"Start of Something New" is the first song of High School Musical. It is performed by Troy Bolton (voiced by Drew Seeley and partially by Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens).
The song is also featured on the first season of the Disney+ spin-off series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and its soundtrack, sung by Nini Salazar-Roberts (Olivia Rodrigo), E.J. Caswell (Matt Cornett) and Gina Porter (Sofia Wylie).
Background[]
High School Musical
This song is when Troy and Gabriella first meet. During the "Rock the House Contest", at the teen New Year's Eve party, Troy and Gabriella are randomly chosen to sing in front of everybody. At first, they're both shy, but eventually they warm up to each other and give an amazing performance with the crowd going wild.
Later in the movie, after Troy's teammates Chad, Jason and Zeke tell him how they tried to break him and Gabriella up, Troy goes to Gabriella's house to apologize. He goes on her balcony and serenades her with a reprise version of the song, causing Gabriella to realize how much Troy truly cares about her and forgive him.
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series
The song is featured in the first episode of the first season of the show, "The Auditions", and it is performed by students Nini, E.J., and Gina as their audition song to star in East High's production of High School Musical.
Lyrics[]
Troy:
Livin' in my own world
Didn't understand
That anything can happen
When you take a chance
Gabriella:
I never believed in
What I couldn't see
I never opened my heart (Troy: oh)
To all the possibilities, ooh-ooh
Both:
I know
Gabriella:
That something has changed
Both:
Never felt this way
Gabriella:
And right here, tonight
Both:
This could be the start of something new
Gabriella:
It feels so right
Both:
To be here with you, oh
And now lookin' in your eyes
Gabriella:
I feel in my heart (Troy: Feel in my heart)
Both:
The start of something new (Troy: Oh, yeah)
Troy:
Now who'd have ever thought that
Both:
We'd both be here tonight? (Troy: Oh)
Gabriella:
Yeah
And the world looks so much brighter, oh (Troy: Brighter, brighter)
With you by my side (Troy: By my side)
Both:
I know that something has changed
Never felt this way
Gabriella:
I know it for real
Both:
This could be the start of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you, oh
And now lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
Gabriella:
The start of something new
Troy:
I never knew that it could happen
'Til it happened to me
Oh, yeah
Both:
I didn't know it before
Gabriella:
But now it's easy to
Both:
See, oh
Both:
It's the start of something new
It feels so right
To be here with you, oh
And now lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
That it's the start of something new
It feels so right (Troy: So right)
Gabriella:
To be here with you
Both:
Oh
And now lookin' in your eyes (Troy: Lookin' in your eyes)
Gabriella:
I feel in my heart (Troy: Feel in my heart)
The start of something new (Troy: The start of something new)
The start of
Both:
Something new
Troy:
This could be the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you, oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
Nini:
Livin' in my own world
Didn't understand
That anything can happen
When you take a chance
I never believed in
What I couldn't see
I never opened my heart
To all the possibilities, oooh
I know
That something has changed
Never felt this way
And right here tonight
This could be the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you, oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
I never knew that it could happen
'Til it happened to me, oh yeah
I didn't know it before
But know it's easy to
See, oh
It's the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you, oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
E.J.:
This could be the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you, oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
Gina:
Livin' in my own world
Didn't understand
That anything can happen
When you take a chance
I never believed in
What I couldn't see
I never opened my heart
To all the possibilities, oooh
I know
That something has changed
Never felt this way
And right here tonight
This could be the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you, oh
And now looking in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new
Appearances[]
- High School Musical (2006)
- High School Musical: The Concert (2007)
- High School Musical: The Ice Tour (2007)
- High School Musical: Sing It! (2006) - Cover Version
- Disney Sing It (2008)
- Disney Sing It! – High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)
- High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (2019)
Peak Chart Positions[]
| Title | Year | US | US Pop |
ITA | UK | Certifications | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Start of Something New" (Performed by Efron, Seeley & Hudgens) |
2006 | 28 | 30 | 33 | 90 | RIAA: Gold BPI: Silver |
High School Musical |
International Versions[]
| Title | Language | Singers |
|---|---|---|
| "Наверх в облака" (Naverkh, V Oblaka) |
Russian | Sergey Lazarev & Kseniya Larina |
| "Algo Va a Empezar" | Spanish (Mexico) | Gerardo & Mariana (High School Musical: La Selección) |
| "Yeh Man Gaaye Kyon" | Hindi | Naresh Kamath & Sunidhi Chauhan |
Trivia[]
- The actual name of the song in the movie was "Something New".
- This is one of only two songs in the first film where Zac sings, most notably the opening and closing lines; Drew Seeley does the majority of Troy's singing. The other song with Zac's partial lead vocals is Breaking Free.
- Efron sang the entirety of the reprise Troy sings in Gabriella's balcony.
- Seeley sang the entirety of Troy's parts in this song in High School Musical: The Concert, when Efron was filming Hairspray.
- An acoustic version featuring Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett was recorded and uploaded on DisneyMusicVevo's channel on YouTube.
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