Janet Jackson Apologizes for (Deliberately) Bared Breast

[rocktivity]

From The (Northwest Indiana) Times Online:

NEW YORK - Janet Jackson apologized Monday for an incident in which one of her breasts was bared for a moment as she sang with Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday night.
In a statement released Monday night, Jackson said it was a last-minute stunt that went awry.

"The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals. MTV was completely unaware of it," Jackson said. "It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended _ including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL..."

So it WAS deliberate! But I don't know why she's trying to let MTV off the hook since they hinted that something "shocking" would happen--oh yeah, she has a new album coming out. Anyway, congrats, DU--we've pre-emptively struck again!!!


rocknation

P.S. I wonder what all this publicity is costing Super Bowl quarterback Tom Brady in endorsements?

[codegreen]

1. should have kept going

if it WAS deliberate, at least they could have been more cool about it.

she instantly covered herself; they should have kept performing like nothing happened and made the stations cut away or what have you.

[LiberalFighter]

12. That would had caused a delay and a lot more hizzy

[formernaderite]

15. she owes me an apology....I certainly didn't want to see her ....

...saggy booby and it's accompanying nipple piercing. There are definitely alot of breasts that would have been nicer to look at ;)
Then again, I'm over the hill, but so is Janet...kind of felt weird watching her perform like it's 1980- something...

[otohara]

17. Wish I Had Her Breasts

She's a beautiful, talented woman with an amazing body. I know some 20 somethings who will love to have Janet Jackson's entire figure.

there's boobs, and then there's those other boobs

[freestatevet]

44. You CAN have them

It's called implants.

[SemperEadem]

45. So? That's alright.. they still look natural on her

[freestatevet]

50. Are you kidding?

Not from what I saw. Anyway, I was telling the other poster that she could have them as well!

[piece sine]

2. Brady's about to marry a movie star

he'll be on every cover, regardless....

Janet "Miss Jackson, if you're nasty..." always stirs-up trouble to suit herself. But she's arguably the most talented of all in the wild and crazy family. I hope this doesn't capsize my favorite Jackson's career.

Janet's spotlight-management is second to none. Beyonce in a tight white suit singing the national anthem in daylight was far more memorable celebrity performance moment, but it's already forgotten.


Tom Brady will enjoy so many more spotlights, he'd be class act if he chose not to overmilk this one.

[Alpharetta]

3. CBS paid her to do that

She took the rap.

CBS gets to point the finger at J.J.

So nobody's going to ask CBS whether they had a 5 second delay for the rap singers?

CBS comes out of this like a rose.

[Straight Shooter]

4. Yes, I'm sooo sorry everybody saw my tasseled triumph

Come on, Janet. Were you wearing a tassel on the other breast, the one still covered?

BTW, girl, my compliments to Dow Corning. Great advertisement for their implants.

[kiahzero]

6. It was a piercing

You don't take piercings out... the holes seal up.

[windansea]

8. nope..it was a borg implant

http://www.kgb.com/2004_02_01_kgbreparchive.shtml#107572270244174896

[edbermac]

21. She IS a Borg!!

Resistance is futile...

:evilgrin:

[pfitz59]

20. Looked real to me!

No pasty either. Some sort of starburst nipply thing!

[ixion]

5. it wasn't even a truly bare breast

she had a pastie on. People are getting all worked up about this for nothing, IMO.

[Maddy McCall]

26. O yes it was

It was bare, nipple and all. What looked like a pastie was actually a big nipple ring.

[UpInArms]

7. wonder what it will look

like when gravity sets in <shrug>

[qwertyMike]

9. Why the American obsession with breasts?

Piece of fat with a brown thing on the end.

Thank you Hugh Hefner.

We Europeans prefer the small titties, not those flabby stretch-marked thingies.

Well I'm Irish - but it is a part of Yurp.

Amd we don't have tits in Ireland thanks to the RC church.

So there!

Mike

[aquart]

18. You have them. They may frighten you, but you have them.

Got milk?

[0rganism]

22. It's the bottle feedings, I'm almost sure of it

Hell, there was a movement afoot in the '50s to do away with breast feeding altogether. When you have a whole generation of Americans raised on bottled formula, it's no wonder breasts are so damn erotic.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

24. What? Explain Samantha Fox and the other "page 3" girls then!

Give me a break...

[libview]

33. we love boobies......we love boobies........

[question everything]

10. And what about all the ads for viagra etc?

Someone said that he was embarrassed watching the games and having his young daughter asking what those ads were promoting.

[BiggJawn]

11. For all the flaccid fundies who got upset over the JackoTit.

They knew a lot of Limbots would be watching, and that't their target audience.

