The videos audio only contains an excerpt of the song ‘Offence’ by Little Simz, each lyric in this transcript plays over a quick cut montage of different shots of different women.
Lyrics: Me again, allow me to pick up where I left off
A woman runs across a large pale green field, breathing heavily, she comes to a stop.
A female swimmer puts on her swimming cap and pulls up her swimsuit in a changing room.
A woman walks through a well grown park with her baby in a chest baby carrier.
Lyrics: The biggest phenomenon and I’m Picasso with the pen
A mother and daughter run down metal stairs outdoors.
A woman pushes her bed out of the way to make room for an exercise class being conducted over Zoom, she chats to the others on the call.
Lyrics: They just wanna talk that stuff until I hit them with the realness
The swimmer is lowered into the swimming pool via a hoist.
Lyrics: Figured I should say some’, but you don’t wanna hear me vent
The running woman continues running through the field.
A young woman lays in bed with a hot water bottle on her stomach.
Kids run around the house whilst a mother puts her on facemask before exercising.
Lyrics: You can talk bad all day long, I will never be impressed, dunno what I did to make you feel that you be earnin’ my respect
The zoom exercise class is now in action and the woman stands by a yoga mat doing high kicks.
The mother and daughter are now curling kettlebells on the bricked floor below the metal stairs.
The runner takes off her shoes at a rocky beach and wanders into the shallow waters.
Lyrics: I followed the white rabbit, got a couple carrots I know that I got bad habits , tryna find the balance, I’m in the store like, I wanna have it I gotta have it.
The swimmer swims widths of the pool.
The zoom class ends and the woman planks on the yoga mat, she holds, then hits the mat.
The mother & daughter laugh with each other on a sofa.
Lyrics: You are not the toughest or baddest, my pen is the maddest, I’ve probably ended careers and it’s never out of malice
The woman on the yoga mat jumps back into it and performs punching situps.
The mother & daughter perform pushups on mats in their living room.
Lyrics: May aswell get a birthday cake and it ain’t even my birthday, ‘cause when I switch then they wanna say that I’m a-
The woman with kids stands in a park, her child runs to her to hand her dumbbells. She lifts the child and then squats with him on her back.
The runner is now in an urban setting, running past houses.
Lyrics: You’re not listening, you’re not listening, I said it with my chest and I don’t care who I offend, uh-huh.
The video quickly cuts through all of the women again before ending on the mother doing squats with her child, the This Girl Can logo appears over them.