Speaker 1: Thank you everybody so much for joining us once again
Speaker 1: on this Park Copper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2: And we've got some Disney Royalty with us today.
Speaker 1: And I always know that every week, I'm like, this
Speaker 1: is a very special episode. But this is a very
Speaker 1: special episode because I knew this guy without knowing this
Speaker 1: guy as much as I should have known this guy.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: You gotta explain that meaning I knew who he was,
Speaker 3: but then I heard his voice on a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of stuff that I wasn't really aware that I was hearing.
Speaker 2: His voice on. Yes, So can you please help us?
Speaker 2: Welcome to the pod.
Speaker 4: Drew Sealing?
Speaker 5: What's up?
Speaker 2: I know?
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 5: You know? Living life? This is?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 5: Be fun to revisit whatever we're going to revisit.
Speaker 4: There's so many Where shall we start, mister geez?
Speaker 5: Just listening to Brandon Baker's podcast, and I don't know
Speaker 5: if I can top monkey biting your face off and
Speaker 5: sleeping with Jessica Alba.
Speaker 4: So we didn't start pretty big.
Speaker 6: We did start with the pretty big bang with that
Speaker 6: guy that he shocked the hell out of us with those.
Speaker 3: Stories entertaining Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I think we first of all, welcome,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on here. We talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, since we're we're kind of the podcast dedicated
Speaker 1: to the Channel, you are the Channel royalty, and so
Speaker 1: we need but.
Speaker 2: It's true we needed to have you on here.
Speaker 1: But I think we have to start with how do
Speaker 1: the two of you know each other so well?
Speaker 4: So well?
Speaker 6: Gosh, I don't even know if I can remember where
Speaker 6: it started, because so much of the stuff kind of
Speaker 6: happened all around the same couple of years. I know
Speaker 6: you were on the soundtrack of the fitness and dance videos.
Speaker 4: I did be you you yea, which I didn't.
Speaker 6: Know, and I'm sure you did. We're watching a movie
Speaker 6: and Will what was the movie that I went, Oh,
Speaker 6: my gosh, I'm listening to the soundtrack.
Speaker 4: I'm hearing a song. I'm going, why do I know
Speaker 4: that song? Wait? Why do I know movements to that song?
Speaker 4: And it was your song?
Speaker 5: It was Danielle Pannabiker in it.
Speaker 4: I don't written and weep there we go, thank you.
Speaker 5: Yes, I don't think I've ever seen the movie, and
Speaker 5: I don't think I even knew my song was going
Speaker 5: to be in the movie.
Speaker 6: So it's uh so I'm watching it and I'm going,
Speaker 6: how do I know this song? And I'm like, okay,
Speaker 6: that's true. And then I go, wait, I know movements
Speaker 6: and then I look it up and of course it
Speaker 6: is the song that was on the b U soundtrack.
Speaker 6: So that's how I knew choreography was the part.
Speaker 4: And that was just yes, and it was so cool.
Speaker 4: But it's in like one of her her scenes that.
Speaker 6: She's doing and she's being a celebrity, you know, and everything,
Speaker 6: and it was just so wild. And then Stuck in
Speaker 6: the Suburbs, of course, as soon as you get on
Speaker 6: the camera, I'm like, oh my gosh, not only is
Speaker 6: he doing the voice.
Speaker 5: Of this aby at that point, well that's actually Disney Lord.
Speaker 5: That is incorrect. I am not doing the voice in
Speaker 5: that movie.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 5: No. No. I actually wrote a song for Stuck in
Speaker 5: the Suburbs and submitted to the producers and they're like, no,
Speaker 5: we're gonna go with what did Teraryn kill him? Right? No?
Speaker 5: I believe he saying everything.
Speaker 6: And we interviewed him. He did not know you beat
Speaker 6: him out because you were out there with the guitar.
Speaker 5: There's another Disney ghost singer out there that nobody knows it.
Speaker 1: Was me, okay, I yeah, no, wow, but I was David,
Speaker 1: the desk clerk, which was fun.
Speaker 5: You were David, Yes, yeah, my big two lines that
Speaker 5: was my introduction to Disney really, that one and Campus Confidential,
Speaker 5: which is an ABC Family movie with Christy Carlson Romano
Speaker 5: is the same year and Brandon Baker, so that's how
Speaker 5: I know him.
Speaker 1: Wait, wait a second, I'm sorry that Stuck in the
Speaker 1: Suburbs your two lines on Stuck in the Suburbs.
Speaker 2: That was the first time you ever worked for the channel.
Speaker 5: I believe. So it was my first Disney movie, I believe. Yeah,
Speaker 5: before I had moved to California, so I was still
Speaker 5: living in Orlando at that point, I believe.
Speaker 4: Okay, so how.
Speaker 1: Did yeah, I guess we then should should ask how
Speaker 1: did your journey to it all happen?
Speaker 5: Yes, it happened through uh a wonderful producer and gentlemen,
Speaker 5: Ray Sham who's no longer with us, who wrote Gets
Speaker 5: Your Head in the Game for the original high School
Speaker 5: musical film when.
