We All in (Therapy) Together

Come on, I’m not too much of a theater snob to forget about the movie musical.

The year is 2006. Bush is president. The Steelers are Super Bowl champions. Paris Hilton got a DUI. What is a seven-year-old doing, you might ask? Sitting on the couch, unknowingly watching the opening moments of a multi-billion-dollar franchise unfold on my living room TV.

Say what you want about High School Musical, but it was a cultural reset. Between three films, live tours, and a spin-off television show that debuted today’s biggest pop star in the country, High School Musical’s undeniable force throughout the mid-2000s persists today, and there’s something to be said for that. When I watched High School Musical 2 with my roommate a few weeks ago, I posted a picture of one of the frames on my Snapchat story with the caption, “Where were you when this movie came out on Disney Channel?” The amount of meticulously detailed responses I got back kinda blew my mind.

You might be wondering: Emily, you’ve been extremely (annoyingly) open about your life in these blogs so far, are you really just going to analyze the High School Musical franchise? Have no fear, reader because here is it: 2006 is also the first year I started going to therapy.

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