Janet has made internet history. According to the Lycos 50 Daily Report, Janet's revealing moment this weekend became the most searched item in the history of the internet.

On Monday, Janet Jackson and the halftime show received 60 times as many searches as the Paris Hilton sex tape and 80 times as many searches as Britney Spears. Jackson was searched 50 times for every request for the topic that normally dominates on the day after the game, Super Bowl commercials. She also received 275 times as many searches as the streaker who ran on the field before the second half, and 350 times as many searches as Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady."

Shockingly, Janet's performance was even more intensely searched than the previous high event, September 11, 2001.

again with the janet threads

And, again, if you're going to complain, don't click and reply. Do something else with your time, and create your own thread that interests you. People are still responding to them, aren't they?

I think Spike Lee made a good point. Kind of a redundant article, but it's pretty good:

Jackson Says Stunt 'Went Wrong' at End
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By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

NEW YORK - Film director Spike Lee (news) criticized Janet Jackson (news)'s surprise breast-baring during the Super Bowl halftime show last weekend as a "new low" of attention-getting antics by entertainers.

Meanwhile, Jackson issued another apology in a videotape released to the media. The pop star had apologized Monday night in a written statement.

"I am really sorry if I offended anyone. That was truly not my intention," she said. "MTV, CBS, the NFL had no knowledge of this whatsoever, and unfortunately, the whole thing went wrong in the end."

At the end of their duet Sunday, Justin Timberlake (news) snatched off part of Jackson's bustier on stage, revealing a breast clad only in a sun-shaped "nipple shield" to some 89 million viewers.

Lee, speaking at Kent State University's regional campus in Stark County, Ohio, on Tuesday night, said there has been a decline in artistry.

He said it's not enough to be a good singer, and that entertainers "have to do something extra" — such as the openmouthed kiss Madonna (news - web sites) gave Britney Spears (news) and Christina Aguilera (news) during the MTV Video Music Awards in August.

"What's gonna be next? It's getting crazy, and it's all down to money. Money and fame," said Lee, the director of "Malcolm X" and "Do the Right Thing." "Somehow the whole value system has been upended."

Jackson's spokeswoman, Jennifer Holiner, said a red lace garment was supposed to remain when Timberlake tore off the outer covering. But widespread questions remained about the intent.

The one-second flashing continued to cause reverberations Tuesday, as CBS said it would institute a video delay system to avoid any recurrence at the Grammy awards.

Timberlake, who is nominated for five Grammy Awards, is scheduled to perform on Sunday's telecast. Jackson is supposed to present an award.

"Unfortunately, we cannot count on those who appear on our air to live up to our standards," said Martin Franks, CBS executive vice president.

CBS faces a Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) investigation into whether the Super Bowl show violated decency laws, with potential fines of up to $27,500. If applied to each CBS station, the fine could reach into the millions.

FCC (news - web sites) chief Michael Powell (news) said Tuesday that the agency had begun a formal investigation, and a letter was sent to CBS. "It's well under way," he said.

All five commissioners expressed concern about the Super Bowl broadcast, but Powell declined to speculate on what the FCC would do once the investigation was finished.

Powell said he wasn't happy with the halftime show in general, which featured performances by Nelly and Kid Rock before the bump-and-grind duet with Jackson and Timberlake. Nelly gestured toward his crotch, while Kid Rock draped himself in an American flag-designed poncho.

Tom Freston, chairman of MTV Networks, said he welcomed the FCC's investigation, which he said will prove that the show's producers and broadcasters had no prior knowledge of the stunt. MTV produced the halftime show.

"We were really ripped off. We were punk'd by Janet Jackson," Freston said, referring to MTV's reality show that makes celebrities the butt of practical jokes.
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AP writers Seth Sutel and Nekesa Mumbi Moody contributed to this report.

VoicesCarry said:

What a quote! Also, they weren't the only thing that was ripped off.

Janet's BOOB is the most searched internet event in history. Congrats.




And, you don't even have to be a good singer. It's really sad.

VinaBlue said:

Make comments on Janet's voice all you want, but I love her voice and she's been one of the biggest stars in history.

VinaBlue said:

It's funny, I know. I have no idea why VelvetRoper thinks getting googled more often than a skanky socialite's seedy sex tape is an accomplishment worthy of Janet, but I guess it means she's truly appealed to the Lowest Common Denominator. Way to go, Janet!...I think.
[This message was edited Wed Feb 4 9:00:21 PST 2004 by VoicesCarry]

theVelvetRoper said:

I wasn't making a comment on Janet's voice in particular. I know things like that are subjective. I personally don't like her tone, but I know she can at least carry a tune and isn't tone def.

My point is that it doesn't matter if you can or can't sing, showing as much skin as possible is what people base their musical tastes on sometimes. It sickens me.

VoicesCarry said:

Did I say it was an "accomplishment worthy of Janet"?

if her next album is not terrific at least there will be a wonderful backlash hehe

VinaBlue said:

My musical taste has nothing to do with showing as much skin as possible, and Janet has had her fans decades before what happened at the Superbowl.

theVelvetRoper said:

Considering that you bothered to report it and you love Janet, I kind of took it to be implied I've never seen you say anything negative about Janet.
[This message was edited Wed Feb 4 9:09:17 PST 2004 by VoicesCarry]

VoicesCarry said:

I reported it, and I do love Janet, but don't assume. To tell you the truth, I'm shocked that Janet did that because she really doesn't need to, but I don't see the need for all of the controversy, as there are so many more things going on that should be handled. A breast on television should NOT be considered as "deplorable" when there are so many more things in the media to be worried about.

VoicesCarry said:

It's a bit unfair to beat up on VelvetRoper. She's obviously a big fan, this is the right forum and this is an interesting piece of pop culture news. She wasn't heralding it as a triumph (although her sales have gone up substantially)

I think Janet is great and have seen her twice in concert. Bit disappointed with her stunt but if it works for her...

theVelvetRoper said:

Very well said and so true.

adoreme said:

Thank you, sweetie! And I love your avatar. I actually was going to put up a Marilyn avatar myself, but got too excited about the new Janet era so kept the JJ!

theVelvetRoper said:

People DO buy music when they see skin. It's a subconscious thing, I guess. Why do you think Janets album sales went through the roof after the superbowl? And I know you have varied musical taste from the alphabet threads, so I'm not picking on you or Janet. As an example, a friend of mine once admitted he bought a cd because of a hot chick on the cover and he thought the music sucked. I can't remember the group, some 3 piece wannabe punk band. It was a guy, buying a cd by an all male group with redundant music and a hot chick on the cover. Go figure.



Again, I'm not pointing the finger at Janet. I'm talking about the state of the music industry in general. Janet has now moved down to the level of Britney in my eyes. How hard is it to find a picture of Britney and her clones in front of a musical instrument? That is my point. I've made that point a few times on Britney threads. All I'm saying is that Janet is now in that category in my eyes.

So much attention for such a cheap thing to do. Oh well.
I think by now people are hyped by the hype, not by what actually happened or Janet Jackson herself.

Janet's 'Reveal' Lays Bare An Insidious Trend

By Donna Britt, Washington Post

So I was sitting at my desk Monday, studying an Internet photo enlargement of Janet Jackson's breast. Wondering whether its superstar owner was the innocent victim of a "wardrobe malfunction" or had conspired with rumored ex-beau Justin Timberlake to flash The Breast -- and its metal, nipple-encircling starburst -- to 90 million stunned Super Bowl viewers.

A boob studying a boob.

I'm not a boob merely because Jackson later admitted in a statement that the "decision to have a costume reveal at the end of my halftime show performance was made after final rehearsals."

I'm a boob -- and a rube and a hopeless naif, if you will -- because pop culture's journey to that surreal Super Bowl moment has been so unwavering that only a simpleton wouldn't have seen it coming. Who but an innocent would be shocked by any stunt performed in an MTV-fueled entertainment before a humongous audience?

Especially one performed by a diva with a soon-to-be-released album?

My boobdom revealed itself three days earlier during an "ER" rerun. In it, a preteen who'd accompanied her unconscious grandmother to the ER was distressed when medical personnel tore open the elderly woman's blouse for a procedure -- fully exposing her bare breasts to the TV camera. When the girl pleaded, "She wouldn't want to be naked," medical staffers duly covered Grandma.

At home, I sat wondering, "Did I just see that?" Just like Sunday at halftime.

