Hi guys! Sorry for the lack of posts been so busy with uni, but its almost summer so it will probably go from one extreme to the other soon and you’ll be sick of me posting.
I had to post today though as I’ve just watched boy-band the vamps new video for there current single middle of the night. I was pleasantly surprised to see the main actor and actress in the video using sign language to communicate. I say pleasantly surprised because i have followed the vamps career for a while i wouldn’t say i’m a fan-girl but I’ve seen them live many times when they were support acts for the wanted, and have always respected them as musicians and enjoyed their singles as well of live sets i have seen.
Their position in the music industry from when i stated following their career has grown hugely they are now one of the biggest boy band in the UK and that brings with it people admiring them and respecting their opinions. Meaning bringing disability into the mainstream media on the big platform that they have will make an impression on a huge audience and make disabilities more widely seen.
What was great about this video is the song wasn’t about disability it was making no political statement just two disabled people in a normal situation breaking up or meeting up after a break up i cant decide tbh! But this is amazing making advisability visible in terms of everyday normal situation and not just hired as disabled actors just actors ( if they were actually disabled that is, which i hope they were)
So thank you to the vamps this video may seem to some as just a video that wont make much of a difference, but i see it as visibility for disabled people as the humans that we are and not our disability.
Whoa I had no idea about this, I love this song and my parents are actually deaf. I know sign language and I use it to communicate with them – I will have to check this video out, thanks for sharing!
LikeLike
please do cause i think its just the lyrics to the song but im not sure so please telling me what there saying!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Haven’t seen their latest video but love their music. I think it’s amazing when band or artists do things like this in their videos instead of having skinny pretty models!
LikeLiked by 1 person
definitely spreads a better message!
LikeLike
This is such a wonderful thing to see, even if there’s no message behind it, it’s just inclusion, which is fab! x
LikeLiked by 1 person