Vanessa Hudgens. Not naked.
p2pnet news | TV:- Yes, folks, it’s Vanessa Hudgens time again.
Kinda.
Only this time, the post isn’t about her taking a clothes off, frolicking with a friend, or anything else along those lines.
Hudgens stars in a Disney kiddie thingie which, beyond its association with Vanessa, isn’t otherwise mentioned.
It’s called called High School Musical and it’s, “broken broadcasting records in Australia, airing to the highest number of viewers ever for a movie on pay TV here,” says Reuters, going on:
“The Disney Channel Australia premiere averaged 313,976 viewers Saturday, and a 55.4% share of kids ages five to 15 years, also making it the highest-rated kids program to air on pay TV here. Disney Channel is available to about 26% of the country’s 7 million TV homes.”
Could that be anything to do with ……….?
Anyhow, it also made its debut in New Zealand where it’s reviewed by the Dominion Post’s Jane Clifton in a story carried by Stuff and which kicks off:
“The American writer Dorothy Parker used to review literature in a column called The Constant Reader, and every once in a while, after confronting a particular kind of literature, Constant Reader would affect a lisp, and report: ‘Constant Weeder fwowed up’.”
heh
The story goes on
This is pretty much how many Constant Viewers are likely to feel for the first half-hour of High School Musical II, the tele-movie which debuted on Sky’s Disney Channel on Saturday. Can they be serious? you think. Isn’t this 2007?
How can Disney still be making money out of a sugar-rush mega version of The Partridge Family, without the faintest hint of post-modern irony? It’s like watching a Mormon version of the Paris Hilton story. What on earth is the point?”
Clifton answers her own question with:
The phenomenon of High School Musical is its totally unapologetic retro sappiness. It is wholesome to the point of being shocking. There’s something heroic about it. Here is a programme in which attractive young people rush about in skimpy clothes, wiggling their bodies a lot and singing about luuurv, and yet it is utterly sexless. There is no swearing. There is no drunkenness, smoking, nor hint of any substance stronger than chewing gum. No tagging. No mindless swigging of water bottles. No piercings, no iPod sullenness. These are teenagers behaving like responsible little angels. For a whole two TV hours. To music. And not even rap music.
We have been beamed back to 1950s Disneyland, where every young teen is wholesome, virginal, clean-cut, good-natured and bound to Do the Right Thing in the end. Even the token naughty girl.
But, it’ll …
… lodge in your brain. Even while it irritates the living daylights out of you, you will understand that it’s well- written, clever pop musical fodder. You will hope devoutly that no member of your household buys the soundtrack, because you will – may God strike you down – inevitably find yourself humming bits of it.
“The dancing and choreography are also terrific. Even as you fwow up, you cannot help but admire the synchronised swimmy bits and the leaping about over school desks and the business on the baseball diamond. These kids are sickeningly talented.
Now you know.
Also See:
Reuters – “High School Musical 2″ breaks Aussie records, September 24, 2007
Stuff – High School Musical sickeningly wholesome, September 25, 2007
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September 27th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I have to admit, i’m more interested when she’s naked….
September 27th, 2007 at 10:13 am
“the highest number of viewers ever for a movie on pay TV here,”
at least the BBC had the good sense to air it after midnight (where I live) when almost noone watched it .
and for free.
too bad Oz parents paid for ppv.
how many times has it been downloaded in free p2p? countless times.
September 27th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Until the nude photo emerged, I had no idea of who this girl was, much less that she had any impact whatever on society. Nude or not, she has had no impact on mine, to the point of not even knowing her name prior to the image surfacing.
Now I know her name but she still has as much effect on my life as does Paris Hilton, which is to say, I recognise the name but beyond that is the great void and lack of interest to know more. The idea that it is fodder for the news media only reflects to me the dumbing down of broadcast news. There is no meat to the subjects that make them interesting to me and there is no way they intrude upon my life in such a way as to affect it beyond noticing that the names occupy a space in a news article that is filler.
So what I get out of this is that it is the teen version remake of Grease, changed a bit so there is no copyright claims that can be made for infringement.
Lets face it, corporate media is down to the remake of the remake of the remake. Fresh ideas no longer exist in a formulated backdrop designed with the shareholders in mind and not willing to take chances for the sake of art itself. The epic age of dumbed down mediocre offerings now reigns supreme.
I realised a few years ago that I no longer was connected to what passes for entertainment on the broadcast media. I looked at tv shows that others found humorous, saw the canned laughter as the cue the punch line had passed by, and thought to myself it was awful when they have to tell you where the punchline is because you might not have enough intelligence to recognise it when it went by. It totally removed any remaining thought that such programs were entertainment to me. I honestly can not see where the public finds humor in such subpar shows.
September 27th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Why do you keep posting articles about this girl? This has nothing to do with p2p or tech.
September 27th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/13456
enuff said
February 7th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
vanessa is it true you wer laked i saw you so huw do picture hew pictured you wen your naked is zac efron
March 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 am
you are very nice. i love you