--- title: Zac Efron Cant Remember High School Musical Song: Video description: In Cosmopolitan UK video Zac Efron fails to recognize the song Breaking Free that he sung in High School Musical canonical: https://time.com/4011448/zac-efron-high-school-musical-breaking-free/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-26T16:15:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:52.476Z og:title: Zac Efron Cant Remember High School Musical Song: Video og:description: In Cosmopolitan UK video Zac Efron fails to recognize the song Breaking Free that he sung in High School Musical og:url: https://time.com/4011448/zac-efron-high-school-musical-breaking-free/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Zac Efron Cant Remember High School Musical Song: Video twitter:description: In Cosmopolitan UK video Zac Efron fails to recognize the song Breaking Free that he sung in High School Musical twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Zac Efron Doesn't Even Recognize One of His Songs from _High School Musical_  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 26, 2015 4:15 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Aug 26, 2015 4:15 PM UTC During _Cosmopolitan UK_‘s interview with Zac Efron, Emily Ratajkowski and Max Joseph, who are promoting their upcoming film _We Are Your Friends,_ Efron fails to recognize “Breaking Free,” a song he sings with Vanessa Hudgens in the 2006 movie _High School Musical_. You know, that movie that made him famous? The interviewer tests their music trivia abilities by playing different hits and asking them to guess the name. And around the 1:07 mark, when the _High School Musical_ single comes on, Efron goes blank. Joseph makes the moment even more humiliating by asking the young star, “Is that your voice?” Here’s the full song: _We Are Your Friends_ comes out August 28. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4011448/zac-efron-high-school-musical-breaking-free/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4011448/zac-efron-high-school-musical-breaking-free/"},"headline":"Zac Efron Doesn't Even Recognize One of His Songs from High School Musical","datePublished":"2015-08-26T16:15:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:52.476Z","description":"Awkward","url":"https://time.com/4011448/zac-efron-high-school-musical-breaking-free/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4011448/zac-efron-high-school-musical-breaking-free/","name":"Zac Efron Doesn't Even Recognize One of His Songs from High School Musical"}}]}] ```