Speaker 4: I was grapower first Disney Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 5: And we wrote a song with Prima j for Cheetah
Speaker 5: Girls as well for Cheata girls too, amazing guy. I
Speaker 5: was signed to his production company as as an artist,
Speaker 5: like I moved out to La, you know, big dreams,
Speaker 5: just like trying to you know, make a living. I'm like,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna act, I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna do everything,
Speaker 5: which was mostly I'm gonna work at PF Shang's uh
Speaker 5: and Scoop hot Rice and just keep keep dreaming. But
Speaker 5: Ray took a chance on me and signed me to
Speaker 5: a deal and we were working on an EP for me,
Speaker 5: and then he'd one one weekend he was just happened
Speaker 5: to have like a little sidegig and he's like, hey,
Speaker 5: you want to help me write this song for this
Speaker 5: Disney dcom movie. So he brought me in to co
Speaker 5: write get Your Head in the Game. And neither one
Speaker 5: of us really, you know, thought that it was going
Speaker 5: to turn into anything, you know, more than a typical
Speaker 5: what you know whatever, like wrote it forgot about it
Speaker 5: and then yeah there you go.
Speaker 2: Dang, so you you sang it for the demo too.
Speaker 5: Then right right time, right place, Like when I was
Speaker 5: listening to Brandon's thing just talking about like how there's
Speaker 5: countless other great singers and actors, and he just happened
Speaker 5: to be in the right the right age, the right place,
Speaker 5: with the right skills. Like so much of this is luck,
Speaker 5: you know, And I just lucked into meeting the right
Speaker 5: people at the right time, and I was I was ready,
Speaker 5: and when they needed somebody to fill in those missing vocals,
Speaker 5: they knew I could do it and I was there
Speaker 5: and ready.
Speaker 2: So so yeah, no, wait, that's that's my question.
Speaker 1: So you write the song, do you then like sing
Speaker 1: the demo and record it and send it to Disney.
Speaker 1: It's it's your voice doing that, So it's you don't
Speaker 1: even know you're It's not even like an audition for you.
Speaker 2: You're just wrong.
Speaker 5: I did audition for high school musical too, actually, but
Speaker 5: I was a full I think I'm three or four
Speaker 5: years even older than Monique, so I think I like,
Speaker 5: age wise, I sort of aged myself out of the
Speaker 5: whole thing. And also Zach is a great actor. But
Speaker 5: since they you know, Kenny knew me from that and
Speaker 5: I'd submitted get your head in the game, they knew
Speaker 5: what my voice sounded like. Uh. I've told this story
Speaker 5: a few times. I've never I've never been given an
Speaker 5: explanation of why they kept my voice on the soundtrack,
Speaker 5: and I don't think zach was has ever been given
Speaker 5: that explanation of why they didn't, So it just sort
Speaker 5: of came out the way that it came out. And yeah,
Speaker 5: reporters started calling me. I was still working at PF.
Speaker 5: Chang's the first time High School Musical aired. I was
Speaker 5: watching it on the bar top monitors like telling people, Hey,
Speaker 5: that's my voice, and they're like, yeah, yeah, get me
Speaker 5: my rice. So yeah, it was. It was pretty crazy.
Speaker 5: It happened very suddenly. As I listened to Corbin's interview
Speaker 5: with you guys as well, and like everything, I echo
Speaker 5: everything he said. It was just like one day, you know,
Speaker 5: more so for those guys, But I did get to
Speaker 5: experience a little bit of that.
Speaker 6: Well, you had to have started the calls had to
Speaker 6: start coming in, right, I mean, you said Ray Champ,
Speaker 6: but you worked with Robbie Neville kind of quiet.
Speaker 4: Robby did, right.
Speaker 6: Robbie was a big so at that time, Will they
Speaker 6: had kind of like a a good, fairly small but
Speaker 6: a good group of producers that were just at that
Speaker 6: point doing the grind, putting, putting songs together. They were
Speaker 6: finding songs for d coms, more so than they were
Speaker 6: writing them. I mean, I feel like our songs for
Speaker 6: the Cheetah Girls were all just previously submitted songs, and
Speaker 6: then the second one was when they really started, especially
Speaker 6: I think probably with Kenny's you know, influence of making
Speaker 6: the songs actually fit what was exactly.
Speaker 4: Happening in the movie.
Speaker 6: And so Robbie Neville, I know you were on a
Speaker 6: bunch of hit because I would always we would always
Speaker 6: go in with these producers and we'd hear all these
Speaker 6: different you know, demos, and you were on I mean,
Speaker 6: I feel like you were just everywhere at that point.
Speaker 5: I have Steve Vincent to thank for that, Like he
Speaker 5: would just like plug me into like every you know
Speaker 5: thing that was happening, and Ray and Greg cham like, yeah,
Speaker 5: there was like a three or four year period there
Speaker 5: where I think I just thought that that was kind
Speaker 5: of normal. I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna be on disney
Speaker 5: Mania four, five, six, seven and eight, like right. But
Speaker 5: also like I didn't have a show on Disney, so
Speaker 5: I wasn't like some of these other stars that are
Speaker 5: singing songs on those albums, Like I just sort of
Speaker 5: snuck in the side door. I stayed there for a while.
Speaker 6: Do you have any songs that you might have wrote
Speaker 6: that you didn't actually sing, but you wrote for either
Speaker 6: other Disney artists or any other d coms that, like
Speaker 6: people would might maybe be surprised to hear.
