Lady Gaga Judas Official Music Video
A music video for the song was filmed in April 2011, co-directed by Gaga and Laurieann Gibson and co-starring Norman Reedus. It has a Biblical storyline where Reedus played Judas Iscariot and Gaga played Mary Magdalene. The video portrays them as modern day missionaries going to Jerusalem. It included the Biblical story of Judas betraying Jesus, and ended with Gaga as Magdalene getting stoned to death. Before its release, the Catholic League condemned Gaga for the use of religious imagery and her role in the video. However, the video was generally praised by critics and nominated for two awards at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards. Gaga has performed "Judas" on a number of television shows, including The Graham Norton Show, Saturday Night Live, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Good Morning America's "Summer Concert Series", and some of her concert tours, such as the Born This Way Ball, artRAVE: The ARTPOP Ball and Las Vegas residency Enigma.
Lady Gaga Judas Official Music Video
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With NME magazine Gaga revealed that the video involved motorbikes and a death sequence. She also described the portrayal of her character as being "beyond repentance", which evolved from the continuous media accusations towards her that "[she's] trashy. or pretentious or this and that. [The video] is my way of saying 'I've crossed the line, I won't even try to repent. Nor should I'."[67] Forgiveness and destiny also played a part in the video, and Gaga wanted to portray a Federico Fellini-esque story with apostles being revolutionaries in a modern-day Jerusalem. They are led to Jesus, by Gaga as Magdalene.[9] Although initially reported to be premiered during an episode of the tenth season of American Idol,[68] the music video premiered on May 5, 2011, on E! News at 7 pm.[69]
After the second chorus, in a climatic sequence, the singer holds a gun up to Judas' mouth, and a stick of red lipstick bursts out and smears his lips. The scene portrays Gaga's choice to refuse to shoot Judas through the heart. As the breakdown ends, the music stops and Gaga is seen in a bathtub with Jesus and Judas, washing their feet and cleaning it with her hair. The sequence is interspersed with Gaga standing lonely on a rock as waves engulf her, the scene being reminiscent of Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus[71] and Jesus marching towards his fatal destiny. The music restarts and Judas is shown pouring beer in the bathtub. Next Jesus is shown standing on a stage, surrounded by his supporters, the setting being inspired by scaffoldings present around newly constructed buildings in New York.[72] Gaga kneels in front of Jesus and tries to explain something to him, but he places his palm on her head as Judas looks on. After Judas delivers the fateful kiss upon Jesus' cheeks, marking him for his death, Gaga falls on the ground with a silent, anguished cry. The video ends with the death of neither Judas nor Jesus, but of Gaga as she's stoned to death by the crowd.
Before its release, the Catholic League's president William Anthony Donohue criticized the music video for its portrayal of Gaga as Mary Magdalene. He spoke exclusively to HollywoodLife.com about Gaga's focus on Judas and Mary Magdalene, calling her "increasingly irrelevant" compared to people with "real talent", and attacked her for seemingly purposefully debuting the song and video close to Holy Week and Easter.[73] Gaga noted in an interview with E! that the video was not meant to cause controversy in any way, jokingly adding "the only controversial thing about this video is that I'm wearing Christian Lacroix and Chanel in the same frame".[74] After its release, the Catholic League released a statement clarifying that they did not find the clip to be anti-Catholic, although Gaga toyed with religious iconography in it.[75]
Oscar Moralde from Slant Magazine complimented the production of the video by calling it "visually stunning", while adding that "'Judas' is the work of a repertory, not a revolutionary. It takes familiar swatches from Gaga's palette (the leather-and-chain aesthetic of "Telephone"; the plaintive, tear-stained camera stare of "Bad Romance") and puts them all together for a competently executed work."[80] Phil Fox Rose, while reviewing the video for The Washington Post, gave it a positive review stating that he found it "moving, both artistically and spiritually." He then went on to explain how the religion related accusations against Gaga were completely biased.[81] VH1 found that the video was inspired by Madonna's "Like a Prayer", the films Our Lady of the Assassins, The Wild Angels and Romeo + Juliet, and the American television series Lost.[82] NME named 'Judas' the fourth worst music video ever, describing it as "an attempt to jump on the Madonna/Catholicism bandwagon that so incredibly misjudged it's quite comical."[33]