Da Ditka sez: "Get back in the Game!"
Yo Mike, send me the missus. I'll show her some "game" without the pills....

[joeunderdog]

13. Fewer men would have ED if Janet did more halftimes.

Biggest ridiculous story of the week. Don't worry about the White House stuttering about the lack of WMD's. No big deal. Just war.

Keep flashin for the Prez Janet!

[Chovexani]

47. LOL!

Boobies of mass distraction, I say. Although they are very lovely. :evilgrin: I don't accept Janet's apology, I don't think she needed to give one: you go girl, ignore the haters. I'll be first in line for your album. I promise I'll actually buy it instead of downloading it! :).

Well DU, there's a silver lining to all this: if we want an investigation, now we know how: just flash a boob! Maybe Michael Moore should buy some air time, he could tear off Randi Rhodes' top and demand a real 9/11 investigation. It could work, you never know!

--Ms. Chovexani, if you're nasty :crazy:

[Yavin4]

14. Of Course It Was Deliberate

If it wasn't, she would have hit him.

[yellowcanine]

16. We don't care, janet, we really don't

If you want to show off your boob, who really gives a shit, anyway? Just shut up about it already.

[gauguin57]

19. who gives a rat's patootie?

Yeah, it wasn't the coolest thing to be showing on TV. But as one of the commentators said on tonight's "Nightline," the whole Super Bowl event has been getting skankier every year -- a bunch of drunk guys sitting around in a bar, falling off their stools, belching and talking nasty, driving drunk ... then (as they did in Boston) rioting, attacking the police and running people over. Bunch of drunk, disgusting, testosterone-poisoned idiots.

And the commercials push the envelope more every year, as well. The farting horse? Yuk.

So ... Janet showing a bit of titty on TV is somehow some big shocking thing against THAT backdrop? Spare me the righteous indignation. I'd rather let young people see a flash of boob than all those violent, drunken BOOBS running around Boston!

FCC ... why don't you get your mind outta the gutter and spend your time YET AGAIN rewriting the rules about media ownership, so independent voices can actually be raised against the fascist status quo in communities across the nation?!?!

[Maddy McCall]

31. Yes...poor victims, the Jacksons

wah wah wah.

It was nothing more than a staged even to boost her career and, for Timberlake, an opportunity to upstage his ex.

[regnaD kciN]

23. No, it wasn't deliberate...

...the "costume reveal" she is talking about was to have him pull off the leather part of her costume, revealing the red lingerie underneath. Apparently, Justin got "carried away" and tore off the lingerie as well.

[Maddy McCall]

27. I don't believe that...it takes a huge effort to tear the cup out of a

lace bra.

The leather cup and the lace cup HAD to be break-away, or the lace cup would have stayed intact.

[Tinoire]

28. No it doesn't... Have you never had a clasp or embroidered rose

let go? I don't know what size breasts you're used to but take it from a buxom woman, if anything up front lets go, that's all she wrote- the whole thing goes- especially if I'm moving and that Janet was certainly doing.

Also, I see no mention of a cup. Just of red lace. Probably the Victoria's Secret kind. I think Janet's surgeon must have made sure she didn't need a cup to hold anything up.

On edit: The woman is not stupid. Her brother is on charges for pederasty. The last thing she would do, imo, is bring even more unwanted notoriety to her family during this extremely painful time for them.

Do you see how shocked she looks? Janet Jackson is too classy for that type of an idiotic stunt.

[Maddy McCall]

30. What she had on was NOT an ordinary bra

The lace inset was a part of the leather cup, which was snapped into place.

If Justin tore away the leather, the suit was designed so that the lace came off with the leather. If he would have *accidently* ripped her red bra, some remnant of red fabric would be left hanging, and there was none. The red lace/black leather were stitched together in a unit--a single cup.

Here is a better photo. Look in his hand. Look closely--you can see that the leather and lace are both part of a single cup.



I can't guess Janet or Justin's motives. I don't see where your argument holds any water, though, since she dry humped him through the whole song. Her concerns for her brother didn't cause her to restrain other parts of her act.

And, let's remember, this is an ACT. So she acted mortified. So what...that doesn't mean she didn't know it was coming.

I am a big busted woman too, but I don't parade around in break-away bustierres, so the comparison of Janet's attire to what presently resides in my lingere drawer isn't relevant.

And, I have no stance on the "morality" of this issue--but I think she ought not play victim to a "wardrobe malfunction" and just admit that it was planned.

[Tinoire]

37. You're right- looks like one of those grip cups

but that could be ripped off even more easily!