Speaker 5: I wrote a song for Austin and Ali called who
Speaker 5: You Are that I liked. That song got a lot
Speaker 5: of from from Cheta Girls too, Prima.
Speaker 4: Jay, didn't you do dance with me?
Speaker 5: I did not write to dance with me? But yeah,
Speaker 5: but you did? Think that was my very first single
Speaker 5: and music video. And I believe that was like even
Speaker 5: before High School Musical, like that was that was the.
Speaker 6: High School Musical came out right before we started filming it.
Speaker 4: This second, Yeah, gotcha.
Speaker 2: I'm still I'm sorry, I'm trying to wrap my head
Speaker 2: around this. I'm still I'm so confused.
Speaker 1: Did you when High School Musical aired? Had you been
Speaker 1: told that your voice was on it? Or okay, so
Speaker 1: you knew okay, you knew you And.
Speaker 5: I also wasn't like umpetting it from the rooftops, like
Speaker 5: I was never told like you can't talk about this.
Speaker 5: But also I was just like, yeah, this is my contribution.
Speaker 2: You know though, that's a classy way to do it.
Speaker 5: But then somebody, somebody from the Hollywood Reporter found out
Speaker 5: and called my manager and said, wait a minute, who's
Speaker 5: Drew Seeley. You know, because my name was listed on
Speaker 5: the credits on the album or on the not pre
Speaker 5: Spotify iTunes whatever. So yeah, I mean it just kind
Speaker 5: of came out, and then once people knew that, it
Speaker 5: sort of snowballed into some other opportunities. And yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: Disney has been good to me over the years. I
Speaker 5: got to I got to do Prince eric On in
Speaker 5: The Little Mermaid on Broadway. Yeah, shortly after that, all
Speaker 5: because of that, and then the the High School Musical, uh,
Speaker 5: South America and North American tours with all the.
Speaker 4: Cast, all those tours. That's right, I remember that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but please tell me you're not still working
Speaker 1: at PF. Chang's at the time you're doing all these
Speaker 1: these tours.
Speaker 5: No, I quit that. I quit that.
Speaker 6: If you've got writing credit on got to get your
Speaker 6: head in the game.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the gift that keeps on giving. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I would, I would think.
Speaker 6: So those rots are still locking in because that is
Speaker 6: definitely my favorite song from that that first movie. So
Speaker 6: it's just down the life of that I love all
Speaker 6: in this together. I know that's a fan favorite, but
Speaker 6: mine was get your ahead in the game for sure.
Speaker 6: And it's not just because I love you. It's literally
Speaker 6: the best song on the movie.
Speaker 5: And I finally did get to learn all the choreography
Speaker 5: and like do everything from the film on the tour,
Speaker 5: which was fun because live on stage every night there
Speaker 5: was basketball as like hitting people in the front.
Speaker 3: Row, Like, oh god, no, you don't get it every time,
Speaker 3: no way.
Speaker 5: So I got to live my life vicariously that way.
Speaker 2: Yes, when did you get to meet the cast? I mean,
Speaker 2: did you? Did you get a chance to meet with everybody?
Speaker 5: And again I was. I was never told why they
Speaker 5: did it the way that they did it, but I
Speaker 5: think that they were within about read four weeks of
Speaker 5: shooting the actual film and they had me and not Zach,
Speaker 5: me and the rest of the movie cast all go
Speaker 5: into the studio for like four days straight and record
Speaker 5: all the songs together. So yeah, I knew that I
Speaker 5: was doing that, okay, but not why.
Speaker 6: But but yeah, was that awkward with the Like did
Speaker 6: they ask I hit.
Speaker 5: It off with those? I hit it off with them.
Speaker 5: They were there's they were so lovely and I.
Speaker 6: Still what's going on?
Speaker 5: I feel hard to remember. I'm sure they did. They're
Speaker 5: probably like, who is this guy?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I like, does anyone else notice that I supposed to
Speaker 6: be here and he's not?
Speaker 5: I do think. I do think Vanessa resented it a
Speaker 5: little bit when I was on tour, because she was like,
Speaker 5: I want to sink to my boyfriend every night, not
Speaker 5: this guy. I didn't feel a little of that.
Speaker 4: Okay, I can understand that.
Speaker 5: For sure, but yeah, it was. It was so much fun.
Speaker 5: And Lucas and Corbyn and I still talk pretty frequently
Speaker 5: in mon.
Speaker 6: I bet they're both so awesome. And Monique just had
Speaker 6: a birthday. I mean she she's just such a beautiful person,
Speaker 6: so fun. I got to tour with her for a
Speaker 6: hot second. We both run the Dancing Star store. Yeah,
Speaker 6: and that's when I met Lucas and I met Lucas's
Speaker 6: sister who used to travel around with Monique quite a bit.
Speaker 6: So everyone was a very tight knit group. It was
Speaker 6: super cool, such a small world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just did. I did Jersey Boys and Kinky
Speaker 5: Boots with Mark Ballas in the last few years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, absolutely, that is very cool.
Speaker 1: So what I mean. High school musical comes out, it's
Speaker 1: a ridiculous smash hit.
Speaker 2: And then you go on the tour.
Speaker 1: What is your response like when you know you're on
Speaker 1: stage every night singing for people.
