Super Bowl XXXVIII, which was broadcast live on February 1, 2004 from Houston, Texas on the CBS television network in the United States, was noted for a controversial halftime show in which Janet Jackson's bare breast was exposed by Justin Timberlake in what was referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction".The incident, sometimes referred to by the portmanteau Nipplegate, was widely discussed. It, along with the rest of the halftime show, led to a crackdown and widespread debate on perceived "indecency" in broadcasting, leading to a record $550,000 fine levied by the Federal Communications Commission to CBS, as well as an increase of FCC fines per indecency violation from $27,500 to $325,000. Additionally, the halftime show was seen by some as a sign of decreasing morality in the national culture
Impacts on Jackson and Timberlake
Jackson's career began to decline since the incident. Her first album released since the Super Bowl, Damita Jo, was released in March 2004 to poor critical reception yet high worldwide sales and three Grammy nominations in 2005. However, her following album, 20 Y.O., did not sell as well despite better critical reception overall. Jackson's music videos have since lost considerable airplay on channels such as MTV and its sibling channel, VH1,mainly because those network decided to decrease continuous airing of music videos 24/7 (restricting them to overnight hours, or being put on separate digital networks such as MTV Hits or VH1 Soul), thereby turning around 180 degrees the original reason music videos were created along with their original channels.
Eventually, Jackson appeared on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman on March 29, 2004. In April 2004, Jackson made fun of herself in a Saturday Night Live appearance, first while playing Condoleezza Rice in a skit, nervously answering a question by exposing her right breast, which was pixelated by NBC, then by viewing a mock "home video" from her childhood when her bathing suit top came off in a wading pool. In 2006, during an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jackson stated that the Super Bowl scandal was an accident.
In the meantime, after the Super Bowl, Justin Timberlake won two Grammy awards in 2004 and put his musical career on hiatus to focus on acting. In 2006, Timberlake released an album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spawned several number-one singles. Timberlake also told MTV that he "probably got 10 percent of the blame", later explaining that "America's harsher on women" and "unfairly harsh on ethnic people", referring to the backlash suffered by him and Jackson. In 2008, MTV began rotating Janet Jackson's most recent video "Feedback", while Timberlake starred in a Pepsi-Cola ad airing during Super Bowl XLII.
Jackson's career began to decline since the incident. Her first album released since the Super Bowl, Damita Jo, was released in March 2004 to poor critical reception yet high worldwide sales and three Grammy nominations in 2005. However, her following album, 20 Y.O., did not sell as well despite better critical reception overall. Jackson's music videos have since lost considerable airplay on channels such as MTV and its sibling channel, VH1,mainly because those network decided to decrease continuous airing of music videos 24/7 (restricting them to overnight hours, or being put on separate digital networks such as MTV Hits or VH1 Soul), thereby turning around 180 degrees the original reason music videos were created along with their original channels.
Eventually, Jackson appeared on CBS' Late Show with David Letterman on March 29, 2004. In April 2004, Jackson made fun of herself in a Saturday Night Live appearance, first while playing Condoleezza Rice in a skit, nervously answering a question by exposing her right breast, which was pixelated by NBC, then by viewing a mock "home video" from her childhood when her bathing suit top came off in a wading pool. In 2006, during an interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Jackson stated that the Super Bowl scandal was an accident.
In the meantime, after the Super Bowl, Justin Timberlake won two Grammy awards in 2004 and put his musical career on hiatus to focus on acting. In 2006, Timberlake released an album, FutureSex/LoveSounds, which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spawned several number-one singles. Timberlake also told MTV that he "probably got 10 percent of the blame", later explaining that "America's harsher on women" and "unfairly harsh on ethnic people", referring to the backlash suffered by him and Jackson. In 2008, MTV began rotating Janet Jackson's most recent video "Feedback", while Timberlake starred in a Pepsi-Cola ad airing during Super Bowl XLII.
I chose to do my media blog on this because it created such media attention for both artist but only one got singled out more than the other who happened to be a black female while the other was a young white male. The impact on both artist speaks for itself and shows that even today their are going to be double standards and less punishment from the white male.
This definitely relates to Zinn Ch. 2 "Drawing the Color Line" where he talks about whites getting less of a punishment because they are white and an example of that is when Zinn said 10 slaves escaped and only one was black but he got the worse punishment and had to stay a slave for the rest of his life. We also talked about white privilege and because Justin Timberlake is white and this country is ran mostly by white males he was'nt at all hurt by the incident and instead of his career declining he became even more successful going on to win grammys and selling out tours as well as 7 million records while Janet Jackson can barely sell 500,ooo copies of her new cds and has been ridiculed as if she pulled the cover off her breast herself. Til this day Janet's career has yet to prosper and be where it used to be she is gearing up to release a new album later this month.
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