It is possible that lighter makeup was applied to her breast to make it completely obvious that indeed her breast was exposed. Although, I’m an african-american woman and my breasts are at least a shade lighter than my face.
No way do I believe this was unintentional. And I must say I found it hilarious and a little erotic.
Just wanted to say I feel pretty similarly to awake’s first post.
What a pile of crap. Not saying folks who want to see that shouldn’t be able to, but I feel sad that it is being purveyed as general family entertainment.
No need to single out Janet’s boob. The crotch grabbing Nelly and P-Diddy, with their intermmittently intelligible lyrics about hookers stripping and the such. Kid Rock wearing what appears to be a ripped flag - was he supposedly honoring America, or criticizing it? Janet and Justin grinding.
Now why wouldn’t the rest of the world want to embrace such a culture?
I feel I must be doing something right. Sunday morning as I was cleaning the house, I entered eldest daughter’s room. Asked her what was on the radio and she said “FMT” (the local classical station). Then to middle child’s room. Asked him if he was listening to FMT as well, and he said, “No, that’s Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet.”
Let me hear you. I’m KID PIOTR ILYICH!
The ads sucked as well, except for (IMO) 2 from Staples. What is funnier? A dog biting a man in the crotch, a guy getting a bikini wax, a farting horse, or a breeze up the kilt? Man! My 8th grade son and his buddies come up with funnier and more intelligent scatology sitting around the table playing D&D.
Fucking crap.
At least, for a change, the game was good.
I have a daughter. If she were to do something like this simply for shock value and album sales, I would be pissed - not horrified - pissed. If she were to do something like this to make a statement about America’s prudishness (or whatever) I would be proud. I wouldn’t necessarily agree with her tactics, but I would be proud.
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake staged this thing so that they could see themselves splashed over the papers and advance their careers. That they didn’t have the guts to be honest about it speaks volumns about their total lack of integrity.
I suppose there is a moral issue here, but it has damn little to do with boobs.
It’s a crazy world when you have to go with Kid Rock as the most respectable performer at a half-time show.
It wasn’t so much that freak show that bothered me as much as the lyrics in P Dummies song…(as he constantly grabs his genitals) “I can’t stop my juices”???
These people are adults and I’m sure they know their real audience is comprised of impressionable teenagers. That’s nice.
Hopefully the trend will eventually move away from being obnoxious and calling it art. I doubt it though.
I didn’t watch. I haven’t looked up any pictures. So you can dismiss my question if you want. BUT is it possible that the “wardrobe malfunction” is legitimate? Perhaps there was supposed to be a flesh colored pasty that accidently came off with the dress. So the dress ripping would be planned, but the bare nipple not. Just a thought.
Upon further review of the play-
planned, choreographed, and WTF with that nasty looking pastie?
Looked like some kind of borg technology attached to her breast!
I posted a link to a picture in the Cafe Society thread. In that picture the back of the dress…boob cup…whatever it was that came off is visible in Justin’s hand. No flesh colored pasty, no undergarment at all.
Wow, that is EXACTLY what I thought. It looked especially like the thing that sprouted out of Picard’s face at the very beginning of “First Contact.”
I don’t think that’s how publicity works. If they admit it was on purpose, then it’s no longer a news story. As long as there is controversy, it will continue to be talked about.
Their lack of integrity is the act itself. Their lack of honesty has nothing to do with it.
To echo everyone else’s comments. Has anyone bothered to listen or watch the half time show? They lyrics and crotch grabbing was a lot worse than boob shot that lasted less than one second. Geez, this is the same network that was so proud to bring us the first butt shot on TV? (NYPD Blue) I’d rather see Janet Jackson’s boob that Dennis Franz’s ass anyday.
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The act itself is controversial no matter what the motive - or lack of motive - behind it. If anything, I see it as much more newsworthy if there was a political statement behind it instead of crass commercialism.
I just wish it had happened during a better song like, maybe, Pop Goes The Weasel.
You know, it really looks like she was wearing a ninja star. It reminds me of an old In Living Color skit where Jim Carrey played that roided up female body builder. I don’t remember it very well, but (s)he had two of ninja stars strategically placed on the chest area. He went to fight some samuri types and they were of course ripped off exposing Carrey’s giant man nipples and the hilarity ensued. I really miss that show.
