Yeah, it’s about that “Judas” business. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, heard that in the upcoming music video for “Judas,” Lady Gaga will play Mary Magdalene, some dude will play Judas, and blasphemy will certainly ensue. Check out some of his harsh words about Lady Gaga:
“This is a stunt,” he says. “People have real talent, and then there is Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga tries to continue to shock Catholics and Christians in general: she dresses as a nun, she gets raped, she swallows the rosary. She has now morphed into a caricature of herself. She is falling short. She wants to shock, does she actually believe her own BS?”
“I find Gaga to be increasingly irrelevant. She thinks she is going to be groundbreaking. She is trying to ripoff Christian idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances. Another ex-Catholic whose head is turned around. This is a stunt. People have real talent, and then there is Lady Gaga. Is this the only way to jet up her performance? This isn’t random, we are getting closer to Holy Week and Easter.”
“Maybe if she had more talent we’d be more offended. She has gone to the well too many times,” Bill said.
Snap! “Maybe if she had more talent we’d be more offended.” Them’s fightin’ words that I doubt Bill would say if he knew that Lady Gaga is a Transformer.
Once again, I’m going to have to ask for your input on this one. See, I hate Lady Gaga’s stupid music (did you listen to “Judas”? One of the lyrics is “wear ear condom next time.” And that’s absurd), but I also have really unpopular opinions about Judas (the dude, not the shitty song). I know this because after I went off on a rant about Judas in Dante’s Inferno in a lit class at my tiny Methodist college, my professor pulled me aside after class and said “Emily, you have really unpopular opinions about Judas.” I’m not going to go into details right now, but suffice it to say that I think that the dude gets a lot of flack that he doesn’t necessarily deserve. So on one hand, I’m proud of Lady Gaga for possibly addressing my point of view on Judas and for sticking it to The Man, but on the other hand, I want to destroy all evidence that this song ever existed.
What do you think?
The problem with this whole thing is that Lady Gaga is *very* talented. That woman can *sing*, and she can play the piano like nobody’s business. I think people get distracted by her antics (or the fact that they just don’t like her songs) into thinking that she’s just trying to cover up a lack of talent with shock value, but unfortunately this isn’t the case.
I loved The Fame, but everything she’s putting out lately sounds like a carbon copy of Madonna. Both “Born This Way” and “Judas” sound like bad 90’s music. I’d like to see her go back to the dance-pop she did before, it was much better than the stuff I’ve heard from her new album.
i love freedom of speech!!
Funny. I find the Catholic church to be the one becoming “increasingly irrelevant.”
AC you’re right the Catholic Church are becoming irrelevant…LOL jk there’s over a billion Catholics in the world…
No, no, an actual billion? I mean people who go to Catholic masses every week. In Spain, for example, over 90% of people are baptised but only 10% go to mass.
I wish she’d go back to more danceable songs like Bad Romance or Alejandro –my personal favourite–, but I do love the song. It’s going to kill it in Europe. Also, she is incredibly talented (you should see her playing Speechless on a piano), but also happens to like to put on a show. I don’t think those are mutually exclusive.
I feel stupid that I didn’t really get all that from the Alejandro video.
Then again I don’t understand anything about religion.
This is ridiculous. How can Donahue say she has no talent? makes absolutely no sense. The song is a metaphor about a person who betrayed her. People need to start appreciating good talent. Who know when “another Lady GaGa” will come around. But its no big deal though, she’s only the most iconic woman in the music industry right now…