(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Lady Gaga says her Judas promo is an aggressive metaphor.
The eccentric pop songstress is releasing the video to her controversial track next week, when it will premiere during American Idol. The song has already sparked outrage amongst Catholic leaders, as Gaga sings that she is in love with Judas, the traitor who betrayed Jesus Christ.
The singer insists the promo expresses the difference between good and evil and is a metaphor her fans will be able to connect with.
"Someone once said to me, '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," she told MSN Entertainment in Canada. "I just like really aggressive metaphors - harder, thicker, and darker - and my fans do as well. So it is a very challenging and aggressive metaphor, but it is a metaphor."
Lady Gaga, 25, wanted to embrace and celebrate faith rather than upset the balance. The global superstar admits the video has biblical references, but says she wanted to embrace them, rather than challenge them.
"The theme of the video and the way that I wanted to aesthetically portray the story was as a motorcycle Fellini movie, where the apostles are revolutionaries in a modern-day Jerusalem, she revealed. And I play Mary Magdalene, leading them into the town where we meet Jesus, and I will leave the rest for you to see."
The talented musician, who co-directed the video with Laurieann Gibson, says the video is about pop culture more than anything religiously-related and explores the greater issues that are currently going on in the world.
"In a lot of ways it's about faith and hope, but not in the religious sense. It's about faith and hope in culture, especially in a time all over the world where many are in need of hope, in need of understanding, in need of love, in need of lack of prejudice, in need of no judgment, in need of acceptance, she added. (C) Cover Media