[VIDEO] Folk Singer Performs Song about Lady Gaga
Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 12.20.2011
And taking aim at the Westboro Baptist Church...
Lady Gaga may not have a big fan in the Westboro Baptist Church, but folk singer Cheryl Wheeler likes her. Billboard reports that Wheeler has penned a song about the notoriously anti-gay church's targeting of Gaga titled "Lady Gaga's Singing Program."
"This song came about as a result of something I read on Huffington Post," said Wheeler during a concert on December 10th in Scituate, Mass. "It was a story about the Westboro Baptist Church people ... hideous creatures. Those people were at a Lady Gaga concert, they were there protesting, of course, and, there was a quote in the article from one of the Westboro Baptist Church people (about) 'Lady Gaga's less-than-beautiful singing program.' (It's) just hilarious. We get the idea you haven't been to any shows lately. We don't really call them singing programs anymore. We haven't since ... the 1830s."
She added, "When I read it, I was like, 'Now I have to write a song called 'Lady Gaga's Singing Program.' I mean, how do you not do that?! But, I wanted to write it from the viewpoint of the Westboro Baptist Church," Wheeler said. "Their main message is that God hates everything. Certainly has changed from when I was a kid."
Church member Rebekah Phelps-Roper has tweeted about the song, saying:
I *adore* Cheryl Wheeler's @LadyGaga song #SoCatchy
