WSJ – China Realtime Report: Latest threat to Chinese culture: Lady Gaga

China’s Communist Party, it seems, isn’t into threesomes — or Lady Gaga.

China’s Ministry of Culture last week released a list of 100 banned songs (in Chinese), its third such list.

Making unsurprising appearances on the list are recent hits like Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” an homage to a drunken night of partying featuring “skinny dipping in the dark” and a “ménage à trois.” Also featured are pop sensation Lady Gaga’s “Judas,” a song that pays tribute to the biblical apostle who betrayed Jesus and has also offended its fair share of those in the West, and “Hair,” in which she sings of hoping to “die living just as free as my hair,” a concept that doesn’t exactly dovetail which Beijing’s emphasis on social harmony.

But less obvious are Owl City’s syrupy “Honey and the Bee” (“I fell in love with you, like bees to honey”), a slew of seemingly innocuous songs by the U.K.’s Take That, or the 1999 Backstreet Boys hit “I Want It That Way.” Perhaps the government just got wind of the boy band’s ballad a few months ago, when a video was posted to YouTube featuring a trio singing it in Chinese.

Others who made the list include Britney Spears, Beyonce, Canada’s Simple Plan as well as several Taiwanese, Japanese, Hong Kong and Malaysian artists.