- Six- - Seven, eight.
(upbeat music)
♪ One, two, three ♪
(upbeat music)
- Charlie and I wrote a song called "Perfect Harmony".
I'm a little nervous, you know.
I had told Kenny that I was thinking about writing a song
for the dance sequence.
It could be a Gabriela and Troy moment
on the rooftop from "High School Musical".
And Charlie was just like,
"Yeah, yeah, let's do it. Let's do it!"
Kenny has influenced us so much
that we wanted to write something that pays homage to him.
- When we had time,
we'd like rush over with like my acoustic guitar.
- As soon as we found our chords
and how we wanted it to sound,
we started adding the lyrics.
♪ Moved into the city ♪
♪ Stressed like a time I've never seen ♪
Right around the time when we started filming
"The Other Side of Hollywood",
I had like started coming to visit.
So we were just like, we have to show him that
because this is the perfect moment.
- By the time we presented the song to Kenny,
it had been worked through for weeks,
brought him up the stairs all the way to the back room.
And we were like, Kenny, we wanna show you something.
♪ Perfect harmony, the perfect harmony ♪
- Kenny's initial reaction to us showing him this song was,
"Did you guys find this online?
"Like, this is a really good song."
- He thought it was like a Sean Mendes cover
or like Camila Cabello or something like that.
- Him saying like, "Okay, I want this in the show"
and us looking back at each other like,
oh, it's actually happening.
♪ Perfect harmony ♪
- The moment that the song is gonna be
used for is this fantasy scene.
- She's contemplating in between Nick or Luke.
And she can't be with Luke because he's a ghost.
- She's smart enough to know that it's not gonna work out.
But she also knows that just because you can't be
with a person doesn't mean you can't love 'em.
- [Charlie] She's supposed to be dancing with Nick.
But then she falls out of the dance with Nick,
and imagines Luke coming through the mirror.
- We felt that there was just something missing
in the connection with our characters.
So writing a song kinda gave us the feeling
of what Julie and Luke would feel
when they'd write a song together.
- Madison is insanely talented.
She blows me away.
- Collaborating with Charlie has been a very fun experience.
You get to see how a person thinks,
how they like wanna do better,
even though what they have is so amazing.
- Can we try one and then see what we need
to just kind of iron out?
♪ Step into my world ♪
♪ Bittersweet love story 'bout a girl ♪
♪ Shook me to the core ♪
♪ Voice like an angel ♪
♪ I've never heard before ♪
♪ Here in front of me ♪
♪ They're shining so much brighter ♪
♪ Than I have ever seen ♪
♪ Life can be so mean ♪
♪ But when he goes, I know he doesn't leave ♪
(Madison laughs)
Well, you know the musicality
We did the dance this morning.
It was very fun.
It was my first time dancing with Charlie.
- Look.
'Sup, shorty, spin.
(both laugh)
- We're up in beautiful Vancouver
at the studios recording it.
- Now we can come and record with the intentions
of the dance version,
and the intentions of what we want for the song.
- [Alana] Let's have Charlie just sing his parts.
Madison don't sing your parts.
♪ We play pretend ♪
♪ We create ♪
- [Alana] I feel so good about that.
- You don't have her,
"We say we're friends you're more to me" by herself.
- Oh yeah, good call Charlie.
So let's get on Madison's tracks.
She's just gonna do a couple gentle endings.
♪ We say we're friends ♪
♪ You're more to me ♪
♪ Perfect harmony ♪
- [Alana] Yeah, I love it.
- You start with nothing.
And then you turn it into something like big and amazing.
♪ Our voices rise and soar so high ♪
♪ We come to life when we're in perfect harmony ♪
- One of the coolest things with working with Kenny
is that a lot of the stuff you wanna bring to the show,
if you have character ideas
or you have little bits that you wanna put in,
he'll take it and run with it.
- I've matured a lot from this experience.
I can't wait to do it again.
Take that leap, take that chance
because that chance can lead you to greatness.
(gentle music)