You know whats wild? I wasn't old enough to really fully understand whats going on either, I'm not even from the US, but I still distinctly remember this happening with the tiny little detail that Justin Timberlake was completley absent from my memory of this! I always thought it was a wardrobe malfunction, because thats how I perceived the reports about it. Pretty much proves your point.
Same. I didn't watch the event (also, am not from the US) but read about it. My understanding at the time was that her clothes just fell off while she was dancing.
It was very obviously planned to go exactly the way it did. When there was public backlash Janet Jackson had to say publicly that it wasn't meant to happen like that. But I think people saw through the lie. I can agree with some of the points overall, as I don't think Janet Jackson should have gotten in trouble over this, but neither should Justin Timberlake.
Seeing this from an arab country , when i see how the media is treating obama and hillary and their roles in the creation of isis , supporting extremists and overthrowing dictatorships to transition to more chaos and wars , obama bombed syria and allowed the bombing of yemen and libya...... He is far worse than any other predident we have ever seen .but still the media kept defending him and supporting his decisions arguing that middle east is to much complicated isn't it the same as the topic you are talking about with obama and trump one who kept the arab world more peaceful against someone who lied to go to wars in name of democracy . I see what is hapenning now in the arab world and i know it is still bad but it was way to much better before obama came to power
Even as someone from the US who watched the Super Bowl that year, my memory is with TImberlake being completely absent. It's amazing how much of the conversation surrounding the event changes recollection completely. I honestly feel embarrassed and it's more validation I have biases to be more aware of.
ohhhhh thats why he was in his PJs... i thought it was because of the lock down... i mean .. after a whole year WFH, PJs feel like regular clothing to me
I do find it funny how other nations reacted to this "controversy" New Zealand was especially funny about it all..... "Oh there was a boob on tv and the Americans are losing their mind over that rather then the invasion of Iraq" Not a direct quote but that was the commentary in some newspaper years ago
yes I remember comments like this too, like how americans loose their minds over a boob but have no problem with seeing extreme violence in their entertainment. it was almost juvenile
I'm also in NZ and as i remember it, our media was much less mysogynistic about it. That could be just me though. My favourite is the Lucy Lawless one though. Not sure how she managed to get out of that one unscathed.
@@weldmachine What are you talking about? She didn’t “get what she was looking for” and she obviously didn’t want the massive amount of negative “attention” and hate she got. At 4:16 he explained how the stunt went wrong and she was accidentally fully exposed.
@@blue1584 As much as this topic was interesting when i wrote my comment. I have already got over it. Maybe you should do the same. Thanks for your reply ??
I thought it was so weird that everyone was talking so poorly of her. She literally looked so shocked. You can actually see her going through a freakout before realizing what had happened.
she did say it was part of the plan for Justin to pull the cover off, even though there was meant to be a bra covering underneath. She is not free from blame.
I think we’ve gone full circle here: “The founder of UA-cam actually said in an interview that one of the reason he started UA-cam was because of this moment… he literally invented UA-cam to solve the problem.” And earlier “And yes; I’m blurring this; I have to, it’s UA-cam and I just have to blur this moment.”
But in one of his other videos (Where the US Hides its Secrets), he shows a picture of a naked enslaved woman in Liberia. I guess it’s cool, so long as she’s a slave, right?
@Fahad Khan nah UA-cam in the early days you could put anything on, the thing is he never expected youtube to expand so exponentially it is now larger than life. When a business model like yt expands, they need corporate sponsors and corporate sponsers are anal about this sort of thing so they can appeal to the biggest market audience. At the end everything stems from a profit motive. Whether you are provocative or non-provocative, whichever brings in the dough.
@@fareehaxoxo8568 could argue that this video is educational so it should be fine as well. I wonder whether there's a point in time where it's accepted? Like if the Janet Jackson video happened 200 years ago, would it be fine to show uncensored? Or perhaps because it's a raw video, it's somehow different to an illustration/drawing?
I was always mad people blamed Janet and not Justin. I showed up to my daughter’s skating lesson and the moms said dont you hate Janet Jackson. I said, I could NEVER hate Janet Jackson
Does anyone else think it’s weird how all these songs talked about getting naked and no one was offended by that but they got offended by the wardrobe malfunction
The seret truth is that very few people were genuinely offended by it, it's all an act. It all starts with people seeing a vulnerable target that they think makes themselves look bigger to bring down a few pegs. She's a celebrity, which breeds jealousy, in many cases compounded with varying levels of racism and mysogeny which breeds resentment and a desire to put her "back in her place". Once all this is set in motion, there's also a degree of social mirroring, where people subconsciously see others react a certain way and mirror it in a desire to get positive social reactions, as well as the appeal of gossip in wanting to be one to share some juicy news with others.
@@grapenut6094 Nothing you said is relevant. What was fucked up about this situation is that Justin Timberlake, the guy that physically exposed her breast, suffered 0 negative consequences for this incident (and wasn't even mentioned in a significant portion of the reporting on the incident), while Janet's career was ruined for a long time. Justin Timberlake was half the equation, why was he not also black listed?
@@choronos Couldve come down to something as simple as her pissing off the wrong group of people who knows. Though if Justin was the one who was exposed to the entire world I doubt he'd have gotten off scott free either, that kinda thing tends to invite bad press lol
As a husband who loves my wife and a father of girls, the way women are portrayed really is upsetting to me. Women deserve to be treated fairly. I was upset when Mr. Timberlake wasn't held responsible for his action.
@@fdjsjakks603 yeah Janet says everywhere please blame me and then suddenly all journalist dont mansion the Justin ! how dumb are you bro ?did you watch the video !?
Janet was shown as she wanted to be with the exception of one half of a second. Condemn who you will, the item came off to expose as if it was made to. Janet has removed her clothes countless times for publicity and or money, as a result she’s noted for it. Hilary Clinton is not bothered with her sex pic’s because she has none. Intelligent women with self respect and modesty are not the same as a playboy bunny, and I like the bunnies to be clear.
I remember when it happened, it was all over Fox News for weeks (I know 🙄). I distinctly remember my mom saying “of course she planned it. She pierced her nipples. She obviously wanted people to see it” I think that’s how a lot of people remember it. Just blaming Janet 100%.
We were all talking about it at the lunch table the next day in elementary school. I remember her look of utter shock. He was the one who ripped her shirt off, it’s crazy how people twisted it.
American society is way too obsessed with women's nipples. In Africa, Europe and South America nipples just body parts. They shouldn't have pandered to Conservatives, puritans and prudes. If the world was up to them, women would still be wearing dresses that do not show their ankles just like in Victorian times. It's just a nipple.
because justin went and "tearfully apologized" to the grammy director i think? the director got offended janet didn't go kiss his ass too and blacklisted her from every viacom channel and every radio station
Well no, she said she planned it, or agreed to it, but someone screwed up and the costume did not come out right. What is wrong is that Timberlake got away with it as HE was ALSO was in on the planning of it. What was wrong was CBS's vendetta against her. IE people with power being cowards.
@@johnasdf3847 Uh, no the media do not owe her an apology. She knowingly participated in the stunt. It went wrong. Whoever made the wardrobe owes her an apology. Justin Timberlake probably does as well. Timberlake should have been raked over the coals as well, but he was early 20's and Jackson was nearly 40 so... kinda gets a pass.
I agree! I loved this video but I wish Johnny had named what this is... sexism and racism. Janet's intersectional identity as a Black woman cannot be separated from what she experienced. Also maybe this is nitpicking, but the way men casually say "females" when they could just say "women" makes me cringe.
