Lady Gaga means to "celebrate faith" in her new Judas video

USA TODAY
By Ann Oldenburg

Gaga's as a swaggering Mary Magdalene biker chick
opposite actor & rapper Rick Gonzales' smoldering Jesus.

NEW YORK - Lady Gaga's new controversial video for Judas, her second single from her May 23 album, Born This Way, has arrived. In it, Gaga stars as Mary Magdalene leading a motorcycle gang on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Gaga explained last week to MSN that "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. Her goal, she says, is to show that "forgiveness and betrayal are hand in hand ... video puts destiny above all things and postures that the mistakes in your life are in fact not mistakes at all, they are just part of your overarching potential and your destiny." And, she said, "It's meant more to celebrate faith than it is to challenge it."[link]