Cheesy Musical
If you've never watched the Disney channel than you may not be aware of a phenomenon rocking the nation. A new musical of pure cheesy goodness. If you are a dork like me and a big sucker for stories that have characters breaking out in song in the middle of the gym or cafeteria then "High School Musical" is the cheese fest for you.
It's the story of two teens, the basketball star and the academic club star that secretly audition for the school's musical. The message is obvious(acceptance and being yourself) and the story very familiar(Disneyfied "Grease"), but it's oddly addictive. The songs stick in your head. A minute ago I heard my daughter singing "Bop, bop, bop till you drop". My boys have been heard singing "Getcha, getcha head in the game". They begrudingly admit that they like the movie. The DVD even shows you the dance moves. My kids won't let me watch that part in fear of actually watching me (or worse their friends watching me) do the dance moves.
It's no "Grease", but I'm not sure I want my kids singing the lyrics to songs like "Greased Lightning". Remember these lines:
"You are supreme the chicks'll cream for grease lightning"
or
"You know that I ain't bragging she's a real pussy wagon"
Of course, I remember singing these very same words at the top of my lungs in my basement during our countless renditions of "Grease". I had no idea what any of it meant. Just the same it's kind of nice to have something that's wholesome without being so sweet it gives me a toothache or makes me want to barf.
Wouldn't life be easier to take if you could break out in song to express your every emotion. My husband says the next fight we have he's going to break out in song. I dare him.
posted by kim | 6/01/2006 05:05:00 PM
8 Comments:
I'm trying to figure out why that thing was called High School Musical. No high school kid would ever watch that thing. Do they think the audience would be actually high school kids? It's only for young kids and middle age mom's, oh, and serial killers.
I can't even sit through the 30 second promos. But if I watched it ten times in a row and then killed a bunch of people I could get off with a insanity defense. High School Musical, a shotgun, the food court at the mall... EVERYBODY START SINGING AND DANCING OR I'M GONNA BLOW YOUR ASSES AWAY!!!!!!
Now that's a high school musical.
I knew this one would get you. It actually made me all giggly as I wrote it. You know they make pills for that cheesy musical induced rage. Get help!
At least I didn't squawk about your use of parentheticals - two in the same sentence. Might I suggest the use of a dash (or maybe even a comma) instead?
Ah,.. twice you have given me Elements of Style for a present. The circle is complete. The student has become the master. Oh wait, I was always better than you. You took remedial English, whilst I deconstructed Walt Whitman poems.
Yes, but then they saw my test scores and bumped me to gifted English. Funny, I don't remember you being in gifted English.
You may have better punctuation skills, but you steal my ideas. You know the ex-military guy who sits around smoking pot and watching Fox News all day--that was mine!
Frankly I find both of you all’s writing puerile and beneath me.
Those of us with bona fided talent were able to avoid the extra work of AP English like the twaddle it was and get by with slipping term papers under the teacher’s desk 3 days late!
Why sir I do take offense to thee. I must slap thou face with thy gloved hand and challenge thee to a duel. My honor has been tarnished by your scathing wretched prose. We shall settle this like gentlemen and shoot each other in the face whilst our loved ones drink mint julips in the garden.
My two girls love this - how they can watch the same thing ninety-five times in a row is a mystery to me.
But I agree - it's good clean fun.
And like yours, my children live in fear of their friends seeing me dance.
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