"She is trying to rip off Christian idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances," says the president of the Catholic League.
Lady Gaga is stirring up controversy with the lyrics and video for
her new song, "Judas."
The tune features lyrics like: "I want
to love you,/but something’s pulling me away from you/Jesus is my virtue, and
Judas is the demon I cling to….I’m just a holy fool,/ oh baby he’s so cruel,/
but I’m still in love with Judas, baby.”
Fumes Bill Donahue, president
of The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, in a statement: "This is
a stunt... Lady Gaga tries to continue to shock Catholics and Christians in
general: she dresses as a nun... she swallows the rosary. She has now morphed
into a caricature of herself.
"She is trying to rip off Christian
idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances. Another
ex-Catholic whose head is turned around... Is this the only way to jet up her
performance? This isn't random, we are getting closer to Holy Week and Easter."
Gaga plays Mary Magdalene in the
forthcoming video, which her creative director,Laurieann Gibson (who
was behind the Grammy egg), told The
Hollywood Reporter that"Judas" shouldn't be
offensive.
"It went through several changes and
late-night debates because at one point, there were two completely different
views and I was like, 'Listen, I don't want lightning to strike me! I believe
in the gospel and I'm not going there.' And it was amazing because to have that
conversation about salvation, peace and the search for the truth in a room of
non-believers and believers, to me, that was saying God is active in a big way.
And the place that it came to is surreal. We don't touch on things that we have
no right touching upon, but the inspiration and the soul and idea that out of
your oppression, your darkness, your Judas, you can come into the marvelous
light. So it's about the inspiration and to never give up… We've created a new
Jerusalem.
When asked if she would have walked away from the video if she didn't agree with the final treatment, Gibson said, "Absolutely. I do believe God inspired and worked on everyone's heart, but yes. I would have been like, “Good bye, I ain't doing it. No way.” But the place it came to is really magical. And she's dancing her face off.
When asked if she would have walked away from the video if she didn't agree with the final treatment, Gibson said, "Absolutely. I do believe God inspired and worked on everyone's heart, but yes. I would have been like, “Good bye, I ain't doing it. No way.” But the place it came to is really magical. And she's dancing her face off.
Source: The Hollywood Reporters
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