| Facebook: www.facebook.com CLICK TO TWEET: clicktotweet.com Subscribe: www.youtube.com TYT Mobile: bit.ly Watch The LARGEST Online News Show at www.theyoungturks.com Follow us on Twitter twitter.com www.theyoungturks.com DISCOUNTS: revision3.com FREE Movies(!): www.netflix.com Read Ana's blog and subscribe at: www.examiner.com Read Cenk's blog and subscribe at: www.huffingtonpost.com Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video is so rife with religious imagery that you practically need a Ph.D. to understand it all. And luckily enough, we found somebody with one: Josef Sorett, a professor of religion and African-American studies at Columbia University. With everyone from director Steven Klein and Gaga's fans to Perez Hilton and Katy Perry weighing in on the clip's use of religious (mostly Catholic) images, we decided to ask Sorett for a scholar's opinion on the "Alejandro" video, to find out just what, exactly, all those crosses and rosary beads mean. "To me, this video is very much about the wedding of the spiritual and the sexual, which, to be quite honest, has been a longstanding theme in popular music, whether it be someone like Madonna or, you know, Marvin Gaye," Sorett told MTV News. "But there's also a tradition of this — using the notions of love or loss to explain the relationship between humanity and divinity — in the Catholic church that goes back much further, obviously." Sorett pointed to a key scene at the beginning of the "Alejandro" video, in which Gaga, holding a ... |
