A Critic for Christianity Symbols
A friend of mine asking me to
do translation for "Judas" sing by Lady Gaga. At first, i was thinking
that its just another "crazy" (or is it brilliant) work of Lady Gaga,
that presented a certain generation criticism to (post) modernity to
have the freedom to express themselves freely, and also the living of
wild creativity with vivid colour using and "creative fashion style"
media usage. Who is Lady Gaga? Perhaps most of the people knows who is
she, and her background, but for those who doesn't know Lady Gaga, i
will try to brief her details in here.
According to her official
website; Lady Gaga's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta
born in New York on March 28th, 1986 from an Italian American family and
therefore she was raised in Roman Catholic tradition (or at least
familiar with the tradition). She studied at New York University at the
faculty of Tisch School of the Arts. Her career in music is not instant,
she also admitted that she was once consuming drugs to help her perform
in "barely a clothes" costume, that made her father did not want to
look at her. She said that she went to a Catholic school but it was on
the New York underground that she found herself. She released her debut
album in 2008 with her famous single "Just Dance, "Poker Face, "Bad
Romance" and earned 6 Grammy Nominees, after several years of struggle.
(source from wikipedia.com)
This is just an amateur writing of a
woman who is interested to her song "Judas". Many might consider her
song is evil and also might condemn her as the devil's own, or perhaps
the satan seed. Some just plainly ignored and just think of her as
crazy, while others probably consider her as very representative to
their view of religion, symbols of religion, rebellious, extreme
creativity, pop culture and trulan artist, and a trace of feminism
inside her music video of "Judas."
My expectancy, at first, was a
bit historical modernized scene, but i have never expected that she
would interpret Jesus and his apostles as motor bike gang, especially
with big bike, skulls embroidered leather jacket and rugged hard look
with 2 days stubble and dirty look. What took my interest more is that
she is in the video, if i may freely interpret, she represent the
enigmatic presence of Maria, the woman who wash Jesus' feet in the
Gospel of John, Lady Gaga herself is a kind of enigmatic i think,
because her life perhaps some would think very worldly, yet she still
think of theological challenge in her mind.
Lady Gaga's song lyric
and music video called "Judas" is filled with Christianity symbols, her
interpretation of the Gospel of John, her rebellious action toward
Roman Catholic tradition she was raised in, and her critics to religion
institution about freedom and feminism. For some this might be consider
as offensive and perhaps even an abomination to the Holy Icon. Yet, the
writer tends to see it as a constructive critics to Christianity.
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