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Spain: Kirchenzoff for hot video in cathedral
The rapper C. Tangana caused a “war” within the Catholic Church in Spain with a music video. Photo: Ricardo Rubio / Europapress / dpa
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Partly tight and with circling hip movements: the Spanish rapper C. Tangana and the Argentine singer Nathy Peluso cause enthusiasm – and great resentment.
A hot music video filmed in Toledo Cathedral by two Latino pop stars stirs emotions in Spain. And even causes a “war” within the Catholic Church, as the newspaper “El Mundo” writes.
Readers of the renowned newspaper spoke of a “shame” and a “provocation” in the online comments at the weekend. Church representatives said in interviews in unison: “This video offends God seriously.”
In the video for the song “Ateo” (Atheist), the Spanish rapper C. Tangana (31) and the Argentine singer Nathy Peluso (26) dance close together with sensual hip movements. The Bachata-style song, a musical genre from the Dominican Republic, had more than 3.7 million views on YouTube on Sunday afternoon just 48 hours after it was published. On the video portal, the reactions were almost all (very) positive: “A true work of art”, many wrote.
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The Archbishop of Toledo, a city southwest of Madrid, Francisco Cerro Chaves, apologized: «We humbly and sincerely apologize to all lay people, consecrated persons and priests who have rightly felt offended by this misuse of a holy place . ” He “knew nothing about this project at all”. One regrets “these events deeply” and disapproves of the pictures taken.
But the dean of Toledo Cathedral justified the approval for the shoot: The video shows the story of a conversion through human love, wrote Juan Miguel Ferrer Grenesche. The text of the song is precise, emphasizes the dean, who also quotes C. Tangana in his communiqué: “I used to be an atheist, but now I believe because a miracle like you must have come from heaven.” With the permission to shoot, they wanted to “strengthen the dialogue with contemporary culture”.
The 13th century church Catedral de Santa María de la Asunción de Toledo is the cathedral of the archbishopric. It is one of the main works of Spanish Gothic.