I mean, some of her influences are the porn industry and old school gore films… Keely: which is why we love her Bethany: or hate to love her. Keely: Wait, I got it! If the three guys represent the Father/Son/Holy Spirit she’s singing about how she wants to leave them, and then in the video she makes it pretty clear she’s done with that badness… Bethany: Well isn’t the whole album about past lovers (monsters)? Keely: yeah, I kinda get that the song’s probably more about fear of commitment than about fear of sex because clearly the latter phobia is one she hasn’t had for a looooooooong time Bethany: I agree. Keely: Wow, way to get intellectual on me! Elevates the anti-Catholic symbolism in the video to a whole new level, doesn’t it? Bethany: Yeah, I just feel like she’s stomping on the Catholic church (real original huh?) The point that sold it for me was when she swallowed the rosary whole. Maybe it’s a…metaphorical allusion to, like, a whole harem? Bethany: Or, it could be a triptych metaphor comparing Alejandro, Fernando, and Roberto to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit/Ghost. Keely: Well, she does mention three names in the song (Alejandro, Fernando, Roberto). Bethany: Yeah, I don’t know, and when it got to the part where she got gangbanged by the shirtless dance crew I was totally confused. I can only hear the name Alejandro so many times! Keely: I like how she got extra naked just in time to sing “her boyfriend’s like her dad, just like her dad.” A+ with the subtlety there, Gaga not that I even want to know what she’s implying. Bethany: It had some serious eye candy, but the 8:43min video started to drown. Bethany: I guess you have to reenact “hot like Mexico,” somehow right? Keely: fair enough. Keely: Wait, according to an MTV interview she did, this song was about her… fear of sex? Uh, clearly she’s conquered that one. Bethany: I thought it was about her telling this Alejandro fellow that she is over him. Keely: Did you understand that, btw? Like, one second there’s a funeral and the next there are like fifty writhing naked bodies. I don’t think she’ll be welcome there for a while Bethany: I wonder what the Pope will think about her creative expression. Didn’t she grow up Catholic? Bethany: Yeah, when she was 11 she attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Roman Catholic school.
She’s not going to be showing her face around church anymore, that’s for sure.
What does it all mean? Here they are, in a conversation over GChat, trying to figure it all out. That may not be blasphemous in a religious sense, but it certainly violates all the covenants of good taste.You aren’t the only one baffled by Lady Gaga’s just-released video for her single “Alejandro.” Our interns also tried to wrap their heads around the machine gun bras, Three Stooges haircuts, and overt religious imagery. Plus, this criticism comes from a woman who just released a video for “California Gurls” in which frosting jets from her breasts. Well, we know plenty of guys out there who are quite fond of fart jokes actually. “Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke,” Perry Tweeted to her fans on Tuesday. In the video, Lady Gaga also sucks and deep throats a string of rosary beads before being stripped and humped by a bunch of half-naked men.
Katy Perry, whose parents are Christian pastors, apparently takes issue with Lady Gaga’s use of religious imagery in the “Alejandro” video. The “Alejandro video features Lady Gaga performing in a latex nun’s habit with the image of a cross plastered over her groin. Katy Perry is slamming Lady Gaga over the eclectic star’s new “Alejandro” music video.
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