Nathy Peluso: Spanish archbishop apologizes for racy music video filmed in Gothic cathedral
The video, launched Thursday, exhibits C. Tangana and Peluso grinding towards one another and dancing the bachata type within the cathedral and contains close-ups of the art work featured on the cathedral’s partitions.
“We humbly and sincerely say sorry from all of the lay trustworthy, the consecrated and the clergymen, who’ve felt rightly damage by this improper use of a sacred place,” the assertion added.
The music’s lyrics embrace a refrain of “I used to be an atheist, however now I imagine, as a result of a miracle like you will need to have come down from heaven,” whereas the primary verse asks forgiveness from the Virgin of Almudena for “what I do in your mattress.”
Elsewhere within the video, a unadorned and partially pixelated Peluso is proven holding Tangana’s decapitated head, and on the finish of the music, the 2 singers pose for a photograph with clergymen and choirboys exterior the cathedral.
Tangana additionally pulls on Peluso’s hair in an echo of one of many work contained in the cathedral, which exhibits a demon pulling a girl’s hair to cease her reaching salvation on the Final Judgment. The portray can also be used because the music’s art work.
Arguing the music “tells the story of a conversion by way of human love,” Dean Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche mentioned the video’s remaining scenes the place the singers pose for a photograph confirmed the “understanding and welcoming of the Church.”
Though he acknowledged the “provocative visible language” used, he defended the choice to permit filming within the cathedral, saying the “sole goal has been to spice up dialogue with up to date tradition whereas preserving religion within the Church.”
Ferrer additional mentioned the music may “do good for these distanced from the Church” however apologized to those that had been damage by it.
As of Saturday, the music video had greater than 2 million views on YouTube.
