Nipplegate Strikes Again at 2017 Super Bowl

On February 1, 2004, Janet Jackson, so 38-years-one-time, and Justin Timberlake, then 23-years-old, caused a wake of mass cultural hysteria when, at the end of Jackson'due south Super Bowl Halftime performance, Timberlake fabricated a surprise appearance to duet "Rock Your Torso." At the stop, Timberlake tore off a piece of Jackson'southward black Alexander McQueen dress, revealing her right breast with the nipple covered by a starbust-shaped shield. CBS broadcasters cut to an aerial view of the stadium later on nine/sixteen of a 2d, simply equally far as the FCC and family-oriented audience of 143 million viewers was concerned, the impairment was done.

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Now, 13 years later, Timberlake is set to accept the Super Bowl Halftime stage once over again, this fourth dimension sans Jackson and promising "the wardrobe matter won't happen." Simply questions and legitimate concerns over the NFL's choice—specially in a highly sensitive cultural climate where breaking accusations and allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct from major players in the entertainment industry, well-nigh notably Neb O'Reilly and Harvey Weinstein, are being unearthed hourly—nonetheless abound, mainly because of the proceeding, controversial fall out from what's now known as "nipplegate."

And so what exactly happened afterwards that fateful "wardrobe malfunction"?

Immediately post-obit the "incident," MTV and Viacom, the channel producing the Halftime Show at the time, published a statement apologizing for such indecent exposure, explaining that, "The vehement of Janet Jackson's costume was unrehearsed, unplanned, completely unintentional and was inconsistent with assurances nosotros had about the content of the operation."

While at first the narrative was that this was a publicity stunt gone awry, equally talk and severity of the incident grew, so did the explanations. "Justin was supposed to pull away the rubber bustier to reveal a red lace bra. The garment complanate and her breast was accidentally revealed," Jackson'due south publicist said in a argument, while CBS placed responsibility on Jackson and Timberlake, stating that "we all attended rehearsals and there was no indication that something like this would happen." The FCC even took CBS and Viacom all the way to the Supreme Court in FCC v. CBS Corp., demanding the $550,000 fine for indecent exposure on live television be reinstated based off the incident, which Michael Powell, and so President of the FCC, described as "a new low for primetime television."

While Timberlake, the ane who actually committed the physical act of exposing Jackson, skirted under the radar with a quick statement to Access Hollywood ("hey man, we beloved giving yous all something to talk about," he said) Jackson was fabricated a public example of; the new millennium's mod witch put on trial.

On the Mon after the incident at Super Bowl Lord's day, CBS had Jackson release a written statement apologizing, taking total blame for what they were at present calling an unfortunate "accident". "The determination to take a costume reveal at the cease of my halftime show performance was made later on terminal rehearsals. MTV was completely unaware of information technology. Information technology was not my intention that it go as far equally it did. I apologize to anyone offended – including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL." Then on Tuesday, the networks asked Jackson to tape and release a video amends, reiteratingherdetermination to change upward the functioning.

"My decision to alter the Super Bowl performance was made after the last rehearsal," Jackson said in her televised statement. "MTV, CBS, [and] the NFL had no knowledge of this any and unfortunately, the whole thing went wrong in the cease. I am really distressing if I offended anyone, that was truly not my intention."

Merely the public shaming of Jackson—to which the singer herself told United states Today was "truly embarrassing"—didn't stop. The Grammy'southward were the following calendar week, which both Timberlake and Jackson were scheduled to nowadays and perform at, but Jackson was outright banned from the event, despite previous assurances from the Academy that both would attend, saying "there's such a big departure…to putting a stage on Astroturf than an advent at the Grammys." Timberlake, on the other hand, attended and was allowed to perform. Articulate Channel Communications, which owned Infinity Broadcasting and Viacom (MTV and CBS), blacklisted all of Jackson'southward singles and music videos, banning her music from all the Boob tube channels and radio stations the company endemic, stifling airplay and making her new anthology,Damita Jo, her lowest-selling album since 1984. The disgraced singer was forced to resign from a fix motion picture deal she had merely signed, and fifty-fifty a statue of Mickey Mouse wearing Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" costume was dismantled post-obit continued backlash. In an attempt to break the rut of abiding bashing, Jackson went on SNL, mocking the entire state of affairs.

At the time of the incident, America was in a cultural war of sorts (in addition to actually beingness in 2 young wars, Transitional islamic state of afghanistan and Republic of iraq, too), fighting between the Start Amendment principle of liberty of speech and the desire to protect the minds of its youth. In 2003 news networks aired live the very commencement bombing of Baghdad, initiating round-the-clock, in-your-face media coverage that would make the Republic of iraq State of war the most-watched state of war in homo history. Howard Stern's radio show was one of the most popular shows on traditional network air and the Real World, with its Jacuzzis and naked 3-ways, was MTV'southward claim to fame. In response, the Parents Television Council partnered with the FCC to crack down drastically on the battle between smut and wholesome viewing, airing censored versions of the motion-picture show Saving Private Ryan so there was no war scene and fining networks left and correct for the use of "obscene language" and indecent exposure, which (shockingly) included instances similar when Fox ran a rerun of Family Guy and showed Stewie, the cartoon grapheme'due south, naked barrel. And then Jackson's bare boob? Yeah, that caused an uproar, and was, as many accept argued, the perfect opening for the FCC to pounce with merely light objection (Jackson's exposure received 540,000 complaints filed to the FCC), ready restore morality and a sense of order to American pop culture and boob tube.

As well unfortunately for Jackson, the tech boom was blowing up, causing "Janet Jackson" to become the most Googled search term in history (it even made the Guinness Book of World Records in 2006). The incident allegedly inspired the thought for YouTube (Jawed Karim one time said he founded YouTube out of "frustration" that he couldn't find the performance clip), was the catalyst for Howard Stern switching to FCC-gratuitous satellite radio, despite the platform having very few listeners at the time. To this 24-hour interval, the incident is still considered 1 of the nearly controversial moment on television to appointment.

Timberlake'due south solo career, on the other hand—he had merely left *NSYNC in 2002—really took off. At the same 2004 Grammy's, Timberlake was nicknamed "the Teflon homo," and a whole two years afterwards, in 2006, finally issued a formal apology (of sorts) on MTV while promoting his album Futurity Sex/Love Sounds. "In my honest opinion now, I could've handled information technology amend," Timberlake said of the incident. "I'm part of a community that consider themselves artists. And if there was something I could have done in her defense that was more than than I realized then, I would have. But the other one-half of me was like, 'Wow. We still oasis't found the weapons of mass destruction and everybody cares nigh this!'" Calculation, "I probably got ten percent of the blame, and that says something about guild. I call up that America'south harsher on women. And I think that America is, you know, unfairly harsh on ethnic people."

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