do that...

Do your kids like to watch the same movie over and over again? I mean, they could watch Spy Kids today then, if you ask them what movie they want to watch tomorrow, they'll say Spy Kids. Unless you tell them no, let's watch something else, they will pick the same movie forever...ok, maybe that's just mine. :)

The youngest two share a room and don't have a tv in their room. They do, however, have a tv in a little sitting area so they can watch tv apart from the big screen downstairs when I don't want to watch whatever they want to...like during football or college basketball season.

All kids do that. Mine are the same way. The youngest one will watch Toy Story 2 repeatedly, but refuses to watch the original Toy Story. It's very odd.

My 9 year old daughter loves this movie. Imagine my surprise when I came home one day to find a poster of one of the boys from the movie on her bedroom wall (girls from the movie were there as well, but 1 boy). I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

I guess this movie has taken the pre-teen girl demographic by storm. At least I'm not alone. No posters on the wall yet, either.

Well, I guess there are worse things kids could be addicted to...

Five bucks says the guy is Zack Efron (or something like that)....he's all my daughter talks about. Better him than some guy she could actually interact with.

Yep, that's the guy.

I say we hunt him down and castrate him. You in?

One could say that there would be no need for castration in Zac Efron's case, but that would be too easy...

There is a big article about it and its stars in one of the most recent Newsweeks. I guess it started out as a made for TV movie and then blew up and has sold a ton of DVDs, CDs, and other merchandise.

Man, that means there's either a series or a sequel in the works...or both...

isnt the soundtrack something like the biggest selling album of the year? if it isnt, its waaay up there.

Disney chicks are hot! Don't worry too much about the plot, just enjoy the scenery.

My daughters swoon over the boys and I swoon over the chicks. Quality family entertainment!

This thread is by far the closest topic I can think of, that would signal not only the end of this board, but the world. :)

And yes, my girlfriends 8 year old daughter loves this movie and talks about it all the time.

I kept seeing bits and pieces of this movie, so finally I just went out and bought the soundtrack and DVD because it was bugging me to see it and listen to the whole thing.

...Odd part is, I haven't got around to watching it yet and I don't listen to soundtracks without seeing the movie first.

Please, Jim, release your game. We've gone round the bend.

You're kidding, right? Those girls look like they're barely 16. And the bitchy chick from the movie has a huge schnozz.

Do you still get a hard-on for Hannah Montana even knowing that she's Billy Ray Cyrus' real-life daughter?

Wait...don't answer that. I don't think I want to know.

OK, the jig is up. Between this and the fragrance thread, you've blown your cover. This is all an act.

I am actually very glad for this thread, because I was concerned that my daughter was the only one that was so enamored of this damn movie.

I have been lucky to avoid seeing it, but from what I understand my daughter (she is 6) has seen it at least a dozen times at her moms house (ex-wife)

what is worse is she is draggin my 8 year old son in on it. So far I have escaped the horror - nothing this bad since the damn wiggles.

I haven't been so lucky. I'd estimate that I've seen this movie (or substantial parts of it) at least 30 times. And that's not counting having to listen to the soundtrack around the house or in the car.

My sister has a 7-year-old daughter and according to my mom, it's apparently all the rage at my sister's house now. Whew. I'm glad we don't watch Disney in our house. :) My oldest daughter's not quite three, so this sort of thing may be over her by a decent margin, but still.... With the amount of sports I watch, she's actually quite used to my viewing habits and even says "Go Wolfpack!" or "Go Hurricanes!" whenever they're playing. Ah, the indoctrination starts early. If I can't have boys, I'm going to make sure the girls are into sports as much as humanly possible anyway..... :D

Advanced warning for the parents of FOFC...

