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🎵 Stick to the Status Quo

Practicing as TAYLOR · Scene 1: EAST HIGH SCHOOL - MONDAY, 7:45 A.M.

ZEKE ♪ You can bet there's nothing but net when I am in the zone and on a roll.
ZEKE ♪ But I've got a confession, my own secret obsession and it's making me lose control.
ALL ♪ Everybody gather 'round.
ZEKE Scones, strudel, even apple pandowdy. (spoken)
CLIQUES ♪ Not another sound!
ZEKE I dream of making the perfect creme brulee. (spoken)
CLIQUES ♪ No, no, no, no! No, no, no! Stick to the stuff you know.
CLIQUES ♪ If you wanna be cool, follow one simple rule; don't mess with the flow, no, no.
CLIQUES ♪ Stick to the status quo!
MARTHA COX Gabriella, you've changed my entire life! (spoken)
GABRIELLA I did? (spoken)
MARTHA COX ♪ Look at me and what do you see?
BRAINIACS ♪ Intelligence beyond compare.
MARTHA COX ♪ But inside I am stirring, something strange is occurring. It's a secret I need to share.
ALL ♪ Open up, dig way down deep.
MARTHA COX Hip-hop is my passion! I love to pop, lock, break, and jam. (spoken)
KRATNOFF Is that legal? (spoken)
CLIQUES ♪ Not another peep!
MARTHA COX It's just dancing. And the truth is, sometimes I think it's even cooler than homework. (spoken)
GABRIELLA, TROY ♪ No, no, no, no!
CLIQUES ♪ No, no, no!
GABRIELLA, TROY ♪ Don't stick to the stuff you know. If you wanna go far, got to reach for your star. Just follow your dreams and go! Don't stick to the status quo!
GABRIELLA, TROY, REBELS ♪ No! No, no, no!
GABRIELLA, TROY, REBELS ♪ Don't stick to the stuff you know.
GABRIELLA, TROY, REBELS ♪ No, you gotta be true to the thing that you do. No, don't be afraid to show
GABRIELLA, TROY, REBELS ♪ you won't stick to the status
CLIQUES ♪ Stick to the status quo!
GABRIELLA, TROY, REBELS ♪ quo!
SHARPAY ♪ This is not what I want. This is not what I planned. And I just gotta say,
SHARPAY ♪ I do not understand.
SHARPAY ♪ Something is really...
CLIQUES, REBELS ♪ Something is changing.
RYAN ♪ Something's not right!
SHARPAY ♪ really wrong.
CLIQUES, REBELS ♪ Something is happening.
RYAN, SHARPAY, CLIQUES ♪ And we gotta get things back where they belong!
REBELS ♪ Somehow I finally
REBELS ♪ belong! We can do it!
CLIQUES ♪ Stick with what you know!
REBELS ♪ We can do it!
MARTHA COX ♪ Hip-hop-hooray!
SHARPAY ♪ They have got to go!
REBELS ♪ We can do it!
ZEKE ♪ Crème brûlée!
SHARPAY ♪ Ev'rybody quiet!
GABRIELLA It's just a callback. I mean, is Sharpay really mad? (spoken)
TAYLOR Let's put it this way: No one has beaten out Sharpay for a musical since we were kids. (spoken)
ZEKE Troy, because of you, I'm finally going to give Sharpay a token of my love. Look. (spoken)
TROY I don't know that this is the best time to give Sharpay a cake. (spoken)
ALL ♪ No No No No No No No No
ALL ♪ Oh!
CLIQUES ♪ No! No, no, no!
REBELS ♪ No, no, no!
CLIQUES ♪ Stick to the stuff you know.
REBELS ♪ No!
REBELS ♪ Follow your dream and go!
CLIQUES ♪ It is better by far to keep things as they are.
REBELS ♪ Go! Go!
CLIQUES ♪ Don't mess with the flow, oh no.
REBELS ♪ Gotta live, gotta grow!
CLIQUES ♪ Stick to the status quo!
REBELS ♪ Don't stick to the status quo!