"High School Musical" Reaches That Awkward Age [The Last Word]

Our look at the closing lines of the biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to Disney's soundtrack for the heartthrob-studded High School Musical 3, which lands in stores today: • "Youth has always been a commodity in popular art, but the best teen pop provides at least the illusion of freshness and wonder. There are flickers of those qualities here—in Vanessa Hudgens' sweetly nasal singing, for instance—but overall, this Musical is a strangely joyless pr...

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