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Bryan) rehearse in a dance studio, singing, dancing, and doing aerobics as
they boast that they are superstars and plan to prove it.
“Stick to the Status Quo” is the wry character song about breaking away
from stereotypes written by David N. Lawrence and Faye Greenberg for
the television movie High School Musical (2006). When basketball player
Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and mathematics whiz Gabriella Montez (Vanessa
Anne Hudgens) go against type and audition for the school’s “Spring
Musicale,” other students start to break the mold and express their hidden
dreams: A nerd wants to be a hip hop dancer, a basketball player longs to be
a baker, a skater dude confesses his affinity for playing the cello, and so on.
This is all to the chagrin of the two drama mainstays, the snobbish Sharpay
Evans (Ashley Tisdale) and her brother, Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), who feel
their territory is being threatened by outsiders. Other students agree and
warn all these rebels to stick to the things they know in this piquant and
funny song.
“Stick-to-it-ivity” is the bouncy song of resilience written by Larry Morey
and Eliot Daniel for an animated sequence in the rustic film So Dear to My
Heart (1948). When it looks like the Indiana youth Jeremiah Kincaid will
never raise enough money to bring his pet ram, Danny, to the county fair,
he is encouraged by the Wise Old Owl (voice of Ken Carson) in the boy’s
scrapbook. The animated bird sings about not giving up and illustrates his
point with scenes showing explorer Christopher Columbus and the Scottish
freedom fighter Robert the Bruce pursuing their dreams despite the odds
against them.
“Stories” is the soaring ballad Belle (voice of Paige O’Hara) sings in the
made-for-video animated musical Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted
Christmas (1997). Rachel Portman (music) and Don Black (lyric) wrote the
pleasing song in which Belle imagines how she will read stories to the Beast
and allow him to travel to magical places in his imagination. As she sings,
her own imagination shows her running through the pages of an illustrated
storybook with the Beast.
“Straight to the Heart of Love” is the country-flavored pop song John
Hiatt wrote and sang in the satirical movie The Country Bears (2002). The
popular rock group Country Bears, who broke up over infighting, are reunited
in a concert to save Country Bear Hall, the venue where they first
got started. The pop star Hiatt sings the song, about finding one’s way to