High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Judas" is a song by American recording artist Lady Gaga, taken from her second studio album Born This Way (2011). The song was released worldwide on April 15, 2011, four days ahead of its scheduled release, by Interscope Records. Written and produced by Lady Gaga and RedOne, "Judas" is a dance song that speaks of a woman in love with a man who betrayed her. The song also embodies all the incidents that have haunted Gaga in the past, and its core meaning refers to the negative parts of her life that she can`t escape. Gaga has further explained that the song was also about honoring one`s inner darkness in order to bring oneself into the light, explaining that "you have to look into what’s haunting you and need to learn to forgive yourself in order to move on."