To kick off RootsTech 2022, FamilySearch created a music video to celebrate this year's theme, #ChooseConnection.
All classes, main stage keynotes, and content from RootsTech 2022 and previous years can be accessed on by visiting https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/
Choose Connection is a social movement that encourages people to connect with others—familial relationships, friendships, connections with a stranger, etc., because connection can enrich and bring meaning to our lives.
Connection can take many forms, whether it be something simple like a “hello” to a stranger, to dinner with family, to connecting with people online, to going the extra mile to serve in your community and more.
#ChooseConnection is all about uniting people worldwide while celebrating our diversity and highlighting how individuals choose connection over division.
Music and lyrics by Jonathan Wing. Performed by Aaliyah Rose. Produced by Scott Wiley of June Audio.
Song Lyrics:
Please don’t get me wrong
But I think you’re caught up in a lie
Just hear me out
‘Cause it’s something that I can’t deny
Just look inside (of everyone around you)
Tell me what you see
When you power up your WiFi
A world divided
Tell me, are you gonna comply?
And just stand by (with everyone around you)
_________
Hey! (Hey!)
We’re gonna change it all today
Listen there’s something we gotta say
We’re not heading in the wrong direction
‘Cause everybody here’s gonna choose connection
Hey! (Hey!)
We’re gonna change it all today
Listen there’s something we gotta say
Think it’s time for a new perception
Yeah go on, just let it go and choose connection
_________
What you gonna do
When you wake up and you realize?
We’re more connected
Than divided, can you recognize?
Come on decide (to lift everyone around you)
_________
Hey! (Hey!)
We’re gonna change it all today
Listen there’s something we gotta say
We’re not heading in the wrong direction
‘Cause everybody here’s gonna choose connection
Hey! (Hey!)
We’re gonna change it all today
Listen there’s something we gotta say
Think it’s time for a new perception
Yeah go on, just let it go and choose connection
_________
Whoa. O. O. O. Oh!
Whoa. O. O. O. Oh!
Whoa. O. O. O. Oh!
Gonna choose connection
Whoa. O. O. O. Oh!
Whoa. O. O. O. Oh!
Whoa. O. O. O. Oh!
Gonna choose connection
_________
Disconnection
Imperfection
Preconception
Self-deception
Misdirection
Interjection
Self-rejection
No exception
They say it loud
But we say it with conviction
Come on everybody
Let’s choose connection!
_________
Hey! (Hey!)
We’re gonna change it all today
Listen there’s something we gotta say
We’re not heading in the wrong direction
‘Cause everybody here’s gonna choose connection
Hey! (Hey!)
We’re gonna change it all today
Listen there’s something we gotta say
Think it’s time for a new perception
Yeah go on, just let it go and choose connection
Repeat 2x More
