Well, if you’re ready to believe that this was a “wardrobe malfunction” (thank you, Justin… :rolleyes: ) then you need to listen to BabaBooey’s clip…here’s the last thing the backup singers were singing just before the *big * unveiling…
"…better have her nekkid by the end of this song."
Yeah, that was an accident… :rolleyes: You did know she has a new album coming out in the spring, didn’t you? Don’t worry, I’m sure that’s gonna be mentioned a few hundred times over the next few days.
I can only hope that this is building on the Britney/Madonna kiss, and that very soon nubile pop stars will be ripping off their clothing and gyrating naked with each other in public almost daily.
The P.L.I. (People of Limited Intelligence) are going nuts on bitch radio this morning. Oh the horror! CBS and MTV are the devil incarnate! :eek:
Lets see, according to the P.L.I., griping about President Bush lying about WMD and getting 500+ soldiers killed in Iraq is just “politics as usual” but Janet Jackson’s bare boob / nipple is (hang on) the LEAD STORY on the top of the hour and half hour news breaks.
The dumbing down of America continues.
Is was not an accident, BTW. It was on TV = it was not real.
To steal a joke from an Instant Message on Imus In The Morning:
Did the nipple see it’s shadow? Will we get six more weeks of winter?
It’s strange that Fox News has a much bigger pixelilation obscuring their “coverage” of Janet’s nipple than MSNBC does. Then again they seem to trying play up the “outrage” angle more.
At least now we know the reason why CBS refused to air Moveon.org’s political commercial. They didn’t want somebody else’s controversy overshadowing their controversy the next day.
(cue music) So thank you, Mr. and/or Ms. Hypocritical CBS Executive! Truly, you are a Real Man and/or Woman of Genius™!
Oh, J.J. What happened to the sweetly shy, pretty-if-a-wee-chubby younger sister who wrapped herself right up to the neck in dark turtleneck-and pants outfits? Now thou shall dwell in the Forest of Skank… forever!
I missed it because the rest of the halftime show was so uninteresting, I got distracted by the other television showing elephants being artificially insiminated.
Looking back at all the photos and footage this morning, I don’t think I missed all that much. Over the past few years, she’s gotten increasingly unnattractive (check our her face in the picture cheddarsnax linked), and I’ve never been a big fan of fake breasts. Her reaction to it was incredibly forced and faked, Justin didn’t look a bit suprised by it, and the whole thing was just one big scam. As has been pointed out, she’s got an album coming up soon, and you know what they say…there’s not such thing as bad publicity.
MTV Plausible Deniability theory: Choreographer comes out and claims yes, JT was supposed to tear open the vinyleather outer top after that line, leaving her in a more revealing but still TV-acceptable get-up (sort of a next-step above Mick Jagger ripping off Tina Turner’s skirt at Live Aid) but because of the “wardrobe malfunction”, where something did not break along the designed dotted line, the whole Starboard Mammary Support and Protective Assembly came off.
Or at least that would be my story. This is the kind of rationalization that earns me the big bucks IRL… (That still leaves us with the not really so disturbing idea that JJ wears that nipple sunburst thing routinely.)
I guess the difference between the attention to this and the attention to Kid Rock mutilating a US flag says something about the public’s interest…
I don’t know that a boob flash will do it. I think the new standard is going to be … labial cleavage. Sooner or later someone’s gonna design a pair of hip huggers that let people see some frontal female genital cleavage. And when they do, the Super Bowl halftime will be there for it.
This picture leads me to believe that there is no underlayer of clothing. That’s the back of Janet’s S.M.S.a.P.A. we see in Justin’s hand, and the red lace is clearly just trim.
Malfunction, eh? Judging from this not-quite-as-extreme closeup, it was a snap-on bustier (Caution, not worksafe)! I’d say it performed its function perfectly. You might have a little trouble seeing the pic. Drudge’s site has been a little slow this morning. Wonder why…
So, how does this big hooha over a little boobage on TV play in Europe, I wonder?
I wonder something about the people who were actually shocked and morally outraged – would they have been more or less outraged if her nipple had been entirely bare? That is, which would they consider more obscene – a woman’s normal breast, or a woman’s breast with the nipple obscured by a fetishist piece of hardware that pierces her flesh?
I can’t answer your question there, but I realize that while I don’t want my theoretical kids seeing that show, I personally wouldn’t have any problem with them seeing a breastfeeding mother at a restaurant, a topless woman on the beach, or a documentary showing topless women from Africa or the Amazon. It’s all about the time and place.
Oh yeah, and my husband called during her performance, pre-boob, to settle an argument about Janet’s age. They all thought she looked good, but they thought she was fifty.
