In 2004, Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake capped off the most talked-about Super Bowl halftime show with one famous “wardrobe malfunction” and a flood of complaints to the FCC. While Timberlake’s career soared high enough that he’ll headline another marquee halftime show, Jackson has failed to reach the lofty heights of her one-time stagemate.
Super Bowl day is now #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay, thanks to Twitter
Justin Timberlake is playing at halftime, but fans are talking more about the woman who won’t be joining him.
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But Jackson has not been forgotten. Tributes are popping up all over Twitter thanks to the #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay hashtag.
Jackson took the brunt of the heat for her exposed nipple back in 2004, leading to both written AND video apologies in the days that followed.
“The decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals. MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended – including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.”
In the years since then, Jackson’s career has quietly wound down, while Timberlake became one of the world’s best-known pop stars.
But the former *NSYNC member’s popularity came at the expense of Jackson -- a pop-culture staple with five Grammy Awards and 10 No. 1 hit singles to her name. Her fans haven’t forgotten, either.
Janet Jackson is 51, still touring, and her last album went to No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard charts. So while she may have faded from the public eye after what unoriginal people dubbed “Nipplegate,” she was far from finished after Timberlake dropped the last line of “Rock Your Body.”
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