Superbowl halftime show

[BlackSnake]

I was about a foot away from the TV when...BLAM! Jackson's tit dropped and giggled. A tascle dawned her nipple.

I wonder what the coverage will be like tomorrow.

 

[BlackSnake]

Timberlake and Jackson

 

[MagicFingers]

The full nude breast?

Timberlake and Jackson

I saw that! It's all over the news already.
Does anyone have the full boob pic? It looked very nice, but too brief and far away for me.
OK, found it on the GB! Nope, it wasn't an accident.

 

[English Lady]

*LOL* well I was watching the superbowl(yup they had it on sky sports) and the halftime show thing baffled me...but well all that cavorting and groping of timberlake's ass was definitely leading up to something...but well it was a boob with the nipple covered....not really THAT exciting at the end of the day....interesting show though....can't see that kind of thing happening during the half time of our FA cup though....

 

[Guest]

Yep. It was staged.

The entire halftime show was pre-recorded (including the dancing marching band at the beginning). That was very disappointing to me - I expected that from the rest of the performers but not the band!!

Anyway, see this article by B. Duane Cross from Sports Illustrated about Jackson's "titillation."

Sports Illustrated

Janet Jackson is performer who tends to dance all over the stage in her shows. Non-stop motion.

For her shirt to magically open at the live broadcast of the Super Bowl half-time show, with no apparent clothing tears, nipple pre-covered with an attractive adornmant, at the precise moment at the end of the song Rock Your Body which ends with the line 'Cause I gotta have you naked by the end of this song?????

I mean, come ON!!!!

But I do love what Cross said about Timberlake (who got to grab Jackson's tit.) He said it was his only on-cue lip-synch of the evening!

On the other hand, the Football Game was TERRIFIC!!!


(edited cause I can't spell titillate)

 

[MR. Gibson]

first of all I thought the superbowl was great. second of all I thought the halftime show was great too. I was especially interested in watching the halftime show this year becase my favorite female singer janet jackson was performing. when janet was dancing with justin and he ripped off her right side of her top baring her naked breast with an ornament on it. I thought it was risque but i loved it. Go janet. it 's just more publicity for her. I think justin may of planned this to top what his former girlfriend britney spears did in kissing maddonna. justin may of wanted to do something crazier and sexier. I think the news will say they are an item now but all that talk will die down. these pop stars lately want to see who can top each other with the wildest performences. but i loved it and i actually videotaped the whole superbowl and i watch janet and justin do their thing over and over again!!! i am a little surprised jessica simpson did not perform. she just announced. she probably did not get the call from the superbowl staff to perform on this superbowl a year ago, but through her star power got in on this one. jessica was in a pizza commercial with kermit the frog though! be well all!

My sexy tales!

 

[SeaCat]

Strange but true

Believe it or not, even th0ugh I watched the halftime show I didn't see this happen. I only heard about it on the news this morning. When I asked my wife about it, she admitted to seeing it but she didn't believe it. Ahh well.
When I got to work though that was all the people there were talking about. How Janet Jackson was exposed. I even had a woman who is a patient telling me how this all came about because men could do this and get away with it. She seems to believe that it was staged to show men they could get away with exposing, subjugating, and abusing women here in America because of our society and it's mores which allow women to be sexually repressed. (I damn near bit my tongue in half rather than responding to her comments.)
Another of my patients told me that this had been done by the American Government in order to show the world that we are in fact a healthy heterosexual society with no bonds or attachments to the few homosexual perverts in our midst. A third told me this was aired because of the Jews in our country. (I still can't figure that one out.)
Oh well, when I finally got home I reviewed my tape of the game, slow motioning through the half time show, and saw nothing hich amazed or titlated me. I got much more enjoyment from watching my wife strutting around our apartment in nothing but a smile.I have to say that I am amazed and amused by the reaction to this. Maybe there's a story in here somewhere?

SeaCat

 

[minsue]

Do you happen to work at a mental institution, SeaCat?