@@stellaray2383 I personally feel the need to differentiate between adult women and all (women and girls), and contrasting between women and females/girls sounds better to me than contrasting between ladies and women.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Janet Jackson a few months after, when “Damita Jo” was released and she did a press tour in Europe. We were asked to not talk about “nipple gate”, it was not discussed but Janet was not mincing her words. She was very open about media and people judging her. I had never seen someone being so soft-spoken and fierce at the same time. She wasn’t guarded, but surprisingly candid about her experiences. My memory of her on that day remains the epitome of owning your truth.
I really loved how you talked about the events leading up to nipplegate . The tone , the music, about the heart beat sound effect really got me hooked!
Omg I’m so fired up after watching this!! Wtf!! I didn’t know a whole lot about what happened here but thanks for the deep dive. Janet Jackson is a damn legend, I’m so sad this went down the way it did.
I don't think people know how bad this ruined Janet's career. She released an album in 2001 with a single that became one her most successful songs and broke multiple airplay records and topping the charts for seven weeks. The album had the second highest opening week sales for a female artist at the time and all the success she had for almost TWENTY YEARS vanished after the Superbowl. She is such a major influence to so many artists that appeared after her and she doesn't get the credit she absolutely deserves because these old men in power blocked her music for several years from the media
You should watch 'Framing Britney Spears' I am person who doesn't hate anyone, but I hate Justin Timberlake after watching 'Framing Britney Spears' and now this.
Janet is the most incredible musical genius. And the way they treated a talented black female icon after she was shamed in her own show on her own stage was horrific. Just imagine if it happened to you. And how there continues to be zero lack of accountability on the part of the white male whose hand was responsible for that moment is beyond me. Why was it ok for interviewers and writing to take at worst a victim shaming, and at best an insulting approach with their words. Has this even changed at all today? How do we make it change and how to be bring honor to someone as amazing as Janet for being so graceful under such disgusting attack? I love that Johnny went back to this to shine a light on this moment.
she quite literally created the modern blueprint for pop and r&b sonically and visually. to have had someone who pioneered so much of what artists are doing today but have your legacy stripped from for you for an accident because youre a woman of color is so American. imagine being the first mainstream artist to mix hip hop into pop bring dum machines and rap vocals in her Control album which also created New Jack Swing, a new a genre. Janet wasnt JUST ANOTHER dancing, extragavant, sexual pop artist, she created that kind of pop star. KPop, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, Britney, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, NYSNYC, Backstreet Boys, Ciara, Usher, Aaliyah, TLC, Salt n Pepa, New Edition, New Kids On The Block, Tinashe, Normani, FKA Twigs, Bruno Mars, etc., etc. are all using her blueprint and there is documented footage of these artists saying how much they were inspired by Janet's artistry. Critics even agree that her influence is greater than that of Michael and Madonna in our current world in terms of visuals AND sounds. She was a trailblazer and ahead of her time in terms of what she spoke of lyrically (depression, racism, female sexuality), her visual concepts (grand stage shows and elaborate choreography and videos) and genre-bending sounds which is all the norm now.
Most of the western world was baffled by the US's reaction to this. I remember thinking at the time that there was something seriously wrong with Americans. Sadly, I think that this bias against women is worldwide.
@Crystal Kanashii what? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say When people say “black people are different” well that’s very vague observation since that result just depends on context. It just depends what you mean by that. Like if you think they’re inferior that’s definitely racist, but that isn’t the automatic intention of that opinion. And men & women are different... But they are also similar and the same in a lot of aspects, that is humanity wise. But what I’m trying to say is that when this is said, it’s to showcase that men and woman are not the same creatures, because they have differences. And it’s based upon these differences which this comment is made. Since you cannot treat them like they are the same when they aren’t the same. And quite literally designed to serve different roles. But of course most roles are possible from either gender so this isn’t a revolutionary opinion, merely just emphasising justice over equity.
@Crystal Kanashii Huh? 'I think women and men are different' is just an observation of reality, if there were no differences between women and men, nobody would bother to identify as one or the other, nor would anyone be trans. - Of course, you could be talking about biological sex, not gender. But while race isn't 'real' (in the sense that our groupings of people based on phenotype are pretty arbitrary), biological sex _is_ .
I never knew how bad it was for her. I had no idea this was why she vanished so quickly. How horrible. I feel so bad for her. Completely unfair. Why were people framing their questions to her like that!?!?!
the media does this all the time, for everything, like if bernie sanders comes onto a show they'll ask him "why are you a communist", if a palestinian guy comes on they ask him "do you support killing of israeli civilian"
You ask why is it we give different type of attention to men and women, why - this is pure sexism! All of the language points to the fact that women are treated as sexualized objects which warrants a certain type of scrutiny: bodily composition, what she wears, how she smells, how she sounds, her use of makeup, etc - all of this is more important than what she says or does. We start to notice it, because women have won back their right for expression, their freedom from patriarchical definitions. And when half of humanity is liberated from oppression and feels intrinsically entitled to freely manifest themselves, it's a great victory for all of us.
When Justin Timberlake was the performer for the Super Bowl half time a few years ago, my aunt and one of my female cousins and I talked about how crazy it was that he was allowed to perform at the Super Bowl again, yet Janet Jackson essentially lost her career over the incident.
exactly. And he disrespected ANOTHER artist, Prince. Exploiting his death and doing a fake collab, when he himself said he hates when ppl do collabs with dead artists.
Even as a kid I was like "But JT did the thing" whats with that. And that Letterman clip saying 'that's almost malfunctioning, wowee, btw you smell great" is the single most cringy thing ever, ew. Poor Janet looks SO uncomfortable.
Wow Johnny, this video honestly makes me want to cry with how validated I feel. To hear this from a fellow creator who has not just noticed it but who has researched and called out the bad behaviour in a beautifully presented package is so powerful. It’s always something I heavily suspected but it’s wonderfully relieving to hear someone else say it. Thank you!
The reactions of Justin and Janet are also particularlily interesting. Janet instantly freaks out as she realizes what happened, while Just just stands there and stares at her breast as if this was exactly what he expected to happen.
I grew up in a world where Janet was not popular anymore and couldn't understand why all my faves would mention her as an inspiration. I always thought she was just the "sister of". Now I realise how big she was before this performance.
@@tennesseeminnissi2445 It’s not as obvious to other people as it may be to you. I’m 20 and my knowledge of her before watching the vid was that she was Michael Jackson’s sister who also happened to make music. That’s about it.
She looked genuinely embarrassed when letterman commented on her chest showing. Honestly she really could be innocent and the politicians were Jenks as always
She stated "it was meant to happen but like it just meant to show my bra" but she wasn't wearing a bra??? So means she expected it happen cause how can you not know you're not wearing a bra???
@@DpsRagerTM watch the video again, notice the red lace. it looks like he was supposed to just pull off the black part leaving the red "bra" exposed. He pulled off the entire thing.
I literally gagged when Letterman followed that comment with "you smell wonderful by the way" If that doesn't prove Johnny's entire point, idk what does. Absolutely disgusting
I applaud you for making this video. Thank you for covering this in a way I hadn't seen before, and in a way that was greatly needed. Thank you for having respect for women. Your voice is greatly appreciated!
As a doctoral student in linguistics -- specifically syntax and semantics -- it's really, really cool to encounter a story that so robustly (and quite knowledgeably) recognizes the role of minute linguistic details in how we frame stories about the world (and subsequently our understanding of that world). Very nicely done!
We have a history of sexualizing women, shaming them for it, and letting the men walk away blameless. Janet felt the weight, exploitation, and criticism of the media as so many women do everyday.
