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."

[cricket]

Without a doubt; the worst half/time show I have ever seen for Super Bowl. Totally depressing and disgusting.

Not insulting enough; the American flag was dragged in and sullied as well.

Someone's head should 'roll' over this one.

[luvbach1]

Disgraceful, but where are the photos?

It was not on for more than about a second, the camera immediately being switched to something else. It occured at the very end of the show. It appeared Janet was covered by a stategically placed, brightly colored metallic pasty, not a tassel as previously described, but I could be wrong. It was fast.

[MattAMiller]

I must have missed it while I was grabbing some chips. One of the guys I was watching it with kept going on about how Justin Timberlake had ripped her top off, I didn't pay much attention to him and figured he'd just taken off part of her suit exposing a lower layer.

Having seen the pictures on Drudge I doubt it was accidental. Women don't usually wear pasties just in case just in case somebody yanks their top off.

[luvbach1]

Timberlake very purposefully reached over and pulled a breakaway flap aside, exposing the breast.Accident? That was not a serious assertion.

[WasDougsLamb]

What do you expect? Jacksons whole family is a bunch of sexual deviates.

[Mr. Silverback]

Nope, sorry, the donkey was good, but the best ad BY FAR was...

[beep!]"Earnhardt?"
[beep!]"Yeah coach?"
[beep!]"You're going in!"
VRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!

[Atchafalaya]

I didn't realize that breast feeding needed such a musical production and choreoghraphy in order to accomplish a maternal necessity; I must have blinked as I missed the suckling child. I love breasts but that was on the order of WTF? Waning (tanked) career perhaps?

[joey9004]

HAHAHAHA....."I love breasts"....that made my night

[shekkian]

A daily dose of eMpTyV
Will flush your mind on down the drain
Shannon Hoon and Kurt Cobain
Make yourselves a household name

Just close your mind
You can find all you need with your eyes

The big machines take care of you
Until you kill yourself
And then the sales go through the roof
Calculated, formulated
Feed my head with simple thoghts
And let me breathe instead of being taught
All bottled up and tearing at the seams
I'm bored, just let me breathe!

"Just Let Me Breathe" by Dream Theater

[Atchafalaya]

Don't, their braying will wake the dead, deader and deadest!!!!!!!!!!!!

[NewRomeTacitus]

Good old NRT actually spent quality childhood time chatting with strippers in their dressing room where his mother prepared for work. I spent a lot of time creating interesting nipple-coverings as an ongoing craft project. On the downside, that made me different from most men. Personality, intelligence, charm: those are the things that stir interest for me. I think I was fortunate to have escaped the morbid shame that seems to drive real perversities and crimiminal tendencies that plague our world. Ted Bundy attributed his overwhelming fascination with pornography as his motivation to kill dozens of young women (though I think he was lying just to sow more evil).
It's a tassled breast, not "dirty pillows" (Stephen King's crazy mother from "Carrie").
MTV was definitely wrong to insult the sensibilities of the mainstream public. They used and abused an American institution for shameless self-promotion in a manner that did not respect understood norms. Slamming them for their disrespect carries more weight than going with the "skin equals dirty" approach.

[Atchafalaya]

I was referring to Tyson fryers from Arkansas hhhmmmmm!

[tapatio]

http://www.ifilm.com/?sctn=collections&pg=superbowl2004

you can go here and see all the superbowl commercials.

[joey9004]

sure sure...it's ok...it's late here on the east coast...

[Cindy]

FCC INFO ON HOW TO FILE A COMPLAINT
http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html

[TheWriterInTexas]

Color me old fashioned, but I'm one of those women who believes that modesty is a forgotten but necessary virtue.

I had friends growing up who were "liberated." What did it get them? Misery, heartache, occassionally marriage, but mostly heartache.

Seeing a person as God made them should be a treasured gift - something to be shared with their parents as they tend to them in infancy, with their spouse in marriage, with medical personnel as absolutely necessary, and with (in the case of women) their children during pregnancy and nursing.

Not - I repeat - not with millions of strangers across the nation.

If this was an accident, Justin needs a serious butt whipping by some male out there who respects women. If this was a staged event, Janet needs a serious butt whipping for being so darned shameless.

[shekkian]

A few churches around town were having Superbowl parties.
It will be very interesting to see their reaction.

[joey9004]

I was chagrined by this event, but come on. if they're watching this at a church they should know what they're getting into. NFL games are frecuently characterized by bad behavior. Add the beer commercials. Add the marquis names for the halftime show---Kid Rock, Nelly, P. Diddy, among others. I feel bad if innocent minds were affected, but this is not new for the NFL.

[185JHP]

I'm going to watch CBS less because of this vileness.