- Mindy, curious

 

[cookiejar]

Re: Strange but true

Believe it or not, even th0ugh I watched the halftime show I didn't see this happen. I only heard about it on the news this morning. When I asked my wife about it, she admitted to seeing it but she didn't believe it. Ahh well.
When I got to work though that was all the people there were talking about. How Janet Jackson was exposed. I even had a woman who is a patient telling me how this all came about because men could do this and get away with it. She seems to believe that it was staged to show men they could get away with exposing, subjugating, and abusing women here in America because of our society and it's mores which allow women to be sexually repressed. (I damn near bit my tongue in half rather than responding to her comments.)
Another of my patients told me that this had been done by the American Government in order to show the world that we are in fact a healthy heterosexual society with no bonds or attachments to the few homosexual perverts in our midst. A third told me this was aired because of the Jews in our country. (I still can't figure that one out.)
Oh well, when I finally got home I reviewed my tape of the game, slow motioning through the half time show, and saw nothing hich amazed or titlated me. I got much more enjoyment from watching my wife strutting around our apartment in nothing but a smile.I have to say that I am amazed and amused by the reaction to this. Maybe there's a story in here somewhere?

SeaCat

To me the story is very clear...play football and dump the gaudy, tasteless half time shows.

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Strange but true

To me the story is very clear...play football and dump the gaudy, tasteless half time shows.

Beautifully said.

 

[SeaCat]

Unfortunately no.

Do you happen to work at a mental institution, SeaCat?

- Mindy, curious

Sue,
Unfortuntely I don't work at a mental institution, although at times I feel like I do. I work at a large Hospital in a wealthy area of southern Florida.

SeaCat

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmmmm, good idea, but,

To me the story is very clear...play football and dump the gaudy, tasteless half time shows.

I think we should either dump the gaudy halftime shows, or dump the sexualy repressed dingbats who think their views of sex, sexuality, and controlling views of personal freedoms and liberties are correct and needfull for the rest of the world. Personaly I chose the second.
These people with their repressed libidonouse(sp) desires and buried sexual repression need to learn that their views are not the norm. Too bad this very vocal minority controls our society here. These are the people who visit cat houses in foreign countries while voting to ban them here on moral grounds. They are also the people who think that the slogan do as I say, not as I do is correct.
Oops, back on my soap box again huh? Sorry.
One last idea; Fuck Em. (Maybe that's what they need?)

SeaCat

 

[Guest]

Nobody decides my sexual tastes -

Except me.

I feel the show was poorly done. Period.

And it had nothing to do with the silly "flash the tit for ratings" scheme.

There were too many different artists, each performing miniscule pieces of their work, and all of them were lip-synching badly to pre-recorded selections.

I also wonder who they believe their target audience to be? Many middle school and high school age kids love those performers but I wonder about the 30-year-old man (or woman)!

Because of the poor quality of the production, they probably felt they had to use smut to sell it.

And - it didn't work. At least not for me!

 

[KenJames]

Re: Hmmmmm, good idea, but,

I think we should either dump the gaudy halftime shows, or dump the sexualy repressed dingbats who think their views of sex, sexuality, and controlling views of personal freedoms and liberties are correct and needfull for the rest of the world. Personaly I chose the second.
These people with their repressed libidonouse(sp) desires and buried sexual repression need to learn that their views are not the norm. Too bad this very vocal minority controls our society here. These are the people who visit cat houses in foreign countries while voting to ban them here on moral grounds. They are also the people who think that the slogan do as I say, not as I do is correct.
Oops, back on my soap box again huh? Sorry.
One last idea; Fuck Em. (Maybe that's what they need?)

SeaCat

I have zero interest in sports, so I missed the SuperBowl furor until I went to work on Monday. That's almost all people were talking about. I might actually pay attention if there was a completely naked halftime show.

Janet has a very attractive breast (the other one's probably okay too), even though the pierced nipple makes me cringe.

I agree with you. The problem isn't naked performers, it's the sexually repressed people who want to shove their concepts of morality down the rest of our throats.

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your post, Ken. You made me realize that not one person at work mentioned the bowl or the tit. I'm so happy!

Perdita

p.s. yes, I do work on this planet, at a university.

 

[minsue]

Thank you for your post, Ken. You made me realize that not one person at work mentioned the bowl or the tit. I'm so happy!

Perdita

p.s. yes, I do work on this planet, at a university.

I'm envious, 'Dita. I spent Monday morning hearing a woman a couple of cubicles over from me reading aloud (emphasis on the loud) various internet news articles to people. As far as I could tell, she spent the first 4 hours of her day searching the net for articles on Janet Jackson's tit.

