Biography

Hudgens was born in Salinas, California, and lived all over the West Coast – from Oregon to Southern California – with her parents, Gina (née Guangco) and Gregory Hudgens and a sister, Stella Hudgens. Hudgens and her family moved to Los Angeles after she won a role in a television commercial. Hudgens's father is of Irish and Native American descent, and her mother, who grew up in Manila, is Filipina. Both sets of Hudgens' grandparents were musicians.

Starting at the age of eight, Hudgens performed in musical theater as a singer, and appeared in local productions of Carousel, The Wizard of Oz, The King and I, The Music Man, and Cinderella, among others. Hudgens was not able to finish her high school in Orange County High School of the Arts after being home schooled after her seventh year. After home school, she went to England and studied drama and music at Kingsbrook Business and Enterprise College and graduated college. She appears in Thirteen as Noel and in Thunderbirds. She guested in television shows such as Quintuplets, Still Standing, The Brothers García, Drake & Josh and The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

In early 2006, Hudgens's breakout role has been playing the fictional character Gabriella Montez in the Disney Channel movie series High School Musical. With this performance, Hudgens and co-star Zac Efron won the 2006 "Best Chemistry" award at the Teen Choice Awards for their roles. In the movie, she contributed five songs in the soundtrack. Hudgens established a music career under Hollywood Records, citing Celine Dion and Alicia Keys as her major musical influences. On September 2006, the release of her debut album entitled V, charted on the Billboard 200 at number twenty-four on the chart, with 34,000 copies sold that week, with "Come Back to Me" the first single, and the follow-up was "Say OK". V was certified Gold on February 27, 2007 and Billboard readers chose it as the seventh best album of the year. Hudgens was named Female Breakout Singer of the year at the 2007 Teen Choice Awards. She is also ambassador to Neutrogena products.

As promotion for the album, she was the opening act for The Cheetah Girls during their The Party's Just Begun Tour. Later on, she participated in the nationwide High School Musical: The Concert tour in fall 2006, performing the songs from the soundtrack album as well as the three songs from her debut album. She sang the duet "Still There For Me" with Corbin Bleu for his debut album. Hudgens also appeared on the High School Musical 2 soundtrack. In December 2007, she sang to the president, in the White House with other singers.

Her sophomore album, Identified, was released on July 1, 2008, selling more than 22,000 copies during the first week, debuting at #23 on the Billboard 200. At the same time, she went on the Identified Summer Tour to promote her albums in the U.S. and Mexico. She also performed at the 81st Academy Awards in a musical number with other young actors and singers.

Hudgens reprised her role as Gabriella in 2008's High School Musical 3: Senior Year and appeared on the movie's soundtrack. On January 11, 2008 it was announced that Hudgens would star in the comedy, Bandslam. Hudgens plays 15-year-old Sa5m (with the "5" described as "silent"), explained as an awkward outsider; the film will be theatrically released on August 14, 2009. Hudgens' upcoming projects include roles in Sucker Punch, which will release in 2011; she plays the role of Blondie. She will play Linda in the film adaptation of Beastly, which is scheduled for a 2010 release.

first_bad_habit

Turn it off turn it on
Let the vibrate on your phone
Call me up wanna talk
Then you freeze me
There's a saying when you're gone
Let me guessin what you want
But my heart says that you will complete me

At first in the Streams
And I should know what it means
But I can't get let game to be over
When your mood's never change
Only got myself to blame
Coz I fall for it over and over

You're like my first bad habit
I can't live without it
I can't give you up, give you up
And even though you're trouble
I commit to double
I can't say enough is enough
I'm a part of you, you're a part of me
And I know it's wrong but I can't get free
You're like my first bad habit
How am I gonna give you up

You're the worst, you're the best
Something different from the rest
It's a fact seeing used never easy
Love my style hang my friends
Though the conflict never end
How much worse can it get when you tease me

Wanna know wanna know
Wanna know wanna know
The way we go around
Can't put my first bad habit down
Wanna know wanna know
Wanna know wanna know
The way we go around
I just can't give you up

From http://www.lyricsmania.com/first_bad_habit_lyrics_vanessa_hudgens.html
You're like my first bad habit
I can't live without it
I can't give you up, give you up
And even though you're trouble
I commit to double
I can't say enough is enough
I'm a part of you, you're a part of me
And I know it's wrong but I can't get free
You're like my first bad habit
How am I gonna give you up

Turn it off turn it on
I'm guessing what you want
Turn it off turn it on
I'm guessing what you want

You're like my first bad habit
I can't live without it
I can't give you up, give you up
And even though you're trouble
I commit to double
I can't say enough is enough
I'm a part of you, you're a part of me
And you know it's wrong but I can't get free
You're like my first bad habit
How am I gonna give you up

last_night

Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na

All I want is to be a part o' your weekend
All I need is a little bit o' your time
Baby, I'm your girl and I need some attention
When you ignore me I just lose my mind

