Taking Gaga Off the Lebanese Shelves
Ashley Baxstrom: Not even a celebrity shout-out is enough to satisfy some.
The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday that Lady Gaga’s latest album Born This Way has been unofficially banned in Lebanon on the grounds that it may be “offensive to religion” in general and Christians in particular. The office of censorship said it had collected CDs and boxes full of the offending albums were reportedly stacked in Beirut police stations, though no formal ban has been announced by the government.
And all this despite the fact that the title single gives the country a shout-out. Continue Reading →