@@audreyelizabeths I wouldn't blame it on race/ religion/ skin color... She literally wanted to forget that thing and everybody asked her about it. How she felt in those moments... Shame on people, who started talking about it.
Maybe it's because the thing was planned to happen prior. I don't think either of them deserve to be shamed, but according to Janet she was supposed to have bra underneath and she accidentally didn't. I don't think Janet should've been shamed, but Justin did nothing wrong here.
@@cornheadahh I don't think she didn't have bra on. I think the idea was that he rip the black part of her outfit off and the red underneath was supposed to be revealed but instead both came off
@@lady0shady : I would blame it on race because you could see half of white woman's breast on TV every day. The US has a major race issue. White people and black people are treated differently with ethnic Asians painted as the model minority and people from India or Pakistan as the collateral H1B1 job taking scapegoats.
So 2021 is the year we all become aware of how justin timberlake literally used more popular and more successful women to step in the way and make his own career. Jackson and Spears lost everything so he could sing, act in movies and be a proud boy. What a great guy..
@@yusufelsawi5334 hi yusuf have you seen the 2021 documentary about Britney Spears ? I would recommend it. It’s not about her work not being good. My comment is about how he used his relationship to get notoriety even when he knew it completely hurt Britney’s credibility/reputation.
I think about it. Could be totally wrong. It wasnt his mistake either. Dude's literally not been cancelled. and is very much celebrated. I dont follow his music either way, not because of reasons as such but for the music itself. I am shocked how Taylor swift deems him as her crush and stuff. I love her music and see her as a good role model.
I remember that! But I'm from Poland, and many newspapers blamed... Justin, for the whole situation. No kidding. It seems that foreign country behaved better than Janet's own.
Whoa.. Catholic country and yet..?!! Now that's a progress! See! Atheists are bunch of immatures in highly-assorted skin. So.. May you please arrange for some pre-existing collection of outputs by Polish news-media?
The irony is that we “analyze” women over everything EXCEPT when it comes to actual data for anything that matters. Every industry and area of life has massive gender data gaps that disproportionately effects women negatively. The book “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez is an exceptional look at this.
@@Nazxvn Sure! There are so many :) What Works - Iris Bonnet, Difficult Women - Helen Lewis, Women & Power - Julia Gillard, Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
Hi @@СвободадляроссииI'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The gender pay gap is a widely accepted fact on all sides of politics across the globe. The global gender pay gap currently stands at 37.8% (it varies hugely from country to country, being 18.1% in the UK; 23% in Australia; and 59.6% in Angola). This is exacerbated when you factor in things like underpaid labor, child care, and gendered poverty and health standards. It is not a myth, but rather something to address and solve. However, when people men come across someone trying to level the playing field, it’s often all read it as bias in the opposite direction.
@@ChadBarnier Of course the wage gap itself does exist. However all the mainstream conclusions drawn from its existence are bone-headed and lazy at best or malicious at worst, because it is always made out as an issue of discrimination and sexism while there are thousands of other factors of greater importance involved. This wouldn't happen if womens issues did not receive overproportional attention.
I'm a huge fan of yours. And this video, and your reaction to it at the end, stands out as being the best to me. The way you spoke about Iz's videos, struck me. It's spot on. And your passion and honesty hit me harder in this video than any of your others for some reason. Brilliant work.
@@johnnyharris We talk about female being scrutinized, but their are people like you who talk about these happenings. Just imagine about living in a country where everyone is scrutinizing you, you do anything you would be laughed at - that's homophobia in India..... And it was not like this before British arrived with their section 377. Ancient India was LGBTQ friendly. I beg you to make a video about homophobia in India.
It's also normal in workplace. Men that ambitious or vocal are normal. But when it's me, a woman, my boss will say you're having an attitude problem. thanks God, I'm not working there anymore.
On one hand the blind outrage was prolly both racist and misogynistic. On the other hand from the sources I could find it was mostly orchestrated by her and her stylist. Sounds like the people accidentally blamed the right person for all the wrong reasons..
Best video so far! I totally see the same thing with me and my girlfriend. Both of us create content - and she gets the majority of hate comments on the Internet. It’s really sad to see. Love how you framed this video.
As a woman myself we literally can’t do ANYTHING without getting made fun of and analyzed for it. Our hair, bodies personality, face etc. You don’t even have to be famous either people will make fun of you and shove you in a box weather your famous or not. You’ll be shamed for anything you do. Thank you so much for making this.
thank you for this "simple and clever explanation of this important concept in politics and media!" it helped me see things better not just in this event, but in many others !!
The clips of David Letterman "interviewing" Janet Jackson make me want to crawl into a hole. I keep seeing more clips of his show resurface from this era with this same level of harassment toward female guests. I get why his show was never allowed on in our house.
@Asphincter says what? Not convinced though. It wasn't dumb comments, those were inappropriate & your example tells how different he treated his male guest & female guest.
Oh, the breast in question certainly became infamous because of this event, no doubt about it. But, more to the point, it wasn't infamous in the slightest before Timberlake exposed it!
@@johnnyharris @Johnny Harris We talk about female being scrutinized, but their are people like you who talk about these happenings. Just imagine about living in a country where everyone is scrutinizing you, you do anything you would be laughed at - that's homophobia in India..... And it was not like this before British arrived with their section 377. Ancient India was LGBTQ friendly. I beg you to make a video about homophobia in India.
They both do international-isque videos, but Johnny is more travel with a political POV, shifting to more politics content, where Iz is more straight travel, shifting from international to local, both because COVID. Iz is also more about more-private/open-up content. Johnny is more world events, sometimes throwing a second POV or just more in depth.
That’s because he had more recent research material made in the same format he wanted to make this video in(other UA-cam videos of the same exact topic) so it probs saved him a lot of time compared to this one where he had to dig up a bit more.
It's not a coincidence that a Black women got blamed while a white men benefited off the incident. Racism and sexism is whats causing this type of language. And this language furthers these social structures.
as a woman, thank you for talking how hard it is for us to do anything without people talking how our clouths are inappropriate, how we're not profissional enough, or how we dont care about our appearance if we dont have make up on or our hair is undone but we're trying to share a mensage, not a look.
I'm always confused when people say this. Men literally have no choice what to wear to their job. Trousers and a shirt. Always. Women can wear pants, skirts, dresses, tights, loose... cleavage is fine, legs showing is fine. Have you ever seen a man wearing shorts and a tank top in a professional situation? I haven't. Yes women are judged too much by their appearance, but if anybody is discriminated against for clothes in professional or schooling situations it's men. I have literally been sent home for wearing shorts while female colleagues wore skirts the same length.
@@ef4947 these are different things society see women as dolls, manequins, not humans and men are labeled as weirdos when they use whatever they want, but still seen as human. but feminism fight against it too! its sexism fault, we have rules how we should live and behave because of our sexes and its so powerful it also affects men. feminism fights for things that will benefit men too and make the whole society a better place to live
@@leticia-ut3oc Absolutely, i agree entirely with you. I don't disgree on the existence and the extent of sexism. There's just one thing I always found remarkable. Let me start by saying I believe anybody should be able to walk around the streets naked without being harrassed. Having said that: Women receive exponentialy more slack for the clothes they wear, but the clothes they wear are on average also exponentialy more revealing. In my experience - only man in my family, father died young so it was me, my mom, my sisters and my aunts and their daughters - the most emotionaly harmful comments on appearance throughout the lives of my sisters have all been from women. Men have behaved like pigs, assholes and idiots - but as far as judging by appearance it's mostly women perpetuating this culture. I was a punk when I was a teen so always looked rather shabby. I can also say my own personal experience is that women were much harsher about judging my appearance than men were. In the same way I never understood why men that are quick to say they don't put up with sexist behaviour also don't seem to call out their friends who do show this kind of behaviour. Just like there are so many asshole men, there are just as many asshole women. Unfortunately, being an asshole is something that is hard to unlearn :( I'm glad society is starting to normalize calling assholes out, but sometimes I fear that the labeling of an entire gender group as the culprit and another the victim is just creating distance between all the non-assholes that should all be uniting and joining forces against the assholes instead. Does this make sense?
