If you have watched the hit Disney+ series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, then you know it’s lead character Ricky, portrayed by Joshua Bassett. Since the show aired, Bassett has grown into a young star. The limelight has been a positive for Bassett’s music because not even a year after the show debuted, Bassett is signed with Warner Records and just released his debut original song “Common Sense.” It’s just a taste from what we will here on his forthcoming debut album. Check out the lyric video for “Common Sense” now.
The song has a simple guitar with pretty violins later in the second half of the song, with Bassett’s calming vocals while singing about someone you love but necessarily maybe not the best, but love is love, no matter what ‘common sense’ tells you. Bassett explains the song, “‘Common Sense’ was one of those lightning-strike songs: the idea came to me seemingly prepackaged, while I was driving to an acting audition. I could barely keep up with it, spilling out the lyrics into my voice memo’s app. When I eventually parked the car that I was practically living out of at the mall across the street, I quickly whipped out my guitar and finished the song in 15 minutes. It felt truly magical. The song is pretty simple; you know someone’s bad news, yet you can’t help but love them anyway. I think everyone, of any age, can relate to that on some level. Love is love, no matter what ‘common sense’ tells you.”
Already earning major accolades this year including a Nickelodeon Kid’s Choice Award nomination for Favorite TV Actor, Joshua Bassett continues to display that he is a force to be reckoned with and a multi-faceted artist to watch in 2020 with the release of “Common Sense.”
Joshua will join Global Citizen and World Health Organization with a live performance on his Instagram today at 2pm PT as part of their #TogetherAtHome campaign which works to engage and mobilize people to take urgent action in support of the global effort to tackle COVID-19. Go to the “Together At Home” campaign page to take action to learn more about COVID-19, to support the World Health Organization (WHO), and to help protect vulnerable people from the spread of the virus.
Joshua will also do a live “Build at Home” interview today with Build Series by Yahoo at 1pm PT. Fans can tune in at www.yahoo.com/entertainment/buildseries/. On Monday, Joshua participated in #KidsTogether: The Nickelodeon Town Hall and performed a re-worked version of “Common Sense” which can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYeTahHdKMo.