MTV Touted Jackson 'Shocker' Before Topless Super Bowl Dance

NewsMax.com ^ | 2/01/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

CBS is claiming it had no idea that a Super Bowl half-time dance routine between Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake would feature the pop diva going partially topless.

But four days before Ms. Jackson assaulted tens of millions TV viewers during the family hour with her R-rated moment, a press release by the company producing the show boasted that her dance would be "shocking."

"I don't think the Super Bowl has ever seen a performance like this," Jackson choreographer Gil Duldulao said, in a press release posted to MTV's web site on Jan. 28.

"The dancing is great. She's more stylized, she's more feminine, she's more a woman as she dances this time around. There are some shocking moments in there too."

CBS and NFL switchboards were flooded with complaints as millions of families gathered to watch what was supposed to be a wholesome family-oriented TV sports event.

But instead, a song laced with Timberlake's allusions to getting Jackson naked ended with him ripping off part of her top, exposing Jackson's tassled breast.

A statement issued by the NFL said it was unlikely that MTV would ever be allowed to produce another Super Bowl half-time show.

But despite the music network's boast that the "shocking" routine would show Jackson as "more of a woman as she dances around," CBS is calling her nudity "unexpected."

[Remole]

Folks, for me the most disturbing part of the whole show was the voice-over for one of the drugs that combat "erectile disfunction": it recommended that the patient contact medical authorities if the erection lasts longer than 4 hours. FOUR HOURS!!

[holdmuhbeer]

hey man i laughed my a$$ off at the farting horse.

[cyncooper]

That's exactly the attitude most posters have expressed. And then for the various entitities involved to lie about the incident and claim it wasn't planned and it was a malfunction is outrageously insulting.

Don't worry. Nobody here is anti sex, but we know what acceptable television and Super Bowl entertainment is, and this wasn't it.

[cyncooper]

Watch the age comments please.

I don't get the bashing women for getting older comments that frequently pop up on FR.

sigh

[CathyRyan]

Dear Janet....

You look like a Borg with a Borg implant, Janet dear, you are no Seven of Nine. Keep your clothes on.

[BlazingArizona]

"since you exist and taxpayers pay for you, why don't you do your job and heavily fine" all involved.

So far as I'm concerned, the only function of the FCC should be to act as a neutral recorder of deeds to freely auctioned spectrum space. That activity can be financed by a small broadcaster fee. We don;t need a federal agency in carge of specifying moral culture.<> I'm not arguing for moral relativism here. Parents should have every right to control what their kids watch on the media until they reach adulthood, but cheap technology exists for parents to control what their offspring see on the TV and Internet they receive at home.

Whic harms our children more - seeing a bare boob on a football game show or having an endless of liberal news pundits pound anti-capitalism, anti-technology and anti-Americanism into their little skulls full of mush?

[Rightly Biased]

Our local weather man just said
" The boob saw its shadow and there will be six more weeks of winter"

[oyez]

FOUR HOURS!!

I'd be contacting more than medical authorities.

[newgeezer]

Thanks so much, Janet F. Jackson and Justin F. Timberlake, for giving Osama some new material to motivate his militant Islamist "troops." (This is perhaps the best such thing since the Britney/Madonna tongueing incident.)

Somehow, it seems appropriate that MTV (Viacom/CBS) would play a major part in that, too.

[pctech]

So did I!!!!

[manic4organic]

Final score: Farting horse - 21, Janet Jackson - 0

[Pharmboy]

My guess is this: during the meetings at CBS/MTV where this was being discussed, it was originally proposed that Timberlake pulls her entire top down exposing both silicon bags. The ensuing discussion finally reached a compromise: the human padiddle.

[SerpentDove]

Churchladies? Probably.

Additionally, there are plenty of decent family-types who are rightly outraged at the primetime assault on decency.

[from occupied ga]

She's more stylized, she's more feminine, she's more a woman as she dances this time around

She's an ugly skank. I really resent the implication that I'd even want to see any of her body. If this defines feminine, then it's time to give it up.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Additionally, there are plenty of decent family-types who are rightly outraged at the primetime assault on decency.

I'm tons more offended by Kid Rock's desecration of an American flag AND by CBS' and MTV's clumsy lies than Boobgate.

[Johnny_Cipher]

Oh, and I almost forgot ... a change to the tagline is in order.

[SerpentDove]

If this is what passes for funny, I'll change my tagline:

"Yaa shur, yuu betcha."

[Johnny_Cipher]

"Yaa shur, yuu betcha."

(O'Neill): "How'd you do?"
(Carter) "We kicked their a**es."
(O'Neill): "They had a**es?"

(Teal'c): "I have a feeling he is concealing something."
(O'Neill): "Do you know what it is?"
(Teal'c): "I do not know. He is concealing it."

[Paved Paradise]

This is bathroom humor - sad people think this stuff is funny, but when you see success of movies like American Pie, it is not surprising.

[GOPcapitalist]

The biggest consumers of rap/hip-hop are white teenagers.

...which is exactly what I said - the early high school crowd that is at that stage in between listening to teeny bop N'Sync stuff and and powder punk.

They also make the lion's share of music consumers (blowing $15-a-pop for a CD of their parents' hard earned money). So, no, rap is not narrowly listened to.

What percentage of the population is made up of white teenagers? If it is more substantial than I have speculated then you are right. If it is still a small minority of the population, then you are wrong. Music consumption happens in more ways than buying CDs or using napster, you know.