I love how he gets defensive over Iz for a minute there, like.. "Don't you dare think about leaving a mean comment on her videos like she doesn't read them.. well she might not. But I will." Honestly if my future husband ain't gonna be like that I ain't marrying him.
@@amitsharda8198 I guess you never put yourself in others shoe. There is never a complete right and complete wrong in morality. Even the USA collected data of the limits of human from Nazis and released them
can we take a minute to appreciate that he titled the video "How Justin Timberlake Escaped #NippleGate" and not something like "How #NippleGate ruined Janet Jackson's Career"
He laid a question upon us. To those adamant and appalled by how we objectify women in media. Certainly in the comment section like clockwork there will be comments about the visuals of a woman or her characteristics that appeal or not appeal to the audience while her topic and what she speaks on is a minor infraction to what is perceived. I am one of those who he calls upon. Appalled by the audacity of people to be that shallow upon women. Focusing on their voice or visuals so that the *CONTENT* of her voice is drowned out by misplaced criticism. Both by men and women in the audience. I do not want to sit on my moral high horse and say i never once objectified women. No. I did as often as the context implies it. When the objective of the content is objectification like a beauty pageant, or a beauty contest, or modelling, etc. But in reporting, news, journalism, performance art, written and audible content, women are so much more of what they have or what they are or who they are. They are, at that point what they extrapolate as their content. Do not misuse criticism to detract attention to their voice(the audible facet) from their voice(the content). They need both but requires focus on the latter. We need to speak up about their topics as much as we do with men. And this is not only a lip service for men but is as much as for women as women themselves are much more harsher critics of other women.
i asked my mom if she remembered this. she remembered how janet was ridiculed and how her career was over. i asked her if she remembered anything or anyone else and she said no, it’s unfortunate what happened to her but it happens. i had to tell her about justin 😭😭
@@GrzegorzDurda umm you don’t know what you’re talking about. She had an album go platinum that same year, another one go platinum two years later, and another one go gold after that. And this was all despite being blacklisted by major tv and radio stations
Janet's career is not and never be over she had hits after this... this is a white person's narrative. Janet is a legend and we didn't care about nipples. We still.love her
I don't think people know how bad this ruined Janet's career. She released an album in 2001 with a single that became one her most successful songs and broke multiple airplay records and topping the charts for seven weeks. The album had the second highest opening week sales for a female artist at the time and all the success she had for almost TWENTY YEARS vanished after the Superbowl. She is such a major influence to so many artists that appeared after her and she doesn't get the credit she absolutely deserves because these old men in power blocked her music for several years from the media
I didn’t even know Justin Timberlake was involved in this. I never watched it actually go down... I thought it was just a nipslip... what the fuck Justin...
I loved that at the beginning the I thought the topic looked so trivial, but your ending conclusions were great. It's horrible how society judges women differently, it doesn't care what they say, it's how they do it. Thanks a lot for your video
Both the race and the sex of the two involved were factors. If it was a black man and a white women, like say Usher and Madonna, it would've been a lot more difficult for Usher to make it out unscathed and Madonna would've been more likely treated as a victim even with her past stunts.
I remember when this happened and 14 year old me thought Justin Timberlake was a jerk and it just grew over time because I never heard him apologize. And than the last straw was his super bowl with Prince.
Well a quick google search shows that he performed something and had a prince hologram during some NFL show Idk NFL blocked video to youtube or something. But prince thought the shit was demonic so ppl freaked out. Idk how it would have been a last straw because hes obviously not cancelled. I hate this existence man. Mfr
I'm happy to see I'm not the only one that has noticed how the Internet reacts to women doing anything. I've been seeing it for years now, but I never see anyone talk about it.
This comment cracks me up. You've never seen anyone talk about it? You mean you've never seen any white man talk about it, cause women have been saying it for years. It's kinda sad, but it's prove that point that men only listen to other men and ignores women's voices, but it's a good thing that men start mobilizing their privilege to talk about this stuff. It would be nice to credit all the people who have adressed this before him though.
@@hamilcross I can't force people, let alone a specific gender, to exist in my social circles. Let alone ones that are content creators. So I don't know what you want me to do here.
@@nikomo I don't want to go full psychotherapist here, but you're right in that you should not force other people to do anything. Respecting other people's boundaries is important. UA-cam is great in that there are countless of women creating content out there, and as a viewer you get to hear about their experiences, and maybe understand them a little bit better, even though you might not have women in your own social circles. The same goes for all the people whose life experiences might be different from yours, whether they have a sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religion different than your own. There is a lot of content out there that could all help us understand each other better
Hey, I've been binge watching you videos for a couple of days. I don't know how voluntary it is, but I think it's brilliant for a video that denounces (in a way) that women are criticized for their appearance much more than men that it is in this video that you seem "the most neglected" (messy hair, loose sweater, slightly bent posture,...) and for what I saw, you had no comments about it :) I thought that was fun. Anyway, good job ! I love watching your videos
- As a journalist, * vigorously taking notes * - As a woman who is also on camera recently and seeing what's happening to women in my country, around me and to my friends.. blood hell. This brought me to tears. This video is much needed... particularly during these times. Thank you, thank you for this video
I imagine the sexualization of women here in the US - increasingly by women themselves- is not helping your situation there. You are a journalist? Then be not a professional female journalist, but a professional journalist. We are here to learn about what happened, not start an intimate relationship with you. How you look should have nothing to do with the story. But that's not what you need to learn. That's what everyone who watches you should have known already. I'm not sure what else to say. This is a cultural issue, but I guess the counter argument is always you have to start somewhere. It was great to see guys among the protesters following those couple of events in India a couple years back. Good luck with your work. Stay strong.
The most confusing thing about this worlds society is that people seem to care when it's a female boob What if the genders were swapped and Justin showed his nipple? Nobody would care, they would have that it was part of the show What's worse? A guy with no shirt on walking down the street or a woman with no shirt on walking down he street?
Are you from a different country? The US is much more conservative in certain ways when compared with other parts of the world. In other countries, nude beaches are common. This doesn't happen in America. It is sort of similar to how you cannot show your shoulders, as a women, in certain churches. Different cultures/organizations have developed different standards of what is considered acceptable.
The whole episode I was like “why is his hair sticking up when he always has it so neat in his other videos?” But then I get to the end and he’s talking about how there are comments about women’s appearance instead of the substance and I start wondering if that was the point. But a quick skim of the comments no one is talking about it. So maybe it was on purpose and maybe not but I guess it proves his point.
yeah, till this day i felt like it just an overreacting, wardrobe malfunction goes wrong and should be leave at it, but i didn't know why you add "violence on tv is ok" what's the point bringing that up ? did you mean it's not ok to watch patrick got smashed to a mountain and ended up in pieces ?
@@Apudurangdinya I think what he wanted to say, is that American censorship is very weird. American censors are extremely sensitive to nudity and swearing, more extreme than other countries in the world, but the levels for violence are more relaxed than other countries. The tolerance is very dispropotionate between different categories.