By lunch I had a massive headache from ginding my teeth all morning in irritation.

- Mindy, now thinking 'that bitch makes about twice what I do, too!'

 

[Guest]

US apoplexy over Jackson flash

By Peter Bowes - BBC correspondent in Los Angeles

Two seconds of bare flesh and America is beside itself with indignation and outrage.

Janet Jackson's Super Bowl stunt, which she says went further than she planned, has left the US in a state of mass apoplexy on the subject of taste and decency in broadcasting.

A few moments after the now infamous "wardrobe malfunction" a grinning Justin Timberlake told the Access Hollywood TV show: "Hey man, we love giving you all something to talk about."

That is putting it mildly.

"I know many people in other countries are scratching their heads and thinking 'What in the world is the big fuss over there?'," said Robert Thompson, director of the Centre for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University.

"But this country takes exposed breasts very, very seriously. We get very exercised about such things."

There is no denying the level public fury. Within minutes of the Super Bowl half time performance, the internet was abuzz with angry chatter and phone lines to CBS's New York headquarters were jammed.

"That was the most disgusting thing that I have ever seen at a sports spectacle," said baseball coach Tommy Lasorda in Los Angeles. "They just absolutely ruined the fact that it was one of the greatest Super Bowl games that I have ever seen."

Frozen attitudes

But on a scale of terrible things that happen in public, is a fleetingly bare breast so terrible?

Janet and Justin were not alone in exhibiting questionable taste during the Super Bowl.

The telecast also featured sexed-up commercials for beer, an advert starring a flatulent horse and others for erectile dysfunction drugs.


In spite of the controversy, how many guys are glad they bought that big screen - Jay Leno, US comedian

But, apparently, they do not compare with the impact of an exposed body part. "Maybe when we left the old country we somehow froze certain attitudes," explained Mr Thompson.

"While other attitudes began to evolve elsewhere we held to many of them very carefully. There is this paradoxical part of the American character where we are simultaneously arguably the most obsessed about sex of anybody else in the entire planet and at the same time the most uptight about it."

Television's most TiVo replayed moment has provoked a level of debate that is unprecedented and there have been many calls for sweeping changes in the way broadcasters are regulated.

While the Jackson breast expose easily upstaged the entire Super Bowl event, the commercials, Iraq and the presidential election campaign, the underlying issue is nothing new for US broadcasters.

Regulation

"There has been this dynamite in the culture wars, the idea of what is appropriate, what isn't appropriate on the public airwaves and it's been sitting around waiting to go off for a long time," said Mr Thompson.

"This two seconds of exposed breast seems to have really been the fuse that in fact is now going to start all of these much larger discussions than simply the breast or not," he added.

The next big challenge for American television will be the notoriously unpredictable broadcast of the Grammy awards on Sunday. Once again, CBS has the honour and headache of hosting the event. US newspapers have reported that the network is under pressure to ensure that Jackson and Timberlake do not appear. She is scheduled to be a presenter while he is a nominee.

Not withstanding any possible changes in the law, American television is expected to introduce tougher policing of its live broadcasts.

Events such as award shows are likely to be transmitted on a five or 10-second delay. This would allow network censors to bleep or blur out potentially offensive material.

"People deciding whether to cut off one of the delayed broadcasts are going to err on the conservative side," said Mr Thompson.

Scantily-clad

As for next year's half-time show at the Super Bowl, it is highly unlikely the entertainment will not be produced by MTV.

"Maybe a clown making balloon animals might be more in order," said Mr Thompson.

But would anyone watch?

Network television is a reasonably reliable indictor of the average American's tastes and comfort levels with popular culture.

Reality TV continues to dominate the schedules because people watch it in huge numbers.

During primetime viewing periods it is often difficult to avoid the antics of scantily-clad contestants on dating shows.

And the 180% spike in viewership, as recorded by TiVo users immediately after the Jackson moment, was hardly due to indignant and unimpressed viewers.

Indeed, since Sunday, America's late-night TV comedians have had a field day making light out of the embarrassing Super Bowl concert.

"In spite of the controversy, how many guys are glad they bought that big screen, high definition TV now, yeah!" joked Jay Leno.

