D-PAN "Beautiful" ASL Music Video

D-PAN Presents Christina Aguliera's "Beautiful" performed in American Sign Language (ASL).

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Lyrics:

[Spoken]
Don't look at me

Every day is so wonderful
Then suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the pain, I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down
So don't you bring me down today

To all your friends, you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The pieces gone, left the puzzle undone
Is that the way it is

You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring you down
You are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring you down
Don't you bring me down today...

No matter what we do
(no matter what we do)
No matter what we say
(no matter what we say)
We're the song inside the tune
Full of beautiful mistakes

And everywhere we go
(everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
(sun will always shine)
And tomorrow we might wake on the other side
All the other times

We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words can't bring us down
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down
Don't you bring me down today

Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today

Category:

Music

Tags:

• d-pan
• asl
• music
• video
• DPAN
• christina
• aguliera
• beautiful
• deaf
• sign
• language

[CherryLicious58]

Deafness runs in my family. I am almost deaf. It is especially hard for me because I am living in a small town with no deaf people. I have no interpreters for school, and I work in customer service with people who do not understand that I can’t hear them. I AM used to feeling stupid on a daily basis. When I watched this video, it made me cry. Just knowing that there is someone who understands me. Thank you

[kjmom24kids]

I have a brain tumor and Epilepsy...I am in tears watching and listening to this...I have watching the other one "We're going to be friends" this morning! Thank you for your gift! Thank you for sharing your gift with me this morning! I have been facing adversity head on the best I feel I can and at times feel like I am about to crumble...and then something like your video appears! THIS was EXACTLY what I needed at this moment! THANK YOU! <3

[tornam31]

I am not deaf, I am not American. I'm from Europe, I am learning Polish sign language. It's very challenging here but I find lot of help watching your videos.

[bandi02bunny]

I'm not deaf but I'm learning asl ad i=enjoy Deaf culture very much. It's cool Because i've heard of dpan but didn't know they had vids on youtube. Coolbeans.

[mumina22]

@CherryLicious58

You are NOT stupid. Embrace what you have. I am hearing and don't understand asl, so I feel stupid. I hope to learn asl and more about the deaf culture. You are beautiful <3

[PabloZG]

I'm glad that there are people out there showing everyone of us with hearing problems how we are not alone

[symbolt]

@vr4jay Yeah but the translation doesn't replace the signing, does it? ;) It's always like that with any translation, you usually lose something between any pair of languages (signed or spoken). But at least you understand a lot, and actually, some signs (e.g. iconic ones) are similar across languages, but not identical - seeing the translation may allow a person to realize what the sign means and see the similarity.

[vr4jay]

@symbolt Your right, and no I do not think we should ban access. I just think the nature of the video would loose a lot with a translation.

I think its sad that some d/Deaf do not know sign. And for some reason, I did not think about other sign languages.

[symbolt]

@vr4jay They DO translate the signs. A translation is not the same as the original language, it's a translation. Are you saying it's best to ban access (as in "access to information") to the content to this video to people who are d/Deaf but don't know ASL? There are many sign languages in the world, as well as many deaf/hard-of-hearing people who don't sign (to me, that's unfortunate, but that's the way it is).

[vr4jay]

@symbolt Well, its made in the beautiful language to show they are not different. English captions do not translate the signs anyway.

[symbolt]

@vr4jay You serious? Well, how do I forward this to Deaf friends who don't know ASL?