Love that you’re talking about this. I felt this way in church with purity culture - the responsibility usually falls on females to not ״make men stumble”. Men are often tisked while women are ruined. It happens in the world like you said with Monica L, and others. Fault falls on women.
Well I'm a Muslim and it's exactly as you describe it in church, if a man lust for a woman it's the woman fault, man has no responsibility and I think its more my society believes than religious beliefs cause I heard same story from Japanese friends
nas taran thank you for making that point. I have seen it in many cultures too - I am glad you brought that up. It for sure is a human issue. The war on women has been heartbreaking to witness over the centuries. My concern is that if this is what we are discussing with what happens in public, what happens in private? The undetected abuse that goes on in homes is heartbreaking and needs to change. It starts with this mindset we’ve seen right here.
This plus what he did to Britney... Justin is always getting away with the awful things he does while the women he uses are incredibly affected by the situation, so unfair. And poor Janet, the world should apologise to her 😩
Exactly! I am old enough to remember when this happened and I saw how Justin stood back and let Janet take all of the blame. I lost all respect for him after this.
As a 40 something woman I find it very strange people both blame a young 20 year old man for Janet's admitted planned stunt, but also think he was in some position to make some authoritative comment and "save" Janet from all this. Janet was a whole entire grown-ass woman (Miss Janet if you're nasty) and the problem was the outrage coming from the public
As a 40 something year old woman with a 20 something year old son, he was definitely capable of saying “I pulled off too much fabric.” Instead, he went on about his life as if he wasn’t even there instead of being a decent human being and acknowledging his part in the incident.
@@yoohootube Are you sure you're 40 cause you don't sound like one. Also Justin was a grown ass man too. He wasn't some 12 yr old kid that had no choice, he was 20 and 20 is not a kid, he was perfectly capable of making his own decisions. If it was planned then it clearly involved them both. He was happy to pull off the act but wasn't ready to share the consequences. That says a lot about his character. If he was a decent person, he would've apologized or atleast gave an explanation instead of saying something dumb like "hey man, i gave you something to talk about". He washed his hands off of this incident like he had nothing to do with it, like he wasn't the one who ripped off Janet's clothes. While poor Janet was trashed and her career was ruined. This whole incident could've gone so differently if he had spoken up for Janet or atleast offered some explanation.
@@yukihoon994 I'm confused. wasn't it an accident? he didn't mean to pull off all the fabric, and Janet didn't even have her boob show because she had something covering it. the whole thing seemed kinda planned to be honest. it happened years ago why do we even care?
Thank you for making this video. As a woman, if I were to have explained this in the exact same words my experience would be denied, I would be mansplained to, threatened with violence, or (best case scenario) ignored. Maybe with a man saying this other men might listen. No one's going to question your credibility.
@@psychegoddessoflight9358 but Janet said it was supposed to happen, she just didn't want her titi showing, she wanted it to her her bra!, don't you understand SHE WANTED IT TO HAPPEN
@@nigelmushonga3772 I wasn’t actually making a statement on Janet, only providing the name for what had been described by the OP in case they hadn’t encountered the term before. Janet said that they had planned for a FAUX exposure to happen. Her bra was meant to be exposed, not the whole breast. Now, we can debate the legitimacy of that, as she was wearing an intricate nipple cover of an 8-pointed star, a symbol often used in occult practices to summon the ancient goddess deity Semiramis (same as the logo for the CIA). And ALL of the Super Bowl halftime shows are thinly disguised occult rituals. Janet & Justin’s faces look genuinely shocked when her breast falls out...but they’re entertainers, so who knows? Maybe Janet was in on it, and agreed in advance to be thrown under the bus. Maybe the spirit entities they summoned had a hand in switching things up. That’s why it’s not wise to play with the occult. We will likely never know for certain. But even if Janet had agreed to take all the hits, it’s still arguably due to the subtle (and not so subtle) negativity toward black women that allowed everyone to go blindly along with the “Bad Janet, innocent Justin” narrative. I’m not a fan of the constant victimization happening today, but that doesn’t mean some of the complaints aren’t valid.
The whole video breaks down so beautifully evidence of how sexism is enacted through words throughout our history/media - backed with facts. (And you briefly showed many other examples too - Britney Spears, Monika Lewinsky etc. to highlight the pattern) there are still people in the comments and its replies arguing about letterman and generalizing against "men" (or society) as the same thing. It just shows people simply aren't willing to understand HISTORICAL realities, contexts and structures of sexism and racism and its impacts. Thanks for doing your bit. You do such an honest job of bringing people to the point and leaving it as a question so people get to think about it themselves. You inspire me to continue journalism. What independent journalists and company's like VOX do is amazing!
Sigh!!!!! "Sexism". Really. After all of this thats that's the ism you think was the cause of what happened to that queen. Bet you think it was " toxic masculinity that got George Floyd killed to. SMH.
@@marquisinternational941 it's sexism and racism - in janets case. But the media did the same with Britney, Lewinsky and more. It's not limited to one "ism".
She was assaulted, really - and then was treated as the "temptress." There's a combination of misogyny and racism here. It's not about shining a spotlight, they treat her as a temptress. And she's black. In today's "Me too" movement she'd have sued for assault. Not been victimized as a temptress. Thanks for the analysis and all the context. I'd just moved to the US then, and this is the first time I followed the story in detail.
It would only be assault, if someone rigged the stunt in some way. Who would she sue for assault? Maybe Justin if he did something other than he was supposed to, but I think if her costume was made and put on correctly, there is very little, he could have done wrong.
Thank you for saying this because I know ppl can say ‘I don’t know why she was treated like this...’ yeah we do know, we know exactly why she was treated like this. But I’m glad Johnny framed it like this because it forces ppl to see the facts and not be able to manipulate them.
Definitely not assault. Even she noted it was planned as a stunt, but it clearly didn't work as intended. That means that whole grabbing and yanking of the cup was planned out, so common sense clearly proves that claim to be false. And I do not see the connection between what you said here and racism, unless it's just you seeing it as that because she happens to be black and have received the treatment and perception she did for what happened. But I guarantee especially back then, if she was white, the same shit would've happened from this anyway, as Johnny clearly shows us in the video.
@@takunyamu9688 You're welcome. "Assault" may have been too strong a term - but I was trying to shed light on the fact that if there was any wrong at all, it came from Timberlake. If you see a rape victim and her clothes are ripped off, you don't call her a "sl*t."
"that's almost malfunctioning, isn't it?" -David Letterman Janet, just forced to laugh awkwardly, because she knows how this person perceives her and how this interview goes will have a direct impact on her career, which is now under incredible scrutiny because of this "scandal" which is being 100% blamed on her. Ugh 🤢🤮 as you peel back all the layers, it just gets worse and worse...
Right and then the audience just cheers and applauds. I felt absolutely sick. Imagine having to sit there and smile through all that when you've just gotten into one of the worst "scandals" over your left tit. I can't.
I was close to Justin's age when this happened and it was crazy. The media couldn't stop talking about it. I always felt it was a stunt! It was blew way out of portion. I loved TRL!!
Miss Janet has been my favorite singer since I was a little girl and hated how she was treated. I didn’t realize the extent back then because she still had play on black radio and tv but this is so crazy. Thank you for shedding light on details many have forgotten or weren’t aware.
When that chat show host said “by the way, you smell wonderful” I fucking recoiled in horror and exclaimed “that’s fucking terrifying”. Honestly that was gross as fuck. It’s entirely upsetting how there’s two standards
@@ElectroIsMyReligion not everyone is familiar with American late night talk show hosts. I think him using the term "chat show" instead of "late night" indicates he's British.