I ain't gon' bug about you going out last night
Though, baby I know that I'm the only one in your side
But please don't tell me nothin'

I don't wanna know what you did last night
I don't wanna hear that you had a good time
I don't wanna know ____ or lie
I don't wanna feel like I had to be there
I Don't wanna know about the other girls there
I Just wanna know when you're around you're mine

Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na


I don't think that I'm being obsessive
I don't think that I'm being out of line
You had your space and I get to be selfish
You get yours baby, and I get mine

I'm doing just fine as long as we see eye to eye (you with me?)
And no no, ain't nothing wrong with going out and having a good time
But I don't wanna know nothin'

I don't wanna know what you did last night
I don't wanna hear that you had a good time
I don't wanna know ____ or lie
I don't wanna feel like I had to be there
I don't wanna know about the other girls there
I Just wanna know when you're around you're mine

I can ___you, I'll meet someone new
Baby, got my mind gone wild
I know your love is true, but what's a girl to do
All I need is a sign (just give me a sign)
I get jealous, oh so jealous
Oh, I get jealous
Don't mess me up with whatever is down

I don't wanna know what you did last night (oh I know I don't know)
I don't wanna hear that you had a good time (I don't wanna hear about it)
I don't wanna know ____ or lie (whooo)
I don't wanna feel like I had to be there (don't wanna feel it)
I don't wanna know about the other girls there
I Just wanna know when you're around you're mine

Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na

Oh baby

Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na
Na na na na na na

right_here_right_now,,vanessa hudgens feat zac efron

Chorus
Both: Right Here, Right Now!
Troy: Oh, Right Now!
Gabriella: Lookin' At You, And My Heart Loves The View, Cause You Mean Everything!
Troy: Everything..
Both: Right Here, I Promise You Some how
Troy: That Tomorrow Can Wait,
Gabriella: Some Other Day To Be
Troy: To Be But Right Now
Both: There's You And Me.

Gabriella: Oh, We Know It's Comin'
Troy: Comin'
Gabriella: That It's Comin' Passed.
Both: But There's Always You and Me..
Gabriella: Oh yeah...
Troy: So, Lets Make This Second Last..
Both: Make It Last!

From http://www.lyricsmania.com/right_here_right_now_lyrics_vanessa_hudgens.html
Troy: Right Here.. Right Now.. Yeah, Im Lookin' At You..
Gabriella: And My Heart Loves The View..
Both: Cause You Mean Everything! Right Here, I Promise You Somehow.
Troy: That Tomorrow Can Wait,
Gabriella: Some Other Day To Be
Troy: To Be! But Right Now
Both: There's You And Me.

Gabriella: Oh, We Know It's Comin'
Troy: Comin'
Gabriella: That It's Comin' Passed.
Both: But There's Always You and Me..
Gabriella: Oh yeah...
Troy: So, Lets Make This Second Last..
Both: Make It Last!

Can I have dance... Vanessa hudgens feat zac efron

[Gabriella]
Take my hand, take a breath
Pull me close and take one step
Keep your eyes locked on mine,
And let the music be your guide.

[Troy, Gabriella]
Won't you promise me (now won't you promise me, that you'll never forget)
We'll keep dancing (to keep dancing) wherever we go next

(chorus)
It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you
It's one in a million, the chances of feeling the way we do
And with every step together, we just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance (can I have this dance)
Can I have this dance

[Troy]
Take my hand, I'll take the lead
And every turn will be safe with me
Don't be afraid, afraid to fall
You know I'll catch you threw it all

[Troy, Gabriella]
And you can't keep us apart (even a thousand miles, can't keep us apart)
'Cause my heart is (cause my heart is) wherever you are

From http://www.lyricsmania.com/can_i_have_this_dance_lyrics_vanessa_hudgens.html
(chorus)
It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you
It's one in a million, the chances of feeling the way we do
And with every step together, we just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance (can I have this dance)
Can I have this dance

[Gabriella And Troy]
Oh no mountains too high enough, oceans too wide
'Cause together or not, our dance won't stop
Let it rain, let it pour
What we have is worth fighting for
You know I believe, that we were meant to be

(chorus)
It's like catching lightning the chances of finding someone like you (like you)
It's one in a million, the chances of feeling the way we do (way we do)
And with every step together, we just keep on getting better
So can I have this dance (can I have this dance)
Can I have this dance

Can I have this dance
Can I have this dance

Friday, December 3, 2010

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Pacquiao For Progress

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Apologies for my extended absence and I hope to do better in the future but I couldn’t let this one go by without a word.



Anyone who has ever read my work will know where my sympathies extend regarding Pacquaio and Margarito. The two are basically the avatars – polarities – of my boxing worldview so I won’t pretend to offer much nuance or reasoned insight.



