Statement regarding the Super Bowl halftime show

Did anyone take time to think that maybe Janet was not aiming to have her breast exposed? She looked mortified after the incident and I saw a picture of how Justin covered her to get her off stage. Maybe it wasn't planned. I think they were planning to end the song with a costume revealing but I don't think it was suppose to be a striptease. While I did not care for the Halftime "entertainment", I don't think bashing Janet is going to make the situation better. Boycott the station or complain all you want but at least look the whole situation. The Halftime Show was nothing short of an abomination.

I imagine most gave consideration to the possibility that there was an accident. However, after reviewing what happened I believe most are convinced that it was not an accident.

Yes, IMHO the half time show was poor entertainment for a Super Bowl being watched by families, etc., irrespective of the "boob seen 'round the world". All the crotch grabbing and the choice of songs showed a lack of judgment. Similarly, I found the Aerosmith segment lacking also, considering February 1 was the anniversary of the Columbia break up and family members of the crew were in attendance.

Good game upstaged by a bad choice of having MTV direct the entertainment.

"So she can lip-sync again?"

Not true:

From slate:

Did Shania Twain Lip-Sync Her Super Bowl Halftime Songs?
By Julia Turner
Posted Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 2:48 PM PT

ABC producers promised that the pop stars they recruited for this year's Super Bowl halftime show would do their singing live—no lip-syncing allowed. But what about country star Shania Twain, who seemed to hop around the stage without missing a note?

Paul Liszewski, who produced the sound for the show, says Shania's mic was hot and her vocals were live. (Other audio engineers who watched the broadcast agreed.) Twain's accompaniment, however, was what's called a "band in a box," which means the back-up vocals and instrumentals we heard were prerecorded. So while the diva was belting out show-stoppers like "Man, I Feel Like a Woman," her onstage drummer was thrashing away merely for effect.

Other bands use a different mix of taped and live elements, depending on the nature of the show. At a dance-heavy concert where the lead singer does exhausting choreography, we might hear a tape of the lead vocal track. At an event like the Super Bowl, where sound engineers have five minutes—rather than the usual six or eight hours—to set up, bands are more likely to rely on tape. During No Doubt and Sting's halftime sets, we were also hearing live vocals and canned instrumentals. Last year, when U2 played, we heard both Bono's voice and the Edge's guitar live, though the rhythm section was prerecorded.

For big events, even totally "live" bands have tapes standing by in case of emergency. If, say, Bono's microphone had suddenly failed last year, an engineer in a broadcast truck equipped with an audio mixer would have quickly brought up the sound on a prerecorded version of Bono's vocal track. If the person doing the blend did the job right, the audience would never even notice the glitch. (That explains the moment when Shania ran back to the stage after mingling with the crowd and didn't appear to be singing, even though her vocals came through loud and clear. When Twain took too long getting back to the stage, the mixing engineer likely brought up the prerecorded vocal track, and then took it back down it as Shania started to sing.)

How do performers keep time when they're faking it? Musicians are almost always listening to a recording of the song on a monitor as they perform. (Most often, that recording is a mix of all the song's tracks, but drummers sometimes prefer to hear a "click track," which just goes tick-tick-tick like a metronome.) Traditionally, the monitors were speakers placed on stage. But that meant that the performers couldn't move around freely and that their microphones might pick up the tape track. These days, many musicians opt for a wireless in-ear monitor, which allows them to strut through a song without losing the beat or tripping on a wire. Each one is custom-molded to the ear canal, looks a little bit like a hearing aid, and can run somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,100.

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