Speaker 5: Well, I really uh, they kind of did me dirty
Speaker 5: there because I had to open the show. So there
Speaker 5: it was a I don't know if either of you
Speaker 5: saw it, but there was a backlit stage right so
Speaker 5: you'd see a shadow walking up, living in my own world,
Speaker 5: walking up the shadow shadow guy, and then the lights
Speaker 5: hit me and the audience is always like ah, silence,
Speaker 5: And I had to sing half of that song alone
Speaker 5: until Vanessa came on. So I sort of had to
Speaker 5: like reprove myself and resell myself every night. And there
Speaker 5: was like that initial lyell and then like the pullback
Speaker 5: and then people were like, okay, well we're here.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It was tough, man.
Speaker 4: They could have helped you out with like and here
Speaker 4: comes truthy. They could have said it up. They gave
Speaker 4: me a better.
Speaker 5: They did give me my own little like section later
Speaker 5: on in the show where I got to do dance
Speaker 5: with me and some other stuff, but the beginning was hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that is tough.
Speaker 6: That is tough, especially because kids just don't get I mean,
Speaker 6: like talk talk about the age demo of who you
Speaker 6: were really getting a chance to perform. I mean I
Speaker 6: loved our age demo that the Channel brings to what
Speaker 6: a concert is, you know, and so they don't really
Speaker 6: get that's not something that they understand, you know, whether
Speaker 6: or not they had heard that those were Zach's vocals
Speaker 6: or not.
Speaker 5: I think there was a lot of confusion too though,
Speaker 5: because they were like, but it sounds just like.
Speaker 2: The right, that's the thing is. It's like, wait, that's it,
Speaker 2: that's the voice, So something's not mixing.
Speaker 5: I'm just grateful. Yeah, whenever Zach was busy doing something,
Speaker 5: I was the filling. I was just like the go
Speaker 5: to guy. So I owned that as long as they
Speaker 5: led me. It was really fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's amazing.
Speaker 1: So you're on tour, you're going you're going around, you're
Speaker 1: singing all this stuff. Did you ever think that the
Speaker 1: Channel was going to come back and be like, look,
Speaker 1: you're doing so much for us. We got to get
Speaker 1: your movie, we're gonna get your show, We're going to
Speaker 1: get you something.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, in all honesty, yeah, Like there's always
Speaker 5: that I think I don't know if I painted myself
Speaker 5: into a box as a singer or if that was
Speaker 5: just sort of how I was viewed, maybe because they
Speaker 5: they they were quick to call when there was an album,
Speaker 5: you know, release, or like the songs for something. But yeah,
Speaker 5: I mean, I've been an actor in my whole life too,
Speaker 5: and I was auditioning for all of these things. And
Speaker 5: I got really close on camp Rock too with a
Speaker 5: couple other guys, like tested for it with Kenny and
Speaker 5: did the whole day audition like you do. And then
Speaker 5: I believe instead of it was going to be a one,
Speaker 5: one guy role, and then they decided to turn that
Speaker 5: role into the Jonas brothers.
Speaker 2: Ah, you're good, but you can't play all three of
Speaker 2: the Jonas.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't compete with three brothers.
Speaker 4: That is.
Speaker 5: You know. They did bring me in for their Broadway show,
Speaker 5: which was awesome, but yeah, I would have loved to,
Speaker 5: you know, play play something on one of their shows.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm still around. You know, I could be
Speaker 5: a coach. I could be a dad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are you living that dad?
Speaker 3: Live?
Speaker 4: You love it?
Speaker 5: I am. I've got a beautiful five year old yeah,
Speaker 5: I yeah, Wow, my life I.
Speaker 2: Just That's amazing to me.
Speaker 1: Now, So were you a Disney and Disney Channel fan
Speaker 1: before all this stuff happened?
Speaker 5: Uh? Well, I was, like I was twenty four when
Speaker 5: High School Movival came out, so you know, it wasn't
Speaker 5: what I watched on my downtime, but I but I
Speaker 5: I was a fan of you know. I grew up
Speaker 5: in Orlando too, so like Disney was Yeah, my was
Speaker 5: my life from like fourteen to twenty two, twenty three
Speaker 5: when I moved back to La So yeah, I've loved
Speaker 5: Disney forever. But you know, usually I gravitate tour like
Speaker 5: the classic Disney films, you know, like Lion King, a
Speaker 5: Little Mermaid, Like, yeah, all the music from that kind
Speaker 5: of era is like what really like gets me in
Speaker 5: the heartstrings? You know? Yeah? So were you?
Speaker 1: I mean if you had to pick at the time
Speaker 1: when you were starting your career, if somebody said to
Speaker 1: you what are you? Would you have said, I'm an actor,
Speaker 1: I'm a singer. Would you have said I'm an entertainer?
Speaker 5: Like I still have trouble answering that question, Like I
Speaker 5: find like where they intersect is like where I thrive
Speaker 5: and where the best experiences I've had in my career
Speaker 5: I've come from. I did this movie called Love Struck
Speaker 5: Deborah Martin Chase produced randomly hm, but that was yeah, singing, dancing, acting,
Speaker 5: all the Broadways, the Broadway stuff. Yeah. I even did
Speaker 5: a Christmas movie a couple of years ago called Christmas
Speaker 5: Movie Magic that ended with like a big Freda Staire
Speaker 5: Ginger Rogers dance number the snow while singing. So like,
Speaker 5: I still get sent those kind of scripts, and that's
Speaker 5: kind of what I love doing. So so huge. You're
Speaker 5: Hugh Jackman, that is that is like he's one of
Speaker 5: my ultimate idols. Yeah, like that's the girl.
