Singing Nun of Italy Gets Critized With her New Controversial Song

Do you still remember the singing nun who made waves in the whole world after she auditioned in The Voice Italy? For those who still don’t know, she won the 2014 season of The Voice of Italy and as a result of her triumph, she had a record deal with Universal. And on Monday, on her Vevo YouTube account, she published the video of her single in her upcoming album, a cover of famous Madonna song.

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Suor Cristina Scuccia, or more popularly known as the singing nun of Italy’s version of The Voice, is coming out with her first album next month and one of the songs include her remarkable cover of Madonna’s pop classic.

Unlike Madonna, who had exposed her petite frame under bridges and cavorting with a lion in the original video for the 1984 hit, Scuccia was also pictured in Venice for her video, but dressed with her traditional habit wearing a crucifix and refrained from reclining on boats.

In an interview with a Catholic newspaper Avvenire, the nun said, “I chose it myself. Without any desire to provoke or scandalize.”

“If you read the lyrics without being influenced by what has gone before, you discover that it is a song about the capacity of love to make people new again. To release them from their past. And this is how I wanted to interpret it. That’s why we’ve transformed it from the pop-dance track it was into a romantic ballad a bit in the style of [US singer-songwriter] Amos Lee,” Scuccia was quoted as saying.

The result, she said, was more of “a secular prayer than a pop song”.
A few of the lyrics have been modified slightly or left out entirely. For example, “Gonna give you all my love, boy” is shortened to exclude the last word.
As of writing, the music video hit more than 1.6 million views on YouTube.