PREACH IT! And the Lady Gaga Telephone spoofing trend officially ends ... now

Enough with the “Telephone”. We’ve had the original video, the homage from our boys in Afghanistan, the all-chicken interpretation and a dude who swapped out the communication hardware with tropical fruit.

All of those were, to be fair, kind of cute. A few were even funny at the time. But now the self-serving famewhore section of the evangelical Christian movement has jumped in. Which means the whole thing has jumped the shark.

The details involve Megan Phelps, of course, granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred. She has rewritten the words and recorded the song as “Ever Burn” -- as in, in hell.

“Stop prayin', stop prayin', God will not hear you anymore, you taught the boys and the girls to be proud whores," Phelps sort-of sings. You can hear the whole God-forsaken mess here.

Phelps, apparently quite fond of the word “whore,” has used it to skewer Gaga before. Behold, her take on Poker Face, but be warned: It’s anything but holy.

We can’t decide which is sadder about Phelps’ ploy: the whole, tired, god-hates-you angle, or the fact that she’s spreading her desperate message through what is, arguably -- nay, officially -- the most shopworn gag of 2010.

--Leslie Gornstein

Photo: Lady Gaga in concert at Carnegie Hall. Credit: Kevin Kane / Getty Images

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Comments

[qwerty]

Religious groups can screw off, they are teaching boys and girls to be plain, uninspired, and ashamed of their sexuality. How many more people will have to live in fear of being chastised before the church realizes that people living in fear of being condemned by society is not a just world. It doesn't make us any closer to god, and certainly is not a good thing to do. So if that's what you want to call it, then I'll be the proudest whore you will ever find, because I love Gaga, and am proud of it.

[Jerry Fullerton]

Anti-religious nut jobs can screw off; no one lives in fear based solely on what they learn in church. People like Qwerty live in fear because they know they will never understand how faith works. By the way dumb$ass, you can still go to church and be a Gaga fan. What a loser!

[nickk sansone]

religious people that hate...to me are not real religious people. God does not hate so why are you??? Lady gaga is an amazing person who is very religious and i know this beacuse she is my best friend and has been forever!!! so before all you low imature people want to talk about someone you dont even know anything about and only think you do , do to your ignorance. you need to think twice (: God frowns opon hate! (: MWahh Love you Gaga!!! <3

loe=ve nickk Xx