#My sincerest apologies to all those who don’t know the context to this scene

[sunsetsandsunshine]

No one

Absolutely no one

2007 Leo:

[rinisbowen]

so i know rini not singing “gotta go my own way” in season 2 was a missed opportunity. like it absolutely would’ve changed the gravity of how things did go down, and i really appreciated the emotional weight of the scene we did get if it had to end that way, but also- it was a perfect opportunity for the song... it fits so well with their arc at that point in the story. they even have necklaces that can be sadly removed and placed into the palm of one’s hand.

but what if someone sings it in season 3?

like idk when we found out season 3 was a summer season i kinda had a moment of like... wow wait a second maybe this is exactly why we barely got any high school musical 2 songs in season 2. maybe they were intentionally saving them. 

like the odds that “gotta go my own way” is one of the songs they would want to use for season 3 are very uncertain... given the dancers had ‘pool rehearsals’ i’d be willing to bet we perhaps see some rendition of maybe “fabulous”. (my sincerest apologies to those who wanted seb’s full version of fabulous) but i don’t think i’m thinking about something out of the question. 

“gotta go my own way” talking about “i’ve gotta leave but i’ll miss you”. i want to be happy but things are not working the way we wanted and i can’t do this anymore. “we might find our place in this world someday, but at least for now... i gotta go my own way”. goodness gracious this song is so fitting for rini’s breakup in season 2 but i’ll shut up about them for the moment, i apologize. that’s a strong message for a very solid breakup moment... and well- with the tagline being ‘love is an open door’ i don’t think the idea that we see another big breakup is out of the question. but there’s also the context of the movie where troy and gabriella get back together and so even if we see a breakup that doesn’t automatically mean it’s permanent depending on the implications of the scene.

i don’t think we’re going to see any hsm3 songs in season 3. they’d be best saving a lot of that for the rini / kourtney / big red graduation season. but i do think this is the perfect chance for them to do something with some of the unused hsm2 numbers, and maybe some of the ones they touched on in the medley. 

the only hsm2 songs i don’t see as having any real chance of returning are “bet on it” (ricky gave that song everything that needed to be given, i don’t think they’re going to bring it back even in new circumstances.), and “you are the music in me” (rini did it to a pretty full extent in the 2.01 medley in comparison to a lot of the other shorter song pieces, and then the cast did a rendition ooc for the finale / wrap day, so i think the song has been used.) 

they could pull out the troy/sharpay version of “you are the music” in me... i suppose? i’ve seen people joking on twitter about ricky / lily doing the troy / sharpay “you are the music in me”, because lily has the chaotic energy to pull off the over the top sharpay moment, and ricky has the lost but competent vibes of troy. and i mean if you want to point out the ways lily’s not quite right for ricky then juxtaposing that song that fits his relationship with nini and that he sang wholeheartedly with nini in the ballad style on his guitar to him putting on that mess of a production number type ordeal with lily... it’s not a bad concept. but it’s not one i see the writers pulling out of the hat because well- frankly it feels like a waste of time in such a short season. 

but yeah idk. the reason i mention we might see some of the medley numbers (aside from you are the music in me) in full, is because imdb has episode 1 as being titled ‘all for one’ and as such i would be quite surprised not to see them singing “all for one”. and that was in the medley. also- i know “fabulous” is in the medley and i think it’s possible we see its return as per my earlier mention of pool rehearsals with the dancers. i mean they could also just be rehearsing in the pool just like- for a general pool scene that’s not a musical number but... idk. 

the show does tend to focus towards the original songs, which is entirely understandable, and we’re dealing with a lot of sources to pull from to some uncertain degree, so i don’t think we’ll get a ton of hsm2 songs, but i do think that we’ll get a good few to go with the summer season energy. it’s the summer movie- it would be a waste if they didn’t.