'High School Musical' concert tour set Posted 10/23/2006 11:25 PM ET

Enlarge By Frazer Harrison, Getty Images The cast from High School Musical (l-r) Lucas Grabeel, Monique Coleman, Corbin Bleu, Ashley Tisdale, Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens. LOS ANGELES (AP) — High School Musical is hitting the road with a nationwide concert tour featuring stars of the hit TV movie that has grown into a pop-culture phenomenon. Cast members including Monique Coleman and Lucas Grabeel will take part in the 40-city tour that is scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in San Diego. High School Musical: The Concert expands the Disney Channel franchise that has already produced a triple-platinum selling soundtrack and a planned movie sequel. The concert, to feature songs from the film, will also include cast members Corbin Bleu, Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens. Joining them will be Drew Seeley, who co-wrote Get'cha Head in the Game and sang on the High School Musical soundtrack. Coleman is currently on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which ends Nov. 15. Another star of the film, Zac Efron, is working on the movie version of the musical Hairspray and will miss the tour. Kenny Ortega, the film's Emmy Award-winning director and choreographer, is the creative director for the concert, staged by Buena Vista Music Group, the recording and music publishing arm for The Walt Disney Co. Bob Cavallo, chairman of Buena Vista Music Group, who noted the soundtrack is the year's top-selling album so far and is on track to finish at No. 1, offered his perspective on the appeal of High School Musical. "A full-scale musical, a burst-into-song musical, was made so that youngsters feel it was made for them. It was their subjects, their issues, their music," Cavallo said Monday. "It was well made, a story with heart." Disney is already scoring a success with another concert based on a TV musical, The Cheetah Girls, which is on a sold-out tour of at least 60 cities. Tickets for High School Musical concerts go on sale Nov. 4, with one Canadian stop, in Toronto, planned. The schedule for the tour that concludes Jan. 28 in Las Vegas: • San Diego, Nov. 11 • Sacramento, Calif., Dec. 5 • Stockton, Calif., Dec. 7 • Portland, Ore., Dec. 10 • Salt Lake City, Dec. 13 • Bossier City. La., Dec. 16 • Dallas, Dec. 17 • Houston, Dec. 18 • Tampa, Fla., Dec. 20 • Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 21 • Columbia, S.C., Dec. 22 • Charlotte, N.C., Dec. 23 • Greensboro, N.C., Dec. 27 • Washington, D.C., Dec. 28 • Long Island, N.Y., Dec. 29 • Manchester, N.H., Dec. 30 • Toronto, Jan. 2 • Rochester, N.Y., Jan. 3 • Hartford, Conn., Jan. 4 • Pittsburgh, Jan. 6 • Albany, N.Y., Jan. 7 • East Rutherford, N.J., Jan. 8 • Worcester, Mass., Jan. 10 • Philadelphia, Jan. 11 • Cincinnati, Jan. 13 • Cleveland, Jan. 14 • Auburn Hills, Mich., Jan. 16 • Indianapolis, Jan. 17 • Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 18 • Chicago, Jan. 19 • Milwaukee, Jan. 21 • St. Louis, Jan. 22 • Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 23 • Anaheim, Calif., Jan. 26 • Fresno, Calif., Jan. 27 • Las Vegas, Jan. 28

Disney's certainly got its stuff together. Everything they touch, in terms of kids music, is turning to gold. I bought this for my daughter as a Christmas present (we start buying early). And one of our attorneys' daughters dressed up as Hannah Montana for Halloween.

The next 15 years are going to be REAL fun...!


Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter tops charts


LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Like father, like daughter.

The 13-year-old offspring of 1990s country music star Billy Ray Cyrus grabbed the No. 1 position on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday with the soundtrack to her hit Disney Channel cable TV series "Hannah Montana," her label said.

The Walt Disney Records set sold more than 280,000 copies in the week ended October 29, becoming the first television soundtrack to open in the top slot, according to the Walt Disney Co.-owned label.

"Hannah Montana" stars 13-year-old Miley Cyrus as a schoolgirl who leads a secret nocturnal existence as a famous musician. The disc mostly consists of tunes credited to her titular alter ego but Miley and her father perform a duet on one track.

Billy Ray Cyrus, who plays her dad on the show, is best known for the 1992 novelty single "Achy Breaky Heart." His debut album, "Some Gave All," topped the U.S. pop charts for 17 weeks that year.

Walt Disney Records also released the No. 1 album of 2006, the soundtrack to the Disney Channel TV movie "High School Musical," which has sold more than 3 million copies. It scaled the charts to spend two weeks at No. 1 earlier this year.

So... who added this to their Netflix queue today?

I admit to firing up a you tube video just to see who she was. . .other than the picture of who she was. . .

One of the High School Musical chicks has a nekkid pic on the net.

Yeah, and since she's 18 and not 17, it's not totally creepy that 30+ year olds are searching endlessly for the pic.





Me? I ain't 30+ yet. :)

On a mostly unrelated note, I'm waiting for society to collapse enough that we can have a high school production of the South Park movie, music and all. Sure, you might have to make some cuts for time (and some minor stuff for content that's too over the top even for a collapsed society). But one day I want to see this performed live. On Broadway, even :D

SI

Haha!!! I just noticed this thread after posting my crappy parody thread!!!