14:15 I used to pick apart women too for the longest until I realised I never did that to men Even stuff like *"that news lady's hair is so gorgeous"* and never saying anything about the actual news she was delivering I had been raised to take men more seriously than women, but once you realise *you're part of the problem* it's easier to resist it
@Johnny Harris, WOW!! I've never seen your channel or heard of you prior to watching this video , you're a great Journalist👍. You're spot on, Janet Jackson was humiliated then punished for something caused by Justin who never once received any penalty and the worst part about it he's so cocky that he felt no need to apologize he got all the kudo points primarily by majority males. I've never liked Justin Timberlake non whatsoever but Janet Jackson still continues to be one of my favorite artist, I still play every single album she's ever made and always will.
You know whats wild? I wasn't old enough to really fully understand whats going on either, I'm not even from the US, but I still distinctly remember this happening with the tiny little detail that Justin Timberlake was completley absent from my memory of this! I always thought it was a wardrobe malfunction, because thats how I perceived the reports about it. Pretty much proves your point.
Same. I didn't watch the event (also, am not from the US) but read about it. My understanding at the time was that her clothes just fell off while she was dancing.
🤔i see, so thats how mind controlling works. Words do have power indeed.
It was very obviously planned to go exactly the way it did. When there was public backlash Janet Jackson had to say publicly that it wasn't meant to happen like that. But I think people saw through the lie.
I can agree with some of the points overall, as I don't think Janet Jackson should have gotten in trouble over this, but neither should Justin Timberlake.
Seeing this from an arab country , when i see how the media is treating obama and hillary and their roles in the creation of isis , supporting extremists and overthrowing dictatorships to transition to more chaos and wars , obama bombed syria and allowed the bombing of yemen and libya...... He is far worse than any other predident we have ever seen .but still the media kept defending him and supporting his decisions arguing that middle east is to much complicated isn't it the same as the topic you are talking about with obama and trump one who kept the arab world more peaceful against someone who lied to go to wars in name of democracy . I see what is hapenning now in the arab world and i know it is still bad but it was way to much better before obama came to power
Even as someone from the US who watched the Super Bowl that year, my memory is with TImberlake being completely absent. It's amazing how much of the conversation surrounding the event changes recollection completely. I honestly feel embarrassed and it's more validation I have biases to be more aware of.
He never once spoke on her behalf, he never came to her defense, he simply washed his hands and walked away!
!save
He apologized recently but it was decades later and it's so messed up he got to return while Janet was banned
yeah a real stand up guy
Probably his pr agents
I'm sure who ever he was signed to at the time wouldn't have let him even if he wanted to.
He filmed this in his pjs with bedhead on purpose to see if we would talk about it or not, and so far we aren't, thus proving his point.
ohhhhh thats why he was in his PJs... i thought it was because of the lock down... i mean .. after a whole year WFH, PJs feel like regular clothing to me
I've seen a few comments about hair, but I didn't even notice those were PJs. They're really nice lmao
Brilliant
Maybe that explains why the Apple logo keeps bobbing around in the background
I noticed since the beginning that he wears pjs but wondering why until the end of the video. what a good point johnny tries to show
I do find it funny how other nations reacted to this "controversy" New Zealand was especially funny about it all..... "Oh there was a boob on tv and the Americans are losing their mind over that rather then the invasion of Iraq"
Not a direct quote but that was the commentary in some newspaper years ago
yes I remember comments like this too, like how americans loose their minds over a boob but have no problem with seeing extreme violence in their entertainment. it was almost juvenile
@@卩丨尺卂卂-d8u *lose
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I'm also in NZ and as i remember it, our media was much less mysogynistic about it. That could be just me though.
My favourite is the Lucy Lawless one though. Not sure how she managed to get out of that one unscathed.
That's hilarious
She appears so uncomfortable from the interview clips... I honestly feel so bad for her
Micheal Powell FCC director is the one who ruined her career thoOoo
@Jane
It’s almost like it was a humiliation ritual.
@@uok6216
Clearly for her.
@@weldmachine What are you talking about? She didn’t “get what she was looking for” and she obviously didn’t want the massive amount of negative “attention” and hate she got. At 4:16 he explained how the stunt went wrong and she was accidentally fully exposed.
@@blue1584
As much as this topic was interesting when i wrote my comment.
I have already got over it.
Maybe you should do the same.
Thanks for your reply ??
I thought it was so weird that everyone was talking so poorly of her. She literally looked so shocked. You can actually see her going through a freakout before realizing what had happened.
she did say it was part of the plan for Justin to pull the cover off, even though there was meant to be a bra covering underneath. She is not free from blame.
@@cybertroy2 You are part of the reason why she was blamed. Please link where you got the info. Don't pop up reasonings out of nowhere.
@@cybertroy2 what blame, my dude? Just...eww
simp.
EDIT: ment to say SIMPS since theres more than one of you :D
Again time period, people didn't have access to the footage like they do today and mostly only read about it if they didn't see it live I'm guessing.
I think we’ve gone full circle here:
“The founder of UA-cam actually said in an interview that one of the reason he started UA-cam was because of this moment… he literally invented UA-cam to solve the problem.”
And earlier “And yes; I’m blurring this; I have to, it’s UA-cam and I just have to blur this moment.”
But in one of his other videos (Where the US Hides its Secrets), he shows a picture of a naked enslaved woman in Liberia. I guess it’s cool, so long as she’s a slave, right?
@@pariscarr I have no idea. I was just pointing out that UA-cam have failed to solve the problem it was invented to.
@Fahad Khan nah UA-cam in the early days you could put anything on, the thing is he never expected youtube to expand so exponentially it is now larger than life. When a business model like yt expands, they need corporate sponsors and corporate sponsers are anal about this sort of thing so they can appeal to the biggest market audience.
At the end everything stems from a profit motive. Whether you are provocative or non-provocative, whichever brings in the dough.
@@pariscarr Well I think ,the depiction of slave women was used for educational purposes
@@fareehaxoxo8568 could argue that this video is educational so it should be fine as well. I wonder whether there's a point in time where it's accepted? Like if the Janet Jackson video happened 200 years ago, would it be fine to show uncensored? Or perhaps because it's a raw video, it's somehow different to an illustration/drawing?
I feel so sorry for Janet. Imagine how people could paint such an untrue story, and it still passed....
they ve done the same to Britney Spears, Michael Jackson and I am sure there are others
I was always mad people blamed Janet and not Justin. I showed up to my daughter’s skating lesson and the moms said dont you hate Janet Jackson. I said, I could NEVER hate Janet Jackson
Dumb moms
Jealous mums 😂
She was also responsible, but she already more than paid for it. Justin just now.
“Paying” how, for starters - "@@waranghira"?
@@maazkalim Isn't he being cancelled recently? Like for Britney for example. Like how this video is also a testament of that?
Does anyone else think it’s weird how all these songs talked about getting naked and no one was offended by that but they got offended by the wardrobe malfunction
Yeah, he actually mentioned that in the video.
The seret truth is that very few people were genuinely offended by it, it's all an act. It all starts with people seeing a vulnerable target that they think makes themselves look bigger to bring down a few pegs. She's a celebrity, which breeds jealousy, in many cases compounded with varying levels of racism and mysogeny which breeds resentment and a desire to put her "back in her place". Once all this is set in motion, there's also a degree of social mirroring, where people subconsciously see others react a certain way and mirror it in a desire to get positive social reactions, as well as the appeal of gossip in wanting to be one to share some juicy news with others.
