Lady Gaga Has Revealed Video For "Judas"

The potentially controversial new video for Lady Gaga's new single "Judas" has hit the net. This club-banger is the second single from Gaga's forthcoming sophomore album, "Born This Way." The dance song is about falling in love with a backstabbing guy and was inspired by Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus Christ. It's about sometimes not choosing the right choice. But you can't deny that the choice is not a part of you and who you are. The 25-year-old songstress has claimed the biblically-themed video is "not a biblical lesson."
Similar sound to Gaga's previous singles, "Judas" contains three distinct hooks and a break down influenced by house music that speaks of a woman in love with a man who betrays her while simultaneously embodying things that have haunted her in the past, thus representing something that was bad for her – something she could not escape. The 'Poker Face' singer explained that it's also about "honoring your darkness in order to bring yourself into the light. You have to look into what's haunting you and need to learn to forgive yourself in order to move on." Despite the dark lyrics, the song is aimed at clubbers.
Gaga said she didn't intend the song to be a direct interpretation of the New Testament account of Jesus' fallen disciple. "'Judas' is a metaphor and an analogy about forgiveness and betrayal and things that haunt you in your life, and how I believe that it's the darkness in your life that ultimately shines and illuminates the greater light that you have upon you. If you have no shadows then you're not standing in the light. So the song is about washing the feet of both good and evil, and understanding and forgiving the demons from your past in order to move into the greatness of your future."
Gaga filmed the funky, pop-culture-influenced clip in early April with her creative director, Laurieann Gibson, who explained that with this video, "'We've created a new Jerusalem," referring to the setting of the Biblical story. The shock value in the video is purposefully added, but ultimately the story is about oppression; and about following your heart and the glory of being free." It includes a Biblical storyline revolving around a love triangle between Mary Magdalene (Gaga), Judas (Norman Reedus) and Jesus (Rick Gonzalez). The theatrical factor is high on this one, with a crowd of elaborately costumed dancers gyrating as Gaga trains her gun on Judas, then ceremoniously washes Jesus's feet.