# Janet Jackson's boob fell out of her costume! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 2, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117 "2004-02-02T01:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/81 "2004-02-02T22:25:59Z")
> [@Lando Griffin](#): > > Huh. And the whole time I was just going under the assumption that Janet was Michael’s weekend alter-ego. Couldn’t be. Janet has a deeper voice. ---
**Author:** ![NajaNivea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NajaNivea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NajaNivea)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/82 "2004-02-03T00:13:15Z")
> [@Papaveraceae](#): > > I think it was intentional, and what some think is a pasty was in fact a nipple clamp/ring. > > It looks to me as if the ornament itself tightly clamps around the nipple, with the spikes around the outside of it. In the Drudge Report close-up, it’s pretty easy to see it’s a piercing. The jewelry itself is called a [nipple shield](http://www.ringsofdesire.com/shields.html), it attaches to a horizontal bar running through her nipple. I think, although I could be wrong about this, that the shield is a separate piece of jewelry that sits behind the horizontal bar. ~mixie ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/83 "2004-02-03T00:53:39Z")
> [@MixieArmadillo](#): > > In the Drudge Report close-up, it’s pretty easy to see it’s a piercing. The jewelry itself is called a [nipple shield](http://www.ringsofdesire.com/shields.html), it attaches to a horizontal bar running through her nipple. I think, although I could be wrong about this, that the shield is a separate piece of jewelry that sits behind the horizontal bar. The Drudge Report close-up gave me psychosomatic purple-nurple sympathy pains… _…whoozy_ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/84 "2004-02-03T02:54:13Z")
> [@](#): > > Already happening in Canada, however. Where? No-one alerted _me_ about it… I mean, yes it’s legal and all, but very few women take advantage of it. Can’t think why. [sub]_In other news, Saskatchewan rebounded form its -40C lows this week…_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/85 "2004-02-03T04:30:55Z")
I’ve got to agree that the breast itself doesn’t bother me, but the implicit message of the song and act, which is that it’s okay to tear a woman’s clothes off in public/get at her sexually seems like a real throwback to me. I also could havedone without the prior grinding, crotch-grabbing, flag-wearing, meth and sex lyrics of the prior entertainment. It didn’t seem like an appropriate venue to me, in terms of this cuture’s standards and mores. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/86 "2004-02-03T04:35:11Z")
What **Shoshana** and **Eats\_Crayons** said. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/87 "2004-02-03T13:03:54Z")
So… Jackson, who at least is mature enough to own up to the stunt, is saying that the tear away was planned but that it was supposed to leave behind the red lace material. There are not enough :dubious: for me to safely add without taxing the hamsters. However, I did work on a show where a dancer came very, damn close to exposing herself to the entire audience when her costume really did malfunction (of course it never had to happen during rehearsal, only in front of a packed house) – so okay, it’s plausibe that it was supposed to be a lesser level of crass. Still crass, but not enraged-FCC crass. However, what is grade “A” annoying?.. Dunno about anywhere else, but on our news it was suddenly Janet Jackson’s fault. Barely any mention of Timberlake at all. “…Janet Jackson exposed herself…” “…Janet Jackson has _almost_ bared all in the press before…” “…Has Janet Jackson gone too far this time?..” Uh, hellooooo! There were _TWO_ stupid popstars in on this stunt, remember? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/88 "2004-02-03T23:24:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not charging that this will lead to rape, etc. Just more people emulating it in the future. > > Try imagining it was your daughter who had her shirt ripped off in front of millions of people. Then maybe you’ll see where I’m coming from on this. Awake makes a valid point. How many young women have thought that headlining at the Superbowl halftime show was just innocent fun, only to end up having their breasts exposed by a former boy band popstar? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117/89 "2004-02-04T00:04:06Z")
Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is, really. As far as I’m concerned I just wish it was somebody else’s breast. I can’t even look at Janet anymore without seeing Michael’s face on her body. _ **Whimper.** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/janet-jacksons-boob-fell-out-of-her-costume/227117.md?page=4)