In close-ups (yes, the Drudge report and several other sources have close-ups), you can see that the boustier cup was attached only with snaps. Essientially it was a tear-away cup. You’d also have to have one hell of a big pasty to cover up her big piercing jewellery (that looked like a pasty itself.)
That said, there was also red fabric underneath the leather of the cups, so perhaps the leather/vinyl was supposed to come off but not the red fabric. :dubious:
But that would be very generously giving them the benefit of the doubt. When you have a guy grinding up against your butt and then telling you he’s going to be sure you’re naked by the end of the song… It’s hard to see a “genuine accident.” Possible, yes. But hard to believe.
Doesn’t Janet Jackson have an album due out this month too?..
Kid: “Daddy, why did that man tear off the woman’s blouse?”
Daddy: “For money, son. They do anything for money”
Kid: “Oh”
Marley, you argument seems like its ok to do the stunt in front of millions for money. It seems to say, money will buy you anything, even morality, which is the issue here. Showing such images at prime tme is wrong, money or no money. And that includes the performances by P. Diddy and and Kid Rock.
I am just pointing out that the Western mode of thinking is peculiar in attaching this irrational sexual significance to the breast. There is no reason your neices can’t walk around the house topless, other than the fact that you’re all culturally conditioned to be averse to it.
In my opinion, this view of the breast is ridiculous and needs to be changed. Women can and do show off their breasts all the time, wear practically next to nothing, but as soon as part of the nipple is visible, it’s completely banned from the media. 
Women (and men) need to become more comfortable with their bodies, especially in these days of rampant anorexia and plastic surgery, and telling them that revealing part of their body has awful consequences and is morally reprehensible is not the way to do that.
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. When a picture of her breast is veiwed in the profile, the spikes clearly stick out. Now why on earth would she wear a thing like that under her clothing without intending it to be seen? I can just imagine the potential for damage if the ring somehow got turned wrong.
Probably a Breast Of… or Greatest Tits compilation.
Personally, I am outraged that Janet Jackson would deliberately show her boob to the rest of the world. If we were meant to go around flashing our boobs, we would have been born naked! oh, wait…nevermind. 
For the most part, I agree with this. I thik that North Americans tend to be far too prude when it comes to nudity, and could benefit from being less uptight about healthy displays of the human body. However, I don’t think that this would qulaify as a “positive” display of nudity.
In Ontario, Gwen Jacobs fought an “indecent exposure” law on the grounds that it discriminated. A man can walk down the street in hot summer weather, but a woman doing the same thing would get arrested. She won. Kudos to her for challenging the double-standard. And there have since been women swimming topless in public pools, comfortable in their own toplessless and not feeling that revealing their breasts is “dirty”. This is a good thing.
But something to consider in this case. It’s not so much that Janet Jackson exposed herself… She didn’t exactly flash the crowd, her clothing was torn from her. What was (presumably) choreographed was a scenario in which a man tore her clothes off of her and “consent” was very ambiguously depicted.
Now clearly, if it was planned, once can assume she in fact did have some say in the stunt, but nontheless, the theatrics of it was set up in a way that I would not consider to be “healthy nudity.” It was a guy aggressively ripping the clothes from a woman he’d been dry humping moments before and who didn’t appear to explicitly be in on it (though she likely was).
Me ripping my own shirt off – say like American soccer player Brandi Chastian who tore off her own shirt when her team won the World Cup – is quite a different scenario than say, a guy flirting with me on the dance floor then ripping my shirt off me unexpectedly without consent.
I think the stunt was crass, but ultimately I don’t think it will be corrupting young minds (crap on MTV is far worse). Nonetheless, I don’t think it was a “healthy” way of revealing someone’s body either.
I still say, “blame the organizers!” There was no reason to think that the likes of P. Diddy, Janet Jackson, and Kid Rock would be anything but over-the-top. They all go for shock value amongst their wilder followers. Of course they’re going to get the geezers and “citizens” riled up with their boorish behavior.
The tit was the least offensive of the whole show (though, as I said before, I didn’t see it). They ought to be reaming the guy who hired these acts.