Friday, May 6, 2011

New music: Lady Gaga ? Judas

It may not be as controversial as her previous efforts, but that doesn't stop the latest Gaga video from being brilliantly barmy

With typical understatement and modesty, Lady Gaga has described the video for her new single as "a motorcycle Fellini movie where the apostles are revolutionaries in a modern-day Jerusalem" ? and she plays Mary Magdalene. Ever since the title of the single was announced a few months ago, the hype machine has pumped myths and speculation about the video: that it would be the most controversial video of all time, that it cost more than $10m to make, that it was her huge and damning religious statement. When it was announced that the video had been co-directed by Gaga, the alarm bells that had already started ringing following the Born This Way/Express Yourself debacle got even louder. Given the underwhelming start to the campaign for Gaga's new album ? Born This Way missed out on the UK No 1 spot, Judas has fallen out of the UK top 20 after just three weeks and has underperformed in America ? it was little surprise when this highly anticipated new video leaked a day before its premiere, and Judas's even status was undermined.

So what's it like? Fairly sedate, all things considered. The video opens with Gaga and the apostles driving on the motorway with the singer draped across "Jesus" (we know it's him because he's wearing a gold-plated crown of thorns), but from there it's a fairly straightforward dance video intercut with close-ups of Gaga singing to camera (a la Bad Romance) and a brilliantly barmy scene involving a golden gun that's actually a lipstick. This being Gaga, there's also a bit that bears no relation to the rest of the video, this time involving a wave knocking the singer off a rock. In many ways, the fact that Judas isn't particularly "controversial" and doesn't get weighed down by its own importance means that it's actually much more enjoyable as a music video.


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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/may/06/lady-gaga-judas

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