Speaker 4: I love that connection. Yes, I am here for that.
Speaker 4: That's amazing.
Speaker 5: That's awesome. Yeah, I guess I gotta start working out. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you did get.
Speaker 6: A chance to do all three right in the movie
Speaker 6: you did with Selena Gomez, The Another Cinderella Story. We
Speaker 6: did get to see your triple threat action happening there.
Speaker 6: What was it like working with Selena?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't want to think that like I peaked there,
Speaker 5: but I feel like that was like the pinnacle of
Speaker 5: like what I like to do, you know, singing, dancing, acting,
Speaker 5: and I also wrote all the music from the film,
Speaker 5: so I got.
Speaker 4: To Oh my god, I got to be.
Speaker 5: The creative on that side of it. Co wrote, I'm
Speaker 5: not going to take entire credit, but yeah Wow, because
Speaker 5: I used to because I was in a boy band
Speaker 5: in high school, like in real life back in Orlando.
Speaker 5: So I had all those like boy band melodies in
Speaker 5: my head, and when they were working on the music,
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, I'm the pop star in
Speaker 5: this movie. Let me let me contribute and do that.
Speaker 5: And they did Yeah wowand new Ground.
Speaker 4: With a you and you and you ground Okay, Okay, we're.
Speaker 5: Trying to be in sync meets Jodasy was like our
Speaker 5: log line.
Speaker 4: Okay, and did you have as as in sync? Did?
Speaker 4: They all kind of had looks if you will? Were you?
Speaker 2: I was?
Speaker 5: I was the blonde frosted tip one. Okay, but it
Speaker 5: was it was like it was a multicultural band. We
Speaker 5: we wrapped. It was a little more like urban for
Speaker 5: lack of a better word, than in sync and Backstreet
Speaker 5: Boys were trying to do and we weren't signed to
Speaker 5: trans connor with. We were sort of like the the
Speaker 5: underdog group. Okay, but I did it for three years.
Speaker 5: We released an album independently and toured the Southeast and
Speaker 5: it was really fun. It was sort of school in
Speaker 5: learning how to sing and harmonize and really read the
Speaker 5: kind of music that I have been since.
Speaker 4: So wow, I did not know that it's.
Speaker 5: Pretty embarrassing black pleather pants.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about en G.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it's out there on the interwebs.
Speaker 4: Okay, they see it. I see it.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy. I have to ask because I've asked
Speaker 1: other people this and they all give kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting answer because they're all kind of around.
Speaker 2: The same area. How does one write a.
Speaker 6: Song a man?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: I think everyone comes to it differently depending on what
Speaker 5: their instrument is. Right For me, I I don't. I
Speaker 5: can write songs just on a guitar by myself, but
Speaker 5: I much prefer collaborating, you know, so a lot of
Speaker 5: times I'll be the lyric and top line guy, and
Speaker 5: then I'll work with the producer and hash it out
Speaker 5: that way. But lyrics never come first for me. It's
Speaker 5: always melky like. If I'm listening to a song, I'll
Speaker 5: I'll go for a run, I'll do something physical where
Speaker 5: I get out of my head and I'll just hum
Speaker 5: melodies into my phone. And then I'll listen back later
Speaker 5: and I'll be like, oh, yep, that's the chorus. Yep,
Speaker 5: that could be a verse. And then I work backwards
Speaker 5: and find like phrases and things that fit into it,
Speaker 5: and sort of like that's my method anyway. It's sort
Speaker 5: of organically comes together quicker than if I try to
Speaker 5: like force a this is what it has to be about.
Speaker 4: Right, you know?
Speaker 5: Wow, unless I get it, unless I get a brief
Speaker 5: from Disney that says you're a you're an octopus who
Speaker 5: just brobbed a bank, and you're you know, like some
Speaker 5: kind of you know, because those come through with those
Speaker 5: animated shows, And then like you got to be very
Speaker 5: specific with that.
Speaker 6: Right, yes, And do you find I was gonna say,
Speaker 6: do you find that to be a little bit more
Speaker 6: difficult because you're you are not in like a super
Speaker 6: open space, You're kind of more in a specific fig zone.
Speaker 5: I find it'd be easier. I like working within a framework.
Speaker 5: It's sort of a narrows the monkey brain in and
Speaker 5: it's like, okay, like here's here's what you can choose from.
Speaker 4: That's cool, that's cool.
Speaker 5: I do like those I'm doing a lot more of
Speaker 5: that nowadays. I'm just trying to do something that my
Speaker 5: daughter now will think is cool, you know, because she's not.
Speaker 5: She doesn't watch any of this dcom stuff from twenty
Speaker 5: years ago. Yeah, if I can write some songs on
Speaker 5: one of the shows she's obsessed with.
Speaker 6: You gotta get yourself on some Disney Plus with her
Speaker 6: and she might be super stoked about it. It is
Speaker 6: making a comeback like nothing other. Have you felt the
Speaker 6: wave of nostalgia that has swept with Disney Plus now
Speaker 6: airing all the d coms that used to be just
Speaker 6: on the channel. Are you feeling that that nostalgia.