There is NO way Janet Jackson would have done something like this on purpose- especially not with what's going on with Michael. They have enough problems as it is.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Doing it on purpose makes no sense. She's not stupid- she knows who the audience is & the timing couldn't be worse.

[Devils Advocate NZ]

25. The explanation I heard on NZ television...

and yes it did hit our news, but more as a piece on the reaction on US TV News.

Anyway, the explanation they said on our news was that Timberlake was meant to pull off the black leather-look cup leaving a red lace bra-type thing underneath, but when he grabbed it the whole lot came off.

Actually it was quite funny on our news, because they showed it in full and uncensored, then poked a little fun at US TV news for showing it with "modesty" blurring. The definite feeling our news gave was that the US was once again displaying hypocrisy, considering that many US TV shows and movies seem to think that ANY movie/show can be made better with a bit of boob.

[Tinoire]

29. The papers here are saying the same thing but as usual

you have to look for the truth.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tv/159053_jackson03.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-et-super3feb03,1,1802055.story?coll=la-home-headlines

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040203/APS/402030592

Meanwhile, this man seeing an opportunity, is going to SEIZE the occasion to tighten up the censorship even more and Liberals, instead of being outraged over all this fuss for an accident, are playing right along with the right wing & repeating the lie that it was done on purpose.

That lie is just what this man, son of a neo-con, needs to do his deeds. Not a good idea at ALL to help him.

[LiberalFighter]

48. Where else would they have it censored?

Japan

[Democat]

32. The headline is misleading

They were trying to rip off the leather, not the lace.

Take a closer look and you will see there was supposed to be a lace bra covering her breast. Justin ripped that off along with the leather.

You may not believe it, but the artists have said baring the breat was NOT intentional.

[mithnanthy]

35. It's called Velcro...

I'm in the entertainment business that deals with extensive costuming. It appears to me that this section of the costume was Velcro. The cup and lace are one piece attached by Velcro to the remaining costume. Justin knew exactly where to begin pulling the Velcro piece away. I also believe they were BOTH ACTING when they acted surprised. When the "investigation" begins, all they have to observe is, if Velcro was used at all and if it was attached to only one side of the costume. Justin's revenge...and Janet, staying up with the "times", after watching Brittany and Madonna's "shocking" behavior. This is the sign of the times in the youth culture. Girls get the attention they crave by shocking behavior. I'm now in the Night Club business 30 years and find the culture changes fascinating yet troubling.

[rocktivity]

38. Originally posted by Mithnanthy

...if Velcro was used at all and if it was attached to only one side of the costume...
Exactly. If the underlying lace wasn't supposed to come loose--that is, if Janet's bra were in once piece--wouldn't it have ripped when Justin pulled it?

...Janet...(is trying to) stay...up with the "times", after watching Brittany and Madonna's "shocking" behavior...
Exactly again. "Pop tarts," as I like to call Madonna and her offspring, would starve to death if they actually did have to sing for a living. And the older they get, the more replaceable they become, so they "push the envelope" to get headlines and claim it's "artistic expression". As I said, I have no doubt that Janet's attempt to "exonerate" MTV is to ensure that they will give her new video the needed airplay. It was definitley a business move.


rocknation

[Neshanic]

34. Moonvies to Janet...Lunch this week? I"m buying.

[goldy]

36. Breast? Bush?

Better take your eyes off the breast and put them on the Bush.

[Fleshdancer]

39. this whole breast thing is really getting out of hand

I knew our country had an unhealthy obsession with breasts, but for things to be this "love/hate" is neurotic. We're so supposedly angry at the boob that we MUST watch it, read about it, talk about it over and over and over and over....and now we're going to have the FCC invistigate it? Overkill much?

[BraveDave]

40. I blame the parents!

If parents wouldn't keep shoving them into kids mouths...
:9

[Fleshdancer]

41. lol! It's always the Mother's fault!

Freud would be a very excited man if he were still alive today.

[smiley_glad_hands]

42. Who Cares? Nice tit though. n/t

[donsu]

43. maybe Janet & Justin were ripping Ashcrofts shroud off of Lady Liberty

that's how I look at it

as soon as the bushgang is gone we should pull that shroud down

[LiberalFighter]

49. Maybe they should had brought out the blue drapery

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

46. Today on the History Channel...

"The Titty that brought a nation to its knees"..... OH GOD THE HORROR OF IT ALL!

[SOS]

51. Last night

CBS broadcast CSI Miami. The show featured a shot of a naked man taped to a chair. His throat was slashed from ear to ear and his body was drenched in blood. The script made it clear that the man had his genitals chopped off with a cigar cutter. In a flashback sequence the torture, genital mutilation and throat slashing were quite clear.
Now what's obscene at CBS again?