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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Because Zac Efron's face is something I confront on a daily basis at work:

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[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

This is my problem with it, possibly. I quite like the idea of it (ok no this is a lie but that's mostly due to me being a massive goth and it being so relentlessly peppy) or at least don't hate it for invalid reasons, I just really don't like the few songs I've heard from it. I have no problem with it, per se, I just hate it on a selfish level.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Not liking the songs doesn't even bother me that much - there's a lot of stuff I'm into that I'm not in the target demographic for, but with HSM I'm really really not in the target demographic (unless I want to conform to a particularly horrible gay stereotype) and, y'know, it seems to be what the kidz want. I'm pretty sure the weird chastity/purity ring thing isn't actually going to affect any of them once the hormones kick in (also: it's not actually explicitly running the SEX = SHAME angle, is it? It's more SEX DOESN'T EXIST, which is...less unhealthy). The pep...yes, I hate that. That is why I also hate adult musicals.

Also while I dislike, like, 85% of the product, the four Tisdale bangers on her album and the Baby V freestyle track are really really amazingly great, so the whole HSM vehicle does come up trumps on occasion.

[koganbot]

--Only great HSM song per se: Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron, Drew Seeley "Breaking Free"
--Great Tisdale songs: The three singles you mentioned ("He Said, She Said," "Be Good To Me," "Not Like That")
--Really good Hudgens songs: "Say OK," "Don't Just Go Back, Arrive" (Sears Ad)
--Great Hudgens songs: "Don't Talk," "Identified," "Amazed" f. Lil Mama, "First Bad Habit."

That's a ridiculous number of good and great material from the Hudge (7 songs), given that her voice fundamentally doesn't have a whole lot to give.

[poptasticuk.livejournal.com]

Liking HSM wouldn't be conforming to a "horrible gay stereotype" - I know which stereotype you're referring to (an unpleasant one as it makes gay men seem stupid and intelligent ones think they have to act stupid), but I also know loads of intelligent and interesting 20-something gay men who love HSM just as they love pop music and trashy TV and musicals and so on. Just because they like something which fits into a negative stereotype about them doesn't mean they didn't choose freely to like it.