BBC NEWS: Published: 2004/02/04 02:06:52 GMT BBC MMIV

 

[Edward Teach]

US apoplexy over Jackson flash

By Peter Bowes - BBC correspondent in Los Angeles

Two seconds of bare flesh and America is beside itself with indignation and outrage.

Janet Jackson's Super Bowl stunt, which she says went further than she planned, has left the US in a state of mass apoplexy on the subject of taste and decency in broadcasting.

The Jackson flash didn't bother me but it may have been in bad taste, I dunno. I don't think it was as tasteless as the Bud commercial with a horse farting so hard in a woman's face it blew her hair back. But again, I dunno.

What I do know is that a streaker, disguised as a referee, slipped through what was supposed to be some of the tightest security in the country that day and made it to the center of the stadium. That could have been disastrous and is what we should be concerned about.

Janet Jackson's tit wasn't potentially dangerous to anyone except perhaps Timberlake, and only then because she had that metal stuff dangling from it.

 

[MR. Gibson]

like I have mentioned in the other haltime superbowl site I was especially interested in watching the superbowl halftime show because janet is my favorite female singer-not because she showed us her breast. I did think she went a bit too far but i enjoyed it anyway. people know when you hire janet jackson,britney spears,maddonna or beyonce to do a show the show will be pretty sexy. these performers are not going to sing mary had a little lamb. and you know the superbowl crowd does not want to see peter paul and mary and roy clark sing at halftime. I think janet should of came out in a jumpsuit and maybe strip it off with a bikini underneath and dance for us that way. but people would still complain. oh well!

 

[KenJames]

Thank you for your post, Ken. You made me realize that not one person at work mentioned the bowl or the tit. I'm so happy!

Perdita

p.s. yes, I do work on this planet, at a university.

My partner works at a university too, but that didn't spare him.

 

[KenJames]

I'm envious, 'Dita. I spent Monday morning hearing a woman a couple of cubicles over from me reading aloud (emphasis on the loud) various internet news articles to people. As far as I could tell, she spent the first 4 hours of her day searching the net for articles on Janet Jackson's tit.

By lunch I had a massive headache from ginding my teeth all morning in irritation.

- Mindy, now thinking 'that bitch makes about twice what I do, too!'

Isn't it amazing how hard some people work to get offended.

One of my co-workers said he was concerned about the effect seeing Janet would have on children. I'm more worried about children who've never seen a breast.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

A woman accidentally has her tit drop out of her clothes, and USA goes all hysteric?

Over here, we have G-rated films where you see women take skinnydips!



Whow, you're easily shocked!

 

[destinie21]

Isn't it amazing how hard some people work to get offended.

One of my co-workers said he was concerned about the effect seeing Janet would have on children. I'm more worried about children who've never seen a breast.

If you or your children didn't see it there's no way to avoid her tit it's all over the news and whatnot

 

[SeaCat]

Re: Nobody decides my sexual tastes -

Except me.

I feel the show was poorly done. Period.

And it had nothing to do with the silly "flash the tit for ratings" scheme.

There were too many different artists, each performing miniscule pieces of their work, and all of them were lip-synching badly to pre-recorded selections.

I also wonder who they believe their target audience to be? Many middle school and high school age kids love those performers but I wonder about the 30-year-old man (or woman)!

Because of the poor quality of the production, they probably felt they had to use smut to sell it.

And - it didn't work. At least not for me!

Sarah,

I agree with you on several points. Nobody tells me what my sexual preference is. As for the half time show you are quite correct. It had too many people doing too many small parts to make it worth watching. Now if they had done it with one or two artists working together, and maybe the band, then it would have been worth watching.

SeaCat

 

[SeaCat]

The only two I liked were;

The Jackson flash didn't bother me but it may have been in bad taste, I dunno. I don't think it was as tasteless as the Bud commercial with a horse farting so hard in a woman's face it blew her hair back. But again, I dunno.

What I do know is that a streaker, disguised as a referee, slipped through what was supposed to be some of the tightest security in the country that day and made it to the center of the stadium. That could have been disastrous and is what we should be concerned about.

Janet Jackson's tit wasn't potentially dangerous to anyone except perhaps Timberlake, and only then because she had that metal stuff dangling from it.

The only two commercials I liked were the Pepsi commercial with the bears, and the Chevy commercial with the soap.

SeaCat