You've got your bad boys, depressed artists, non-committal jocks, and the secret singers. Then you have Oswald Luwen. Stuck with the name of a octopus character from a kids show is about as interesting as you get with him.
Add in a normal, sarcastic apparently "different" high school girl and "the" hot, popular douchebag of a high school player, and voila : there you go!
A cliched high school story.