Hi my name is Jason and I watch too much trash TV. I know that I really should be spending more time in prayer and deepening my spiritual life. Unfortunately more often then not the spare time I do have usually consist of watching an hour or so of mindless TV. That being said I try to find God wherever I can, that’s where Glee and Lady Gaga come in.
Recently we’ve been going through our DVR and catching up on all of our shows. A recent episode of Glee focused on each of the different character’s flaws or things they wished that they could change about themselves. This all culminated in the kids singing Lady Gaga’s anthem “Born This Way”. Now you might be asking yourself what could this possible have to do with God or the Catholic Church? My answer is everything!
Now admittedly I’m not the target audience for any of this, but I’ve noticed that the underlying theme across almost every episode of Glee and most of Lady Gaga’s songs is acceptance. I also remember what it was like being a teenager and that longing for acceptance. Pop culture today is filled with the message of self-love, but self-love in a selfish way. The following is a quote from The Guardian in a recent interview with Lady Gaga:
Lady Gaga refers to her recent Monster Ball tour as “a religious experience”, becoming for many, an alternative to organized faith. But she goes on to clarify, “it’s more like a pop cultural church”…Yet she insists: “It’s more self-worship, I think, not of me. I’m teaching people to worship themselves.”
