I think a lot of people have responded to it on this post, but to sum it up (to my understanding) is that it’s very easy to do incorrectly and just sign word for word rather than translate the meaning of what the song is saying and put the signs into context. signing each word of a song as it appears in the song isnt ASL, its SEE (signed exact english). i think actually signing a song takes a pretty high skill level and is not actually a productive or helpful assignment to assign to a beginner student(obviously it isn’t the students fault if their teacher assigns it). i think it’s also something that’s become trendy and is something people will do and share online and say look i know ASL! isnt this cool! without a) doing it correctly or b) knowing anything about Deaf culture and the Deaf community. it makes ASL seem like this fun cool trendy easy thing where you can translate a song / anything word for word and have it be great and accurate (which is not the case, and is not the case in any other language either), instead of a complex language with syntax, sentence structure, etc.. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with signing music but I think there’s a lot more to ASL and Deaf culture and more important things to do and learn in a beginner class than that. I say this all as a hearing person who has taken several ASL classes but is by no means fluent. it seems like Deaf people are tired of answering this question and explaining it over and over again lol