| | High School Musical 3: Senior Year Soundtrack CD (3 Customer Reviews)
Personnel: Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Lucas Grabeel, Zac Efron, Olesya Rulin, Matt Prokop, Jemma McKenzie-Brown (vocals). Audio Remasterer: Patricia Sullivan. Arrangers: Marco Luciani; Jennifer Hammond; Fred Kron; Marshall Bowen; David Guilli; David Lawrence; Robbie Nevil. For the third installment in the massively successful HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL series, the Disney production makes the leap from TV to the big screen. HSM3's music also works on a larger scale, with a fuller, more cinematic sound that is immediately revealed on the R&B/hip-hop-tinged opener, "Now or Never." While the entire cast is featured on the soundtrack, Zac Efron, who stars as Troy Bolton, gets the most airtime, with "The Boys Are Back" and "Scream" showcasing the charming young actor/singer. True to HSM form, the album is filled with lively teen-pop, making SENIOR YEAR exactly what fans had hoped it would be. Lost in the shuffle of the ever-growing High School Musical phenomenon -- growing so big, it can no longer be contained on the Disney Channel, it's now reaching theaters for its third and final installment -- is that the tween-sensation is actually a musical. Which means that despite its pop trappings, the soundtracks consist of full-blown show tunes, songs that serve the story and are sung by the rotating cast. This helps make the movies work, but it sentences the soundtracks to be mere souvenirs of the event, a record for fans to play endlessly, not a means to crossover to a wider pop audience. On HSM3, there are only two songs that stand out as potential pop singles, both not so coincidentally solo showcases for the franchise's two biggest stars, Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. Hudgens has the album's best song in the slickly soulful "Walk Away" -- a tune that would have shown up Wilson Phillips circa 1990 -- that she sings better than Efron, whose "Scream" struts like *NSYNC circa 2000. But both are upstaged by stage brat Ashley Tisdale, who shows far more on-record charisma on her fame-hungry showcase "I Want It All," a song that has absolutely no chance of making sense outside of the senior skip-day plot line of High School Musical 3, but Tisdale performs with ingratiating vigor, using every chop she's learned as a stage kid. Of course, those very strengths are well-suited for a musical like High School Musical 3, where the songs are vehicles for showboating performances either on the screen or in a fan's bedroom -- and for those fans, this set, which is similar in every way to its two predecessors, will not disappoint. ~ Stephen Thomas ErlewineEntertainment Weekly (p.70) - "This is a high-fructose musical confection, yes, but expertly done -- by turns witty, anthemic, and even genuinely angsty..." -- Grade: B+ High School Musical 3: Senior Year Soundtrack Music | List Price | $19.98 (You save $4.09) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Soundtrack CDs | | Label | Walt Disney | | Orig Year | 2008 | | All Time Sales Rank | 32714  | | CD Universe Part number | 7739655 | | Catalog number | 000271402 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 21, 2008 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Kenny Ortega; Bill Borden; Rasmus Billie Bahncke; Barry Rosenbush; Jamie Houston; Adam Watts; Matthew Gerrard; Andy Dodd; Adam Anders | | Engineer | Ryan Peterson; Jeremy Luzier; Jamie Houston; Joel Soyffer; Joseph Magee; Matthew Gerrard; Adam Anders; Brian Malouf; Cary Butler |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year Soundtrack Songs High School Musical 3: Senior Year Soundtrack Music Review Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)   i like high school musical 3 very much I like high school musical 3 very much. Submitted by ah bee_94 (malaysia) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
high school musical thr best ever highschool musical is the best, 1,2 and 3. they have fantastic songs to sing and dance to. The last 1 made me cry it was sooo sweet. It reminds me of me n sum1, thats how good it is. I hope they make a number 4 but with the same people in it. Troy is hot as anything, Gabriella and Troy make a cute couple. I love it to bits!!! Submitted by Samantha (Melbourne) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
awesomeness my favourite cd!! I love the movie Submitted by miss_rachel_june_kelly (st.catharines) Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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