Teenager features in new music video
A Chichester teenager is one of the stars of a new music video which has been released to launch a Down Syndrome Awareness Month campaign.
Wouldn’t Change A Thing, performed and written by The Bitterati featuring Anya Frankland, is an urban track which aims to positively tackles how mainstream individuals might feel uncomfortable around disability and why.
Chichester 17-year-old Jack Lawlor is one of a group of young people with Down syndrome who features in the music video for the song, which also highlights the love and positivity families feel for their relations with Down syndrome.
The single is accompanied by a campaign on social media, also named Wouldn’t Change A Thing, which enables people with Down syndrome, as well as their families and friends, to express how they feel.
The theme centres around the hashtags #Ourtruth and #Wouldntchangeathing and will portray exactly why those included ‘wouldn’t change a thing’.
Project manager Lisa Carr said: “Every campaign that #WCAT tackles is so important to me because I really do want to tell the world that I wouldn’t change a thing about my son Luke. #WCAT from the word go has represented our children in a wonderfully enlightening way.”
The hashtag was popularised by the ‘50 Mums | 50 Kids | 1 Extra Chromosome’ carpool karaoke lip sync video in March 2018, which has racked up over 500 million views and became headline news in over 30 countries.