Speaker 5: But a little bit. Yeah, everything comes back around, and
Speaker 5: yes it's open to a new generation, which is which
Speaker 5: is cool. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well you know what I hope comes back around
Speaker 1: is she's gonna run by new ground.
Speaker 5: Hey you found something.
Speaker 2: We're looking we're looking at.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the YouTube video right here and the
Speaker 1: picture right here.
Speaker 5: I have no regrets, should you?
Speaker 4: Guys? Regrets? Awesome?
Speaker 1: When you were growing up, who were kind of some
Speaker 1: of your musical influences?
Speaker 2: I mean, where did you really find your love of music?
Speaker 5: That's good boys to men, baby bassed John b like
Speaker 5: like early Uh yeah, that that kind of era of
Speaker 5: stuff is like what I really gravitated toward. Also, uh,
Speaker 5: Smashing Pumpkins, sound Garden. They're going on like like I was,
Speaker 5: I was equal parts nineties grunge and like early two
Speaker 5: thousand's R and B and neo soul too, like like
Speaker 5: Lauren Hill Music soul child. I just saw him in
Speaker 5: la like six months ago. It was a great show.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so and yeah and then show twos, So who
Speaker 5: am I? Yeah?
Speaker 4: You're well rounded. That's what's cool.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's what obviously is amazing for Disney to
Speaker 6: be able to come to you, and that's where you're
Speaker 6: able to pull from all of their different genres that
Speaker 6: you like to be able to give Disney, You're an octopus, Like.
Speaker 5: You're able to do that.
Speaker 1: What's going to rhyme with bank robbery and octopus? Like
Speaker 1: I'm still I still have that character in my head,
Speaker 1: like sabbery.
Speaker 6: All right, Well, we obviously can't let this interview go
Speaker 6: by without bringing up One Tree Hill, which is another iconic.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, we hit it all.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, obviously another iconic TV show with rabid fans.
Speaker 6: And I gotta know, this is the question who would
Speaker 6: you say were the most passionate fans, your HSM fans
Speaker 6: or your One Tree Hill fans.
Speaker 5: My personally, my most passionate fans were my Another Currella
Speaker 5: Story fans, because that's what people see me on screen
Speaker 5: and like know that I'm a part of high school musical.
Speaker 5: I'm sort of been tangentially involved in One Tree Hill.
Speaker 5: I was on two episodes and one of them I
Speaker 5: was edited out of completely.
Speaker 4: So oh, no, no way.
Speaker 5: I do One Tree Hill conventions because they'll have me
Speaker 5: and they're fun. Yeah, but a lot of times people
Speaker 5: will show up and know me from other things, but
Speaker 5: they'll be like you were in One Tree Hill, Like what,
Speaker 5: I gotta go back and watch this, so sort of
Speaker 5: a blink and you'll miss me situation.
Speaker 6: I feel like you see it a lot when you
Speaker 6: look up what you've done in your resume and everything.
Speaker 4: So that's shocking. I didn't know it was only one episode.
Speaker 4: It made it seem like you were on for like.
Speaker 5: A sea I've I've milked it.
Speaker 4: Yes, nice? Why not?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I was in Wilmington about a month ago and
Speaker 5: played in a charity basketball game with all the cast
Speaker 5: members and for the twentieth anniversary or maybe.
Speaker 6: Well was that like it was great after so long?
Speaker 5: The fans are rabbit. Well most of the cast too,
Speaker 5: are like, who are you? What season.
Speaker 4: Was my boy?
Speaker 5: Yes? Yes, ye, he's a he's a he just yeah
Speaker 5: he just had a kid too, didn't he.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was a good dude, terrific guy, terrific guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah. You know, I've just been kicking around the block
Speaker 5: and lots of different different places. So One Tree Hill
Speaker 5: was was a very fun Dawson's Creek was right before that,
Speaker 5: and that's actually what got me my like sag card
Speaker 5: and how I became a professional actor. Oh really, so
Speaker 5: One Tree Hill was my second job right after that. Okay,
Speaker 5: but uh yeah I'm not I'm not just like Corbyn.
Speaker 5: I'm not a very good basketball player. A lot of faking.
Speaker 2: It to play basketball.
Speaker 5: Ye, between that and get your head in the game,
Speaker 5: it's like, it's I gotta learn, it's I have to.
Speaker 6: That just seemed when he said that I was I
Speaker 6: didn't even believe it for a second. I thought he
Speaker 6: was completely just trying to Now you telling me you
Speaker 6: can't really jump rope, which you also did a song
Speaker 6: in that movie jump in I'm ready you also did
Speaker 6: a song in that movie, him telling me I wasn't
Speaker 6: a great like I'm not actually a great double dutcher, Like, okay,
Speaker 6: I could probably you know that that's got to be hard,
Speaker 6: and not that basketball is not hard, but it just
Speaker 6: he did not seem like he wasn't.
Speaker 4: A good one at all. That was that was so weird, strange, strange.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: I hate I hate to do this to you because
Speaker 1: I know it's like picking between your children.
Speaker 2: But what's your favorite song you've ever written?
Speaker 5: Oh? Man, that's a that's a really hard question. Probably.
