Lovers Rock | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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A fictional story of young love and music at a blues party in the early 1980s. | dG1fUElhOEs5eWkxLW8

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00:00This is a story about the music and the way we were back in the 70s and 80s.

00:11We were the rebel generation.

00:23To me, lovers rock is the ingredients that's been put in by we here in the UK.

00:29This is our contribution to the recipe of reggae.

00:33It's a music, right, that speaks to the heart, the soul and the mind.

00:39It's a language, it's a way of life, it's a culture.

00:43I just love the way it makes me feel, I relax, nothing matters.

00:47It just makes me feel good, you know?

00:50When you hear it, you say, oh, where am I now?

00:54If I could give the world to you.

00:58We were the first generation from the Caribbean who had gone to school here.

01:03So it was about making a mark in a way.

01:05At the time, the streets weren't safe.

01:08We were experiencing a lot of racism.

01:14Our parents really didn't understand the system and what was going on.

01:17So Love of Rock was like an escape for us.

01:30It was almost like a kind of coping mechanism.

01:32You'd wait for that to come on.

01:34Even the wickedest man with the biggest car murderer, when he made a lover,

01:39he made a look like a girl for dance with them.

01:41I'm too exy, you're rubber.

01:47It was quite scary, because that dance is quite an intimate dance.

01:51I remember I didn't move much.

01:53I was held up against the wall.

01:55I ain't gonna tell you what happened, but I did jerk a lot, uncontrollably,

02:00against that wall, something happened.

02:02You know, when you actually go down like this,

02:04you go all the way down and you're feeling good about yourself

02:07because you've made it, your legs have a knot together,

02:09and then I look up and I realise that she hasn't come down with me,

02:11she's looking down and like, what are you doing, you're an idiot.

02:13We were creating something distinctly British, right?

02:20And we were hoping one day to be as big as any other genre.

02:26A lot of people were coming from Jamaica to be a part of the English industry

02:32and seeing Dennis Brown, your Gregory Isaacs, your Freddie MacGregor.

02:39Moving! Moving!

02:44By the 70s, when I was growing up as first generation Jamaican,

02:50we had kids at school, white kids at school,

02:54that was as familiar with reggae as we were,

02:57because their parents were into ska.

02:59My mum really loved Lovers Rock,

03:01and that's kind of what sucked me into the genre.

03:04At the moment there's a resurgence of Lovers Rock,

03:13and there's actually younger performers getting into it.

03:18A lot of Japanese Lovers Rock artists.

03:25Australia, New Zealand.

03:28So, it's taking hold globally.

03:37I've been wanting you

03:40For so long you say shit

03:44I'm gonna make you love

03:47Love me

03:50Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

03:56I'm stuck on you

03:58Got a feeling down leaving the soul

04:00That I just can't move

04:02Girl, I'm on my way

04:06Ed, Ed, Ed, Ed, you're not actually moving.

04:19I know, fears.

04:25Oh.

04:27With this music, we created our own unique genre that became known as lovers rock.

04:36Okay, people, this is lovers rock.

Lovers Rock | movie | 2020 | Official Trailer

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