Why did Lady Gaga call her song "John Wayne" when he was racist?

[Chromatic 12,177]

6 minutes ago, Dayum said:

Does this logic also apply to Hitler supporters? 

Hitler supporters admire and look up to Hitler's agenda and actions. Gaga uses John Wayne as a symbol for something, as an adjective, to describe a certain type of man. A bad boy - nothing else.

[Sunny 12,736]

lmao this is too much

[ryanripley 86,575]

39 minutes ago, Dayum said:

Does this logic also apply to Hitler supporters? 

what kind of ridiculousness

[MaryJaneHolland 77,348]

It's not like the song is an ode to him, it's just a metaphor for country boy/cowboy, ig 

[prase 0]

1. john - a prostitute's client.

2. wayne - from an Old English word meaning “wagonmaker.”

 

He's basically a g.u.y, the game-changer in cultural and artistic sense, to be and/or aspire to be. 

[Phoebe Buffay 12,525]

On 11/28/2017 at 12:12 AM, River said:

This is why she sings "I crave a real white man"

Wait, isn't it 'I crave a real wild man' ?

[River 116,700]

3 minutes ago, EvilRegal said:

Wait, isn't it 'I crave a real wild man' ?

 

Regina/Evil Queen/Roni/whatever is your name, it's a joke

[Ronk 14,762]

John Wayne, at this point, is mostly just an image of the big, tough man from the American western movies in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.  At that time, Native Americans were viewed as the bad guys, not just in the movies, but by much of the public as well.  As an example of how badly Native Americans were perceived, in the 1956 movie The Searchers, John Wayne's character scalped a Native American, and that was acceptable.  Then John Wayne's character tried to kill his own niece because after being kidnapped she had lived too long with the Native Americans and had become like one of them.   The director, John Ford, was not supporting racism, but he was depicting it as it was carried out in those times.

Growing up in the '50s, kids regularly played "cowboys and Indians" outside with cap guns.  The idea was to kill the Indians because, again, they were the bad guys.  John Wayne, the person, is a product of those times and a cultural view people had about Native Americans.  In this short clip from that movie, John Wayne is the man wearing an orange shirt and a black hat. 

 

[LordEnigma 11,313]

It’s talking about falling in love with a bad boy... she never mentions he was a good boy or good for anyone 

[Illuminati 15,921]

Why did she name a song Judas if he betrayed Jesus