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Liverpool Vox (Long)-Transcript
Music: Cross That Line (intro)
Kween G: Respect is a theme that's pretty broad and I actually had to think about it
when we were saying respect. I sat down and asked myself, 'what is respect?', because
when you do things, you don't actually ask yourself what it is or why it is; so just
being able to sit down and think about respect and really what I think it is and how I think
it should be delivered and what I think it isn't and how to deal with these kind of situations.
It's helped me to be able to write about it because I think it's important.
L-FRESH the Lion: To have a concept like respect as a foundation for building a song I think
is a really good starting point, because songwriting is about trying to isolate a particular theme
and really nail that theme so that the listener can feel what it is that you want to say about
that. So when we're starting with this theme of respect it's actually really, really broad.
Even though it may seem narrow-'okay, what can we talk about when it comes to respect?'-there's
so many different concepts that we can talk about. So there's, you know, relationships
in the school yard when it comes to bullying and friendship circles and so forth, and there's
the home environment where stuff like domestic violence and respecting your elders comes
into play. So there's so many things that we can talk about and I think it's good for
us to have that as a foundation.
Soni: Respect to me, well, what do I think of it? Well, respect for me in my opinion
is mainly the courtesy between two individuals or a group, you know. I see respect as love,
having care, being humble, down to earth, just that humbleness, you know, for that other
person. That's what I think respect is.
Kween G: Whenever I see any young person or any kind of person showing respect for themselves
and respect to others and being humble, I think that's really good.
Music: Cross That Line
L-FRESH the Lion: That can have an amazing impact on then how you view the world and
how you treat other people as well. So, through stuff like this and through workshops like
this, if we can get that confidence level up, that sense of self-respect up, that can
have a positive impact on the way that they view the world.
Aaron: If you give respect to someone they will give it in return and that's what it's
all about.
Lapila: Although you may not receive it, it's good to show respect, because, you know, respect
to your elders, respect to your peers, your loved ones, your family and hopefully they
show it back.
L-FRESH the Lion: Today's been really cool working with the guys that showed up today
because when you don't know people, you haven't met them, and getting them to do little exercises
and think about how we all just judge people and we don't know them and then once we know
their story and we just want to give them sympathy. It comes down to everything, you
know, how we judge people, how we think about people's races and it kind of came down to
the conclusion that if we all thought about each other, not as where we're from, or what
country we're from, or what colour our skin is, or what we do and just put everyone on
one level and just said, no, we're humans, you know, and we're looking for a peace culture.
Music: Cross That Line
Tamara: Respect to me basically means having equal values for a person, family, friends
because you would want to do unto others what you would want them to do unto you.
Alisa: I think respect means caring for other people's stuff. Say, if someone else has a
pencil you don't just grab it and break it in half, you return it to them. You don't
just leave it there, or you don't break it in half, so you have to have respect to their
things and what they have.
L-FRESH the Lion: To try and get that value of respect back for a young person who may
have been through a lot can sometimes be difficult, but I think the creative process is one of
those things that can really help them get that back. One thing about songwriting in
particular is that while a person is going through it they are forced to explore themselves
and they're forced to look at themselves in ways they may not have ever done before. So
it forces them to ask themselves some serious questions. And in that process, while they're
creating and they hear back what it is that they're doing and they understand what it
is that they're creating, they're sense of self respect, for one, increases and I think
that goes a long way to trying to instil within them this value of respect in the long-term.
Music: Cross That Line (outro)