Speaker 5: I released my own album in twenty ten called The Resolution,
Speaker 5: and Uh, as much as I love all my Disney stuff,
Speaker 5: there's a couple of songs on there that I like,
Speaker 5: accept in speech and why can't you say that your mind?
Speaker 5: I would, I would say, go check out some of
Speaker 5: that music to see the other side of me. Uh yeah,
Speaker 5: But yeah, man, that's really hard. I know that's a no.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: That was a great answer, because it's got to be
Speaker 1: what's personal to you, So I you know that.
Speaker 5: I think New Classic was a really fun one because
Speaker 5: that really like, yeah, I got to you know. It
Speaker 5: was in the film and I got to do a
Speaker 5: music video for it afterwards, and it was a duet
Speaker 5: with Selena Gomez. Like, how many people get to say
Speaker 5: they got to do that?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I'm always gonna have that on my resus
Speaker 5: on my business.
Speaker 4: You got you got to plate frame, you.
Speaker 1: Got to do you got to do it with Selena
Speaker 1: Gomez And just being able to say that is kind
Speaker 1: of the coolest thing. Yeah, okay, So another question, then,
Speaker 1: you've been doing this for so long and you've been
Speaker 1: doing it with the Channel, have you in your mind
Speaker 1: come up with your own musical that you've wanted to
Speaker 1: do for Disney?
Speaker 6: That's a good and tell me why it would be
Speaker 6: a Christmas movie?
Speaker 5: How do the all these funny things come together? The dance,
Speaker 5: there's there's downhill skiing who I don't know know. I'm
Speaker 5: Canadian originally, so maybe some angle of that. Yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 5: I I I've been I'm gonna think on that.
Speaker 2: I was running. If you're like, no, I got don't.
Speaker 5: Have ready to go yet.
Speaker 6: But hey, once you get that, you did absolutely contact
Speaker 6: Disney did.
Speaker 5: Write I did write a Getting the Band Back Together
Speaker 5: boy band comedy script. Okay, based on that experience of
Speaker 5: my new Ground experience, but it was a little more raunchy,
Speaker 5: so I'd have to I'd have to bring it to
Speaker 5: Disney disneyfy yeah, yeah, but that could be funny. You know.
Speaker 5: I don't know if I've seen that on the channel specifically. Yeah,
Speaker 5: very funny.
Speaker 4: Amazing.
Speaker 1: Oh man, okay, well I have so fun guys. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: this has been amazing and we we I have. I
Speaker 1: have one final question for you here. I know that
Speaker 1: you came later to to Disney Channel because you're a
Speaker 1: little older, but when you were growing up, what was
Speaker 1: your favorite Disney movie.
Speaker 5: Growing up? Probably? Yeah, probably The Lion King or The
Speaker 5: Little Mermaid beating the Beast. That just yeah, that era,
Speaker 5: that was That was it? Yeah.
Speaker 6: That is one of my favorite parts of my daughter,
Speaker 6: who's four now falling in love with Disney is I
Speaker 6: don't mind that The Little Mermaid is on.
Speaker 4: Three times a day.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite one.
Speaker 6: Of my favorite parts of being a mom to a
Speaker 6: little kid that is also a Disney kid, and I
Speaker 6: just those movies I could watch over and over again.
Speaker 6: I did when I was little, and I am fine
Speaker 6: doing it again as an adult, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: So fun seeing them being reimagined now too, like live
Speaker 5: action and just updated. Yes, yes, because the music is
Speaker 5: still amazing, you know, timeless.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm sorry, I do have another question. I apologize.
Speaker 2: You want to keep you, We want to keep you
Speaker 2: on forever.
Speaker 1: What if you could take one part in anything Disney?
Speaker 1: What would what would you want to play? Because I mean,
Speaker 1: like Eric, and you know Prince Eric is amazing.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, but I.
Speaker 1: Mean you can you can have any role, any Disney
Speaker 1: role you want.
Speaker 5: What do you do? Hm? Hmm is Hamilton Disney because
Speaker 5: it's on Disney Place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that'll count.
Speaker 5: That'll count. Kind of the King at some point. I've
Speaker 5: always loved I always think that would be really a
Speaker 5: lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Oh that's that's a great answer. Oh man, Well, thank
Speaker 2: you so much for joining.
Speaker 4: Seeing you again.
Speaker 5: Wow, yeah, this is so fun.
Speaker 4: It's been years.
Speaker 1: Do you have any uh any We're going to go
Speaker 1: check out obviously new Ground and all the other stuff
Speaker 1: you're doing, but do you have any uh any.
Speaker 2: New music we could listen to? Any stuff?
Speaker 5: Uh? Yeah, I'm constantly putting stuff out on my my
Speaker 5: own Spotify, you know, as an artist, and then pitching
Speaker 5: songs and writing songs for different shows. I just I
Speaker 5: have a new song on the the Disney Junior iron
Speaker 5: Man show that's coming up. So yeah, here and there,
Speaker 5: my name, my name is kicking around. But uh yeah,
Speaker 5: mostly the last couple of years, I've been more focused
Speaker 5: on family life. You know, my my daughter's five. Sure
Speaker 5: times going so fast as you as you are aware too,
Speaker 5: I'm sure Sabrina is just like, yeah, I want to
Speaker 5: be here and be president. I miss any of it.