At the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards, Gaga won the Best International Artist Video award for "Judas".[83] The song's music video also received two nominations at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, in the categories of Best Choreography and Best Art Direction;[84] however, the video won neither at the award show, losing to Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)" in Best Choreography, and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" in Best Art Direction.[85]
On April 17, 2011, Gaga performed "Judas" at a nightclub called Kennedy Lounge, in Tampa, Florida, after her Monster Ball show in the city's St. Pete Times Forum.[86] Gaga performed "Judas" live on television for the first time on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on April 28, 2011.[87] She was accompanied by a string of male dancers, wearing black monk-like garments, by her side. The song was performed as a dance-filled number, with Gaga singing the lines while wearing a blue latex ensemble. According to James Dinh from MTV, the "choreography [of the performance] seemingly more difficult than in her usual performances, the singer showcased her best high-energy moves." As the music came to a close, she struck a pose before planting a kiss on the cheek of DeGeneres, who playfully replicated her stance.[88][89] At the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Gaga sang the song for French television show Le Grand Journal. Wearing a gold-embellished ensemble, a red hood and a black-and-white hairstyle, Gaga performed an energetic version of the song accompanied by her male dancers, on a stage in front of the Mediterranean Sea. She explained to host Michel Denisot that the inspiration behind her look was the religious imagery and fashion portrayed in the "Judas" music video. "I've been wearing very romantic, very biblical arrangements, and I always throw in some punk rock for good measure," Gaga added.[90]
After weeks of buildup and pre-emptive criticism, Lady Gaga finally (spurred by leaks) released the controversial music video for her new single "Judas." And to be sure, it delivers on its promise of controversy.
The music video is of Lady Gaga performing "Judas." And guess who is playing the role of Judas in the music video? Yes, none other than Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead. Norman Reedus is even wearing a leather jacket with "Judas" on the back in the video. Could the title of tonight's Walking Dead be a clever reference to Norman Reedus' past appearance in a Lady Gaga video?
The year is 2011. Lady Gaga is mere weeks away from dropping her third studio album, Born This Way. To get her fans good and prepped for the highly anticipated release, she releases a music video for "Judas," the second single off the album. Meanwhile in 2017, Gaga's spectacular Super Bowl halftime show performance, announcement of her Joanne World Tour, and release of the "John Wayne" music video have sent fans into a tizzy. As I, a longtime fan, tried to process everything, I was sent spiraling back into some of Gaga's most iconic videos, where I made a shocking discovery. Norman Reedus, who plays Daryl on AMC's The Walking Dead, was in the "Judas" music video all those years ago. TWD, a new show at the time, had just finished its first season, and Reedus hopped on a different motorcycle for an entirely different role: as Judas himself.
The video for Lady Gaga's "Judas" hasn't even been released yet, but as we enter one of the holiest seasons of the year for both Christians and Jews, it's already drumming up anticipatory outrage. Sure, pop music -- and the music video form -- have forever been devoted to the authority-flouting themes of sex and partying (in both cases, the harder, the better), but when religion cracks the top 40, there's almost always cause for some major feather ruffling. And the promise of Gaga as Mary Magdalene and actor Norman Reedus as biblical villain Judas Iscariot doesn't exactly scream "Greatest Story Ever Told."
During the mix, which shows his selection of stitched-together, amusingly-titled soundbites ('Lady Gaga yelling I suppose'), Cummerbund also displays the music videos for each song, which during the chorus, show both artists hitting the road on devilish joyrides, which is a nice bit of synchronisation.
A 2002 Harley Davidson Sportster owned and used by Norman Reedus while playing the role of Judas in Lady Gaga's 2011 music video for "Judas." The silver-painted motorcycle has some modifications (wrapped pipes and a riser under new handlebars) and bears a "Cycle Palazzolo Design" stamp. Plate number 16K8722. The motorcycle was purchased as part of a film about the Hells Angels, but the movie was never made. Accompanied by a certificate of title stating Reedus as the registered owner.
I read on the web that Gaga says this song is a reference to some bad boyfriends she had in the past, who betrayed her or whatever, and that she believes so much in God and Jesus, and all the rest of it. But whatever truth there may be in these statements, they are clearly not the whole truth. Anyone who is truly a child of God would not make music videos that drip with sexuality and turn gospel values on their head as Lady Gaga does. 041b061a72