#1004. Feeling like you should write a blog post about Lady Gaga’s song, Judas, but not knowing how to.

Sometimes people ask me how I come up with ideas for Stuff Christians Like. Here is the thought process I recently went through as I debated whether to write about Lady Gaga:

1. Should I write about Lady Gaga’s new song “Judas”

2. Maybe not, approximately 0 of my friends asked me this year to help them with a protest of Lady Gaga’s “Judas.” And no one sent me online petitions trying to get the song taken off the radio.

3. Are we mad about that song? It doesn’t seem like it.

4. Hooray! We’ve chilled out on stuff like that.

5. Wait, is that a bad thing? Is that a sign of our generation’s weakening faith and refusal to take a stand for the supremacy and majesty of God?

6. Yikes, that’s a big conclusion to jump to based on a song.

7. If I write about it, I better watch the video first so I can really speak to it.

8. But not at work.

9. And probably not at home.

10. Is there a TBS version of the video I can watch, like when they edit episodes of Sex and the City? And is it even out? Did they leak it or release it? Is it debuting on American Idol? What about the Voice? This is all really confusing.

11. But as a Christian blogger, as someone sometimes relevant, should I write about the song? Is that something I should be concerned about or interested in? Did poultry farmers feel compelled to blog about her coming out of an egg at the Grammy’s? I know Pioneer Woman is a farmer, did she or her husband Marlboro Man briefly consider addressing the use of the egg as a vehicle with a blog post? Hard to say.

12. Speaking of eggs, better stock up on Cadbury Crème Eggs this week. This is the week they migrate back to whatever delicious corner of the earth they spend the Summer, Fall and Winter at.

13. Maybe I could do a Serious Wednesday post about praying for pop stars. On the one hand, I get the strain people like Lady Gaga are under. A lot of pop music is about one upping the next person, about doing something louder/brighter/more shocking than the other person. And the more you keep doing that, the louder the noise gets and the harder it is to be shocking next time. So in order to cause a stir you have write songs about shocking topics or figures like Judas.

14. That would be a weird Serious Wednesday, let’s not do that.

15. I need to tell people that the secret when stockpiling Cadbury Crème Eggs is to heat them in the microwave for 5.2 seconds when you eat them in the fall and they’re kind of old. The microwave brings them back to life. Is there a Lady Gaga egg vs. Cadbury Crème Egg mashup possible?

16. Let’s do a little research. Let’s google reactions. Hmm, World Horseshoe Championships. Nope, not what I am looking for although I would dominate. Here we go, one news site said Gaga’s creative director, is “a religious Christian…” Uh oh, what does that mean? A “religious Christian?” I thought we were distancing ourselves from the R word because some people think it has negative connotations.

17. What is Lady Gaga’s camp saying about the song. OK, here’s one quote: the song is about “inspiration and to never give up… We’ve created a new Jerusalem.”

18. Whoa, what does that mean, they’ve created a “new Jerusalem?” I thought it was just a song and a video.

19. Yeah, but that quote could be out of context, who knows what was in the “…” and people say wild things in the moment. Remember when you told that radio host, “I’ll sign copies of my book as Francis Chan since I’m not famous and he’s really kind hearted and he won’t mind?” That joke bombed. That was a crazy thing to say. Careful about sound bites.

20. But they did release news about the video around Easter for the biggest possible shock value. They knew what they were doing with the marketing. Maybe the quote wasn’t out of context. And aren’t I the one who wrote a post titled “Wishing there was a Christian version of Lady Gaga?” Am I being a hypocrite or missing the metaphor within a metaphor within the metaphor and what if this is actually a song about repentance and being broken?

21. I should definitely not write about Lady Gaga’s song Judas. Or I definitely should. It’s one of those two.

I went around and around like that for a week, debating whether I should write about it. Until at last, I trusted my old friend, the list. And I wrote this.

But what about you, did you and your friends talk about the Lady Gaga song “Judas?”