Speaker 5: So doing a little less professionally but feeling good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 4: I love that. Where can we Where can we stay
Speaker 4: updated with all your stuff? You said Spotify? Yes, on Instagram?
Speaker 5: Instagram?
Speaker 4: What's your handle on YouTube?
Speaker 5: Is just my name just Andrew Seely, So that's probably
Speaker 5: the best place.
Speaker 2: And sorry, tell me you're tell me the album you
Speaker 2: did in twenty ten.
Speaker 1: One more time.
Speaker 5: So I want to called the Resolution, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2: I want to listen to those songs.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really a pleasure talking to you guys.
Speaker 4: You as well.
Speaker 2: I hope you don't mind. We're going to have you
Speaker 2: back at some point. So we got a lot looking.
Speaker 5: Forward, took about sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Drew, Bye guys, Bye, yeah. I mean, well
Speaker 1: you're you're one, so I mean, you're a triple threat.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't imagine having that much talent where it's
Speaker 1: just like I'm gonna sing, I'm gonna dance, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: write a song, I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's he oozes.
Speaker 4: It, he oozes talent he has.
Speaker 6: I mean, I like, even on the Channel, he didn't
Speaker 6: even get as much as they did use him for
Speaker 6: so much they like he said, they sort of it
Speaker 6: seemed like pinhold him into just being a music artist
Speaker 6: and head him.
Speaker 2: A little dirty, a little bit because.
Speaker 4: Hainey bit I would say.
Speaker 6: I mean, I just don't think they necessarily used him
Speaker 6: as much as they could have in the sense of,
Speaker 6: you know, but you got to think too, I mean,
Speaker 6: he looked so much like maybe not now when you
Speaker 6: just saw him, but when he was younger, he definitely
Speaker 6: had that same look of the of the zach Effron
Speaker 6: and yeah, and so that might.
Speaker 4: Have been what it is. But he he was a
Speaker 4: great actor, a great dancer.
Speaker 6: Like there's just so much he had so much talent
Speaker 6: at that time that I don't think that they tapped
Speaker 6: into all of it, you know.
Speaker 1: And it's also but just with I mean, how his
Speaker 1: age now, he's age and talent, he's perfect musical Disney dad.
Speaker 4: Oh first, how do you cast that.
Speaker 1: Guy first in some huge thing and then go cast
Speaker 1: this kid? I mean, how is that guy not in
Speaker 1: in the you know, any of the zombie movies or
Speaker 1: any of the stuff we've seen before.
Speaker 6: Totally there's still time though, well, I mean, like he said,
Speaker 6: he's it sounds like he's you know, and I can
Speaker 6: I can appreciate it because I definitely did that when
Speaker 6: I first had Monroe, and this was my first opportunity
Speaker 6: to really jump back and feel like I'm back in
Speaker 6: the industry in some sort of taking the time and
Speaker 6: just kind of wanting to be a dad.
Speaker 4: Because his life, as you can see, I mean, he
Speaker 4: was going on the tours, he was getting put into
Speaker 4: different things. They were pulling at him.
Speaker 6: They just didn't put him in like a you know,
Speaker 6: starring you know, and and taking him into the world
Speaker 6: and the next TV shows in that next level. But
Speaker 6: he was working for at least a decade and a
Speaker 6: half NonStop, you know, And so I love that he's
Speaker 6: he's done that with his daughter and had that time
Speaker 6: and you know, I doubt that's the last we're going
Speaker 6: to see.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hopefully, Yeah in one of the one of the
Speaker 1: kind of Descendants movies or something coming out. How do
Speaker 1: you not make that guy one of the princes And
Speaker 1: it's like he's the dad of whoever?
Speaker 2: I mean, my god, Yeah, it's perfect, he's perfect.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, thank you Drew Silly for joining us,
Speaker 1: and thank you everybody for joining us for our Park
Speaker 1: Copper episode.
Speaker 4: What cool.
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk to him for a while, so
Speaker 1: that was that was really neat, just to kind of
Speaker 1: hear a different career Disney wise, right, Yeah, And.
Speaker 6: It was interesting to see that he said they were
Speaker 6: we're trying to find this this timeline of what happened
Speaker 6: with the first high School Musical. It seems like they
Speaker 6: must have been rehearsing or at least filming a little
Speaker 6: bit before and then they pulled them to record, so
Speaker 6: we know that they were pulled. It wasn't initially done
Speaker 6: before anything.
Speaker 1: So that's because I don't think anybody knew what the
Speaker 1: hell high School Musical was going to be until.
Speaker 2: It it was, and then it was wow explosion exactly.
Speaker 4: We keep getting more and more info on that and
Speaker 4: that's so cool.
Speaker 5: Oh I love that.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: As we get the info, we're of course going to
Speaker 1: keep giving it to you. So thank you everybody for
Speaker 1: joining us, and uh yeah, we'll see you over on
Speaker 1: our other feed. As we keep watching some movies, some
Speaker 1: lately have been amazing, some haven't not so much.
Speaker 6: But not one with Drew Sealey, I'll tell you that
Speaker 6: they've all been great.
Speaker 2: You get Drew in there, you got a good film.
Speaker 2: So thanks everybody for joining us, and we will see
Speaker 2: you next time.
Speaker 4: Bye bye