In recent years, The Walt Disney Company has made numerous remakes and spin-offs of their original movies and shows. One of these is the Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series , which has received its fair share of praise and criticism. Throughout, there are many covers of songs from the source material (the Disney Channel original movie High School Musical ), but what really shine are the new songs written specifically for this show. “Second Chance” is one of the few songs that stuck with me after watching the series. It’s the closing song for the second season (out of four total). A major theme of this season is making mistakes, hurting, and healing. By the last episode, the four main characters are closing their arcs and this song solidifies what they have learned. Ricky, Nini, EJ, and Gina have all lived different, but intertwined lives, which blend beautifully together in this quartet. The song opens as a duet between Ricky and Nini, easing in with j
If you’ve ever tried to do two things at once, you know it’s difficult to keep them both going. The classic example is when kids try (and sometimes fail) to rub their stomach and pat their head at the same time. There are so many things you could try to multitask with, and Hillary Klug has found her passion: her unique blend of fiddling and dancing. Hillary Klug was born and raised in a small town in Tennessee, only recently moving to Nashville. She had already been practicing the dance style of clogging for years when she took her first violin lesson at age 13. Her family really had no connection to dance or music, so Klug was out on her own. Even so, her family was very supportive. She found a mentor who taught her how to fiddle–different from what she learned at violin lessons–and soon fiddling became a core part of her identity. Later on, another mentor helped her shift her clogging into buck dancing, a similar style, and inspired her to carry on this tradition. Her mentors became