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The character assassination of Janet Jackson by the coward Justin Timberlake
Let’s be clear about something: the wardrobe malfunction was Justin’s fault.
A “wardrobe malfunction” ensues, and instead of revealing a pretty red bra, you — for not even a full second — see her nearly bare breast, a star-shaped shield obscuring most of her nipple. CBS, which had broadcast the offending mammary, banned Janet Jackson’s music and punted her from the Grammy Awards lineup (though Timberlake, absurdly enough, was still allowed to perform). The great irony of Nipplegate, and maybe its true legacy, is that something like it would be able to travel much faster and wider now — and yet in large part because of what happened on that stage in 2004, because of the change it wrought both technologically and culturally, it wouldn’t be nearly as big a deal.
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