Louder: The Soundtrack of Change | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A celebration of music and rallying cry across generations, genres, anchored by female icons whose songs and activism in | dG1fci02bThvOHNkVEE

Transcript

00:00Music is one of the most powerful ways to put a message out there.

00:07It is a painful thing to tell a dark story.

00:11But we've learned that the louder you are, the more the forces of oppression will try to silence you.

00:19It was really hard in the 90s to be a woman in a feminist band.

00:23Men were standing up and yelling, shut up and take it off.

00:27In gangster rap, you had songs like, a bitch is a bitch.

00:30Queen Latifah was pushing back against this dominant archetype.

00:35Chaka Khan, she was the blueprint.

00:38You have to fearlessly go into this madness, and you have to find your walk.

00:43I have seen the world change and grow.

00:46But today, it seems like things are going backwards.

00:52Music is more powerful now than ever because it's an example where people come together.

00:56What do I owe the women who came before me?

00:58I think we have a responsibility.

01:00We can't right the loss.

01:02Maybe we can inspire the people who do.

01:05The fights that we're in can be overwhelming, and we lose the thread.

01:09Music lets us find it again.

01:11Your song, I Am Woman, it suggests an aggressiveness.

01:14It's a positive statement, okay? Positive.

01:18A lot of women before us paved the way to be as loud and proud as possible.

01:25I was put on this earth to do music,

01:27to inspire and empower little girls to do things that we're not expected to do.