I literally just basically said the exact same thing! LoL glad I'm not the only sighted person here! 😁
@@grapenut6094 Nothing you said is relevant. What was fucked up about this situation is that Justin Timberlake, the guy that physically exposed her breast, suffered 0 negative consequences for this incident (and wasn't even mentioned in a significant portion of the reporting on the incident), while Janet's career was ruined for a long time. Justin Timberlake was half the equation, why was he not also black listed?
@@choronos Couldve come down to something as simple as her pissing off the wrong group of people who knows. Though if Justin was the one who was exposed to the entire world I doubt he'd have gotten off scott free either, that kinda thing tends to invite bad press lol
Those Letterman clips, and Janet's "shoot me now" face hit me hard... She deserved so much better, damn
This combined with the letterman with Lindsay lohan clips going around make me wonder why this guy was so revered
@@wrathika fuck letterman.
As a husband who loves my wife and a father of girls, the way women are portrayed really is upsetting to me. Women deserve to be treated fairly. I was upset when Mr. Timberlake wasn't held responsible for his action.
Bruh Janet literally asked him not to say anything about the incident she wrote it in her book
Timberlake is a tool
That's not the point. Whether Timberlake had anything to do with Janet's portrayal or the incident is inconclusive at best.
@@fdjsjakks603 yeah Janet says everywhere please blame me and then suddenly all journalist
dont mansion the Justin !
how dumb are you bro ?did you watch the video !?
Janet was shown as she wanted to be with the exception of one half of a second. Condemn who you will, the item came off to expose as if it was made to. Janet has removed her clothes countless times for publicity and or money, as a result she’s noted for it. Hilary Clinton is not bothered with her sex pic’s because she has none. Intelligent women with self respect and modesty are not the same as a playboy bunny, and I like the bunnies to be clear.
I remember when it happened, it was all over Fox News for weeks (I know 🙄). I distinctly remember my mom saying “of course she planned it. She pierced her nipples. She obviously wanted people to see it” I think that’s how a lot of people remember it. Just blaming Janet 100%.
100% tru
We were all talking about it at the lunch table the next day in elementary school.
I remember her look of utter shock. He was the one who ripped her shirt off, it’s crazy how people twisted it.
American society is way too obsessed with women's nipples. In Africa, Europe and South America nipples just body parts. They shouldn't have pandered to Conservatives, puritans and prudes. If the world was up to them, women would still be wearing dresses that do not show their ankles just like in Victorian times. It's just a nipple.
I remember my Mum saying, "It's just her body, nothing to be ashamed of. I hope they leave her be." American culture looks properly weird to us.
This is not about a boo, it's about a bra. It's a costume malfunction. This is why they do rehearsals.
Remember: Justin was allowed to attend (and perform) at the Grammy’s that year, while Janet was disinvited
F the grammys
😮 what the. That's so wrong.
😦! 🤬!!
Uninvited*
because justin went and "tearfully apologized" to the grammy director i think? the director got offended janet didn't go kiss his ass too and blacklisted her from every viacom channel and every radio station
man I wish Janet had sued the media companies for libel
She should have gone to town. They initiated a witch-hunt and she should have handed it to them....and Justin Timberfake.
She is too sweet and kind.
She should have sued him.
She would loose it. If she could sue them she would, her agent would make sure that happen.
She couldn’t sue because she planned it.
Can we bring Janet back? please
Bring her back from where? She hasn’t gone anywhere. Janet will always be JANET.
Feedback was a sorta hit, but either she couldn't capitalize or the powers that be kept her down during that time.
No.
@@yeahyeah9869 follow your username
@@dominiquepocopio777 same 🤣🤣
Poor Janet, the media owes her an apology.
And a lot of money.
@@luceymonize7197 CBS needs to pay her years worth of damages.
Well no, she said she planned it, or agreed to it, but someone screwed up and the costume did not come out right. What is wrong is that Timberlake got away with it as HE was ALSO was in on the planning of it. What was wrong was CBS's vendetta against her. IE people with power being cowards.
@@w8stral that’s what I said. The media owes her an apology
@@johnasdf3847 Uh, no the media do not owe her an apology. She knowingly participated in the stunt. It went wrong. Whoever made the wardrobe owes her an apology. Justin Timberlake probably does as well. Timberlake should have been raked over the coals as well, but he was early 20's and Jackson was nearly 40 so... kinda gets a pass.
As a woman, who was 34 at the time, I kept asking “why is no one talking about Justin “. It was very frustrating!
I agree! I loved this video but I wish Johnny had named what this is... sexism and racism. Janet's intersectional identity as a Black woman cannot be separated from what she experienced. Also maybe this is nitpicking, but the way men casually say "females" when they could just say "women" makes me cringe.
@@stellaray2383 I personally feel the need to differentiate between adult women and all (women and girls), and contrasting between women and females/girls sounds better to me than contrasting between ladies and women.
ir rlly sucks how it took sooooooo long for the truth to come out
It's a perfect example of misogyny in the media
@Ella71
It was planned. She agreed to do it.
Why do people expect the media to be sensible, ever?
I had the pleasure of interviewing Janet Jackson a few months after, when “Damita Jo” was released and she did a press tour in Europe. We were asked to not talk about “nipple gate”, it was not discussed but Janet was not mincing her words. She was very open about media and people judging her. I had never seen someone being so soft-spoken and fierce at the same time. She wasn’t guarded, but surprisingly candid about her experiences. My memory of her on that day remains the epitome of owning your truth.
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@@just-justice-here what
@@wizzotizzo as at the time of my comment, they were 419 likes
I really loved how you talked about the events leading up to nipplegate . The tone , the music, about the heart beat sound effect really got me hooked!
Omg I’m so fired up after watching this!! Wtf!! I didn’t know a whole lot about what happened here but thanks for the deep dive. Janet Jackson is a damn legend, I’m so sad this went down the way it did.
I don't think people know how bad this ruined Janet's career. She released an album in 2001 with a single that became one her most successful songs and broke multiple airplay records and topping the charts for seven weeks. The album had the second highest opening week sales for a female artist at the time and all the success she had for almost TWENTY YEARS vanished after the Superbowl. She is such a major influence to so many artists that appeared after her and she doesn't get the credit she absolutely deserves because these old men in power blocked her music for several years from the media
You should watch 'Framing Britney Spears'
I am person who doesn't hate anyone, but I hate Justin Timberlake after watching 'Framing Britney Spears' and now this.
Janet is the most incredible musical genius. And the way they treated a talented black female icon after she was shamed in her own show on her own stage was horrific. Just imagine if it happened to you. And how there continues to be zero lack of accountability on the part of the white male whose hand was responsible for that moment is beyond me. Why was it ok for interviewers and writing to take at worst a victim shaming, and at best an insulting approach with their words. Has this even changed at all today? How do we make it change and how to be bring honor to someone as amazing as Janet for being so graceful under such disgusting attack? I love that Johnny went back to this to shine a light on this moment.
she quite literally created the modern blueprint for pop and r&b sonically and visually. to have had someone who pioneered so much of what artists are doing today but have your legacy stripped from for you for an accident because youre a woman of color is so American. imagine being the first mainstream artist to mix hip hop into pop bring dum machines and rap vocals in her Control album which also created New Jack Swing, a new a genre. Janet wasnt JUST ANOTHER dancing, extragavant, sexual pop artist, she created that kind of pop star. KPop, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, Britney, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, NYSNYC, Backstreet Boys, Ciara, Usher, Aaliyah, TLC, Salt n Pepa, New Edition, New Kids On The Block, Tinashe, Normani, FKA Twigs, Bruno Mars, etc., etc. are all using her blueprint and there is documented footage of these artists saying how much they were inspired by Janet's artistry. Critics even agree that her influence is greater than that of Michael and Madonna in our current world in terms of visuals AND sounds. She was a trailblazer and ahead of her time in terms of what she spoke of lyrically (depression, racism, female sexuality), her visual concepts (grand stage shows and elaborate choreography and videos) and genre-bending sounds which is all the norm now.