Sometimes, it takes the mind a moment to accept the eyes' report of that which makes no sense. Jackson's exposed breast on a Super Bowl broadcast during family hour didn't conform to anything I'd seen on network TV. Nothing had prepared me for it -- not the Madonna-Britney tongue-lashing, not the nude female corpses on "CSI," not BET's relentless rump-shaking, not J.Lo's assorted transparent gowns.

I wasn't alone. Watching the show in her Cabin John family room with her son, 12, and daughter, 13, economic consultant Alice Makl was already uneasy -- "everything was objectionable: the dancing, the lyrics" -- before Timberlake ripped and The Breast emerged.

"My son immediately burst out, 'That's nasty!' " Makl recalled. "My daughter just sat there." The "costume reveal," her daughter later said privately, reminded her of a novel she'd read in which a female slave was repeatedly raped.

"For my daughter, it was a violent devaluation of women portrayed as entertainment," Makl said.

Next came the media firestorm. Then the obligatory "explanations" that somehow conjured a wacked-out space technician intoning, "Houston, we have a problem at the Bowl. It's a wardrobe malfunction! No, a costume reveal!"

Thanks to the stunt, one of the most exciting Super Bowl games ever was all but forgotten. Josh Groban's stirring vocals and Beyonce Knowles's beauty and class during her superb rendition of our nation's anthem became moot. Even a string of smarmy commercials -- a pet monkey hitting up its owner's date for sex? -- went poof.

All because of a breast.

Hey, when Lucy Lawless (Xena) flashed her boobs after singing the national anthem at a hockey game was there an investigation? Was it really an accident? Could she have done it for publicity? Were the children scarred? I don't think so.

AdoreDaBang1 said:

Was it on tv?

VinaBlue said:

In front of 100 million people?

What crap! We could already see part of her bra! V6 and Madonna have sung in their underwear! Women wear bikini's on the beach! Good grief, woman! Holiner, don't insult us that way!

Anyway, I want to hear sincere apologies from Timberlake and MTV as well. Yeah, it was Janet's ta-ta, but others should be held equally accountable.

VoicesCarry said:

It was on TV and rerun relentlessly in the news and no I don't think the Mighty Ducks drew quite the audience as the Superbowl BUT the charges aren't based on the number of people watching. The policies they have are not based on ratings but on time slot.

AdoreDaBang1 said:

Interesting.

I remember when Drew Barrymore flashed David Letterman, her boobs where blurred out. I'm not that familiar with how long ago the Xena thing happened, but was a photo of her nipple enlarged and posted all over the internet? Maybe that has something to do with the uproar now.

And the irony of all of this is the very parents that have been complaining so much about their kids seeing this on tv(during halftime) probably fail to realize that all kids got to do is go out on the web and they can see all the still photos of Janet's breast from the performance they want...especially if they've been to this site over the last couple of days...

Something else...ABC News ran a story on the State Of American Television...They had all of these people being interviewed talking about how bad t.v. is and the type of indecent stuff{in wake of Janet's and Justin's performance} that kids see on prime time television.

This is truly sad...you mean it took a woman's breast on t.v. for a split-second to make you realize that t.v. has gotten out of hand. Prime Time TV has been on this type of level for quite a while now.

Spike Lee is a highly intelligent man and his comments about Janet are 100% correct. A few months ago he made a statement about the state of hip-hop music and he was right on with that too. Janet has been placed on a pedestal and IMO she's a very average singer and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have made her what she is today. As far as real talent goes, I'd give her a 6/10 and her stunt the other night was disgraceful!

kisscamille said:

spike, while a great filmmaker (actually, my favorite), has no business pointing the finger. he consistently uses more shocking elements in his films to gather attention. from 'she's gotta have it' to 'bamboozled', he uses shock methods. has anyone seen 'do the right thing' or 'jungle fever' or 'girl 6'? i understand that in his films there is profound socio-political commentary and he uses these shock tactics to bring it to the masses but to point and wag his finger at another person for doing the same thing (really, regardless of intention, it's the same thing) is hypocritical. he will be speaking at my university in a few weeks...i'm going to try and mention this when i go.

so now spike and justin can go have a beer somewhere and talk about how appalling the world of entertainment is...while they plan their next shocking movie/video.