ASL Induced Earworms

That’s not really a title I would ever expect to type, but there you have it. Weird stuff happens in my house every day.

Elly was practicing signing a song, (yes signing, not singing), a school project that she has to be ready to do after spring break. She’s pretty much got it down. This is the song she chose.

But after practicing over and over again for ages, she was sick of that and decided to try signing something else. Of course she was doing all of this IN MY BED (she’s worse than Skeeter, I tell you) and she decided she really wanted to learn the “Rick Roll Song” (which caused me and TW to crack up.)

But, she did not seem to appreciate me singing as she signed, so I decided to wander around youtube for some Elly-like songs that she could sign.

We started with Creep:

Then, Drops of Jupiter:

Which led to Hey Soul Sister:

Which led to Bow Chicka Wow Wow:

Which led to… hold onto your ears (and eyes) and turn the sound up as loud as it will go… Barbie World:

And for the next two hours all I could do was sing “It’s a Barbie Worllllllld”. I love that song but it sure does get stuck in your head. I think it’s worse than that song Rick Springfield sings… (don’t say it out loud, don’t even think it or it will get stuck in your head!)

If only I could find an ASL video for Copacabana…