I want Pacquiao to give Marg’s a royal beating. Not in some moralistic sense, “the jolly Filipino damaging the cheating and surly Mexican,” though I won’t pretend there’s not some of that here.



No, Pacquiao to me has always represented physical inspiration – man as body-electric, that thin-wild-mercury.



I’ve perhaps been a little eager to overlook his obvious intelligence and refinement of craft; partially due to language issues and his outsized friendliness and good-nature but I make no apologies for that. He’s compelling to me because he’s so physical, joyous, and righteous in his movements. The loveliness and freedom and excitement that comes from seeing a human body so perfectly suited to its task.



In the same way it’s transfixing to watch a nature show featuring a bird of prey in descent, a leopard giving chase, or more apt in this context, a regal steed at the races – Secratariat powering down the tracks while onlookers weep in the stands; that’s what Pacquiao is to me. A human body honed and suited to its purpose. I can’t remark enough on what a rare and perfect thing that is, a true joy for us muddlers and tumblers lurching about in the muck; those of us for whom moments of completeness are so rare and profound in our own lives they are often only spoken of in a religious or drug-filtered context.



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Pacquiao represents a fullness of being that is rare and special, which I call inspiration. A gift from the void that only the select have and is a blessing and joy to watch.



And Margarito? Well, he’s something of the opposite. I’ve always found him unwatchable and unsympathetic, a rebuke to the way I try to justify and enjoy and filter the callous blood lust of this sport. For people like me it’s important to build narrative filters and deeper subtexts to the sport so that it goes beyond blood and bone and moves into history and manhood and craft and the unstoppable forward march of progress.



And Margarito brings all of that into question. A crude slugger, slow, impenetrable. He lacks class not in the sense that he’s a poor kid from Mexico, (Erik Morales, another poor kid from the same streets Margarito emerged from is also one of my talisman of regal overcoming,) but in the sense that he is a move away from boxing as sweet science and towards the crudity of sheer force and muscle. He’s a step away from progress and refinement.



I’ve used the quote many times before, but A.J. Liebling’s take always seems apt to me when speaking of Margarito, “If the animal could beat even a fair fighter, it meant that two hundred and fifty years of painfully acquired experience had been lost to the human race; science was a washout and art a vanity.”



Science a washout and art a vanity. That’s what’s on the line here. Some see it as a moral contest between the loathsome Margarito and the virtuous Pacquiao, but something far deeper is at stake; the narrative history of the sport and progress. The sanctity of class and worth.



True, Margarito will be a full 15-20 lbs larger, but Pacquiao has now taken over the mantle of genius, the surpassing quality of incandescent ability over and above the utility of force. Margarito is trying to queer the game, to turn it around and backwards; Pacquiao is the clever defender of the library facing the torch-wielders.



Of course the moral overlay is heavy and I won’t ignore it. Margarito is a cheater and just generally unlikable and slimy. The vicious pleasure of his loss will be undeniable.



But it’s secondary. Though I greatly admire Evander Holyfield, his worldview wherein the right-cross of the righteous is superior to that of the wicked is deeply flawed.



My own – deeply flawed – worldview can perhaps be framed by the Obama/King Jr/ Parker quote that, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” (The disappointing midterm elections being – of course – a reminder of the cutbacks in the bend)

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Only in my world, and in boxing, it bends towards class and beauty. Do you get it? Do you see what’s on the line. It’s much the same thing I felt when Manny fought Ricky Hatton, only with Margarito’s deeper textures of degradation and Pacquiao’s now inflated importance.



So, with the stakes being defined, am I nervous? Yes, a little. The customary pre-fight antics with a supposedly inferior Pacquiao training camp are unmoving to me, but the size difference is daunting. I can envision Pacquiao trapped against the ropes and damaged by a body shot, unable to appropriately respond and it fills me with dismay.



But I just can’t move beyond my respect for speed and skill. I mean, we’re talking about no less than the co-equal fastest fighter of his day against the slowest elite-level fighter in recent memory. That’s got to tell doesn’t it?



And more importantly I just keep feeling that bend towards justice, that bend towards the big happening. It doesn’t work the way it should, but Pacquiao is clearly meant for bigger things than to fall to a crude villain. Isn’t he? We need more answers than this will provide. Its important to boxing’s ragged march.



Of course that’s a construct, but it’s how I’m taking this one. I won’t hide that my lack of writing on boxing of late has been partially due to the fact that we’ve had a few dour months here. I haven’t liked it a bit and in lieu of real analysis sometimes I just think it’s important to filter ones hopes and pleasures as they come.



And so it is that I see my little Filipino muse standing victorious tonight, arms raised in joy at the surpassing pleasure of being a triumphant body, a genetic and evolutionary gift unsurpassed in his time and a step towards the inevitable victory of grace and science and art in the face of an otherwise directionless universe.



Pacquiao fighting!

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