When I first saw this thread, I hadn’t even heard of the song Judas. It spiked my curiosity and I google video’d it to see what all the fuss was about.
While the music video was mildly graphic, weird, and dark (like most of her videos) I honestly didn’t see why the song itself was so controversial to the people on this forum. My only guess is most of you are kinda misunderstanding the actual meaning of the song, and only quickly dismissing it because she talks about Judas and mentions Jesus’ name.
It comes across to me as a bit foolish to condemn a song so quickly, before the listener has actually really listened to it, read the lyrics, and tried to understand the metaphor.
The song is NOT about falling in love with the actual bible character, Judas. Neither is it about condoning Judas or worshiping him in any way. It’s a METAPHOR.
The song lyrics say very clearly *“Jesus is my virtue, Judas is the demon I cling to.”
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…On the surface, the song is about good girls falling for bad guys and about the struggles with the glamor of temptation. But it goes a little deeper than that.
Lady Gaga talks about the more
in depth meaning of it in an interview:
"It’s about leaving your darkness behind in order to come into the light. I have a lot of things that have haunted me from my past - choices, men, drug abuse, being afraid to go back to New York, confronting old romances - and Judas represents, for me, something that is bad for me that I can’t escape. I keep going back and forth between the darkness and the light in order to understand who I am." -LadyGaga
This is NOT a satanic song. It is simply a song that uses biblical reference as metaphors.
If you don’t like the song, don’t listen to it. If, for some reason, it still offends you, don’t listen to it. But if you like Lady Gaga’s other songs, by all means, rock out! You don’t have to stop listening to music you like just because the same artist wrote another song that you DON’T like. I mean, come on. That’s just silly and extremely petty.