Lady Gaga has had her fair share of religious controversy lately, but seems set to stir things up again with plans for an Easter release of the video to her new single Judas.
Lady Gaga’s production team was forced into releasing the song itself a week ago when poor quality copies were made available online.
The song uses Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, as a metaphor for “falling in love with the wrong man over and over again” and going “back again to those evil things”.
Some of the lyrics read: “In the most Biblical sense/I am beyond repentance/Fame hooker, prostitute wench, vomits her mind.”
It seems that Lady Gaga dresses up as Mary Magdalene in the music video, complete with a black cape and dark make-up.
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights criticised the timing of the video launch as a cheap, publicity “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," said Bill Donohue, a spokesperson for the group who ripped into the pop star.
“She is trying to rip off Christian idolatry to shore up her talentless, mundane and boring performances,” he added.
“Is this the only way to jet up her performance? This isn’t random, we are getting closer to Holy Week and Easter. Does she actually believe her own BS?”