A family that signs together, stays together. This is so sweet.
Transcript:
ALL: Hi!
MIKE: My name is Mike. My sign name is this.
SARAH: I'm Sarah.
FAITH: I'm Faith.
SOPHIE: I'm Sophie.
MIKE: I'm deaf and they're not. Why are we here?
FAITH: To talk about our ASL music videos.
('Ice Ice Baby' by Vanilla Ice)
# Stop
# Collaborate and listen
# Ice is back with my brand new invention
# Something grabs a hold of me tightly
# Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
# Will it ever stop? Yo, I don't know
# Turn off the lights and I'll glow
# To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
# Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle. #
MIKE: Yeah. Where did the idea come from? Well, I love music and I like to watch a variety of videos on YouTube. And then one day, it hit me, "Why not make my own videos?"
('I Believe I Can Fly' by R Kelly)
# I believe I can soar
# I see me running through that open door
# I believe I can fly #
('Livin' On A Prayer' by Bon Jovi)
# ...what we've got
# It doesn't make a difference if we make it or not
# We've got each other and that's a lot for love
# We'll give it a shot
# Woah, we're half way there
# Woah...
# MIKE: That was back in 2012. At first, it was just me in the videos, signing to the songs, and I didn't find it inspiring. So, I thought more about it and I suddenly thought, "Why not have my daughters in the videos?" ('Shake It Off' by Taylor Swift) # 'Cause the players gonna
# play, play, play, play, play
# And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
# Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
# I shake it off, I shake it off
# Heart-breakers gonna break, break... #
('Motorbreath' by Metallica)
# I can't take it any other way
# Motorbreath
# The sign of living fast
# It is going to take
# Your breath away #
(electric guitar solo) ('No' by Meghan Trainor')
# Oh my name is no
# My sign is no
# My number is no
# You need to let it go
# You need to let it go
# Need to let it go
# Ah to the ah to the, no, no, no!
MIKE: I started to notice that having them in the videos made it more cool, fun, interesting, and uplifting.
('Black Or White' by Michael Jackson)
# Protection for gangs, clubs and nations
# Causing grief in human relations
# It's a turf war on a global scale
# I'd rather hear both sides of the tale
# See, it's not about races
# Just places
# Faces
# Where your blood comes from
# Is where your space is
# I've seen the bright get duller
# I'm not going to spend my life being a color
# Don't tell me you agree with me
# When I saw you kicking dirt in my eye
# But if you're thinkin' about my baby #
It don't matter if you're black or white #
('Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson)
# Don't believe me just watch
# Don't believe me just watch
# Don't believe me just watch
# Don't believe me just watch
# Hey, hey, hey, oh!
# Stop! Wait a minute
# Fill my cup put some liquor in it #
(electric guitar solo)
MIKE: That's how we started. There are more than 80 videos on our YouTube channel, and we plan to keep making them from time to time.
SARAH: We love signing, because it's fun and cool to learn.
MIKE: Yeah.
SOPHIE: We love to share with you all.
MIKE: Please check out our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/hiddenhub We hope you enjoy watching them as much as we enjoy making them. Thanks for watching.
ALL: Bye!