And for the record Janet jackson is far more talented than the other guy. I've been fortunate to see Janet live from two rows away. Legend is right.
Most of the western world was baffled by the US's reaction to this. I remember thinking at the time that there was something seriously wrong with Americans. Sadly, I think that this bias against women is worldwide.
American hypocrisy. They claim to be progressive but..
@Crystal Kanashii what? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
When people say “black people are different” well that’s very vague observation since that result just depends on context. It just depends what you mean by that. Like if you think they’re inferior that’s definitely racist, but that isn’t the automatic intention of that opinion. And men & women are different... But they are also similar and the same in a lot of aspects, that is humanity wise. But what I’m trying to say is that when this is said, it’s to showcase that men and woman are not the same creatures, because they have differences. And it’s based upon these differences which this comment is made. Since you cannot treat them like they are the same when they aren’t the same. And quite literally designed to serve different roles. But of course most roles are possible from either gender so this isn’t a revolutionary opinion, merely just emphasising justice over equity.
there are biases in fabour of both sexes, it's just how it is.
@Crystal Kanashii Huh? 'I think women and men are different' is just an observation of reality, if there were no differences between women and men, nobody would bother to identify as one or the other, nor would anyone be trans.
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Of course, you could be talking about biological sex, not gender. But while race isn't 'real' (in the sense that our groupings of people based on phenotype are pretty arbitrary), biological sex _is_ .
@Crystal Kanashii stop bringing your white feminism into this racist
I never knew how bad it was for her. I had no idea this was why she vanished so quickly. How horrible. I feel so bad for her. Completely unfair. Why were people framing their questions to her like that!?!?!
Vanished? She had hit records after this and still does
White people just got mad
The rest of us didn't care
the media does this all the time, for everything, like if bernie sanders comes onto a show they'll ask him "why are you a communist", if a palestinian guy comes on they ask him "do you support killing of israeli civilian"
You ask why is it we give different type of attention to men and women, why - this is pure sexism! All of the language points to the fact that women are treated as sexualized objects which warrants a certain type of scrutiny: bodily composition, what she wears, how she smells, how she sounds, her use of makeup, etc - all of this is more important than what she says or does. We start to notice it, because women have won back their right for expression, their freedom from patriarchical definitions. And when half of humanity is liberated from oppression and feels intrinsically entitled to freely manifest themselves, it's a great victory for all of us.
When Justin Timberlake was the performer for the Super Bowl half time a few years ago, my aunt and one of my female cousins and I talked about how crazy it was that he was allowed to perform at the Super Bowl again, yet Janet Jackson essentially lost her career over the incident.
She didn't lose her career, what kind of nonsense is this?
exactly. And he disrespected ANOTHER artist, Prince. Exploiting his death and doing a fake collab, when he himself said he hates when ppl do collabs with dead artists.
@@yyg4632 didn't he do the same thing with MJ?
Timberlake is a culture vulture plain and simple
@@xBINARYGODx did you watch the video? She was blacklisted from every radio station and music video channel
Even as a kid I was like "But JT did the thing" whats with that. And that Letterman clip saying 'that's almost malfunctioning, wowee, btw you smell great" is the single most cringy thing ever, ew. Poor Janet looks SO uncomfortable.
I’ve always found letterman and Conan to be skeevy gross creeps to all the women that had the misfortune of having to be guests on their shows.
Wow Johnny, this video honestly makes me want to cry with how validated I feel. To hear this from a fellow creator who has not just noticed it but who has researched and called out the bad behaviour in a beautifully presented package is so powerful. It’s always something I heavily suspected but it’s wonderfully relieving to hear someone else say it. Thank you!
No one cares :)
a lot of people care
I came here just cause of your IG ❤️
Hi hannah! Nice work on your channel
Thanks for the link, Hannah!
The reactions of Justin and Janet are also particularlily interesting. Janet instantly freaks out as she realizes what happened, while Just just stands there and stares at her breast as if this was exactly what he expected to happen.
Freaked out so hard that she attempted to cover herself up
The lights didn’t go off in time. They both look back afterward.
They are both actors. Don't tell me you think Justin created Facebook!!
I thought it was just acting lol, wasn't this the intended result??
@@highdefinition450 that’s an assumption
I grew up in a world where Janet was not popular anymore and couldn't understand why all my faves would mention her as an inspiration. I always thought she was just the "sister of". Now I realise how big she was before this performance.
She was HUGE.
The sister of? Janet Jackson was and still is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She’s actually in a league of her own.
@@tennesseeminnissi2445 It’s not as obvious to other people as it may be to you. I’m 20 and my knowledge of her before watching the vid was that she was Michael Jackson’s sister who also happened to make music. That’s about it.
That's wild, Janet was every bit as famous as Michael in the 90s.
dont believe them, janet was and is an amazing artist, now you have the tools to follow her, use it! :D
She looked genuinely embarrassed when letterman commented on her chest showing. Honestly she really could be innocent and the politicians were Jenks as always
@@notmyrealname346 no
She stated "it was meant to happen but like it just meant to show my bra" but she wasn't wearing a bra??? So means she expected it happen cause how can you not know you're not wearing a bra???
@@DpsRagerTM watch the video again, notice the red lace. it looks like he was supposed to just pull off the black part leaving the red "bra" exposed. He pulled off the entire thing.
I literally gagged when Letterman followed that comment with "you smell wonderful by the way"
If that doesn't prove Johnny's entire point, idk what does. Absolutely disgusting
bro how she innocnet, she couldve said no the stunt or wearing that dress
Janet Jackson lost her career while Justin Timberlake's career wasn't affected ,hate to see it
Almost like rape
@@doorknob6601 no
@@doorknob6601 thats a sad and poor example
@@doorknob6601 what
Janets Jacksons career shouldnt have been affected by that as well as justin timberlake ....not more not less
I applaud you for making this video. Thank you for covering this in a way I hadn't seen before, and in a way that was greatly needed. Thank you for having respect for women. Your voice is greatly appreciated!
As a doctoral student in linguistics -- specifically syntax and semantics -- it's really, really cool to encounter a story that so robustly (and quite knowledgeably) recognizes the role of minute linguistic details in how we frame stories about the world (and subsequently our understanding of that world). Very nicely done!
We have a history of sexualizing women, shaming them for it, and letting the men walk away blameless. Janet felt the weight, exploitation, and criticism of the media as so many women do everyday.
especially since she is a black woman too : (
@@audreyelizabeths I wouldn't blame it on race/ religion/ skin color... She literally wanted to forget that thing and everybody asked her about it. How she felt in those moments... Shame on people, who started talking about it.
Maybe it's because the thing was planned to happen prior. I don't think either of them deserve to be shamed, but according to Janet she was supposed to have bra underneath and she accidentally didn't. I don't think Janet should've been shamed, but Justin did nothing wrong here.
@@cornheadahh I don't think she didn't have bra on. I think the idea was that he rip the black part of her outfit off and the red underneath was supposed to be revealed but instead both came off
@@lady0shady : I would blame it on race because you could see half of white woman's breast on TV every day. The US has a major race issue. White people and black people are treated differently with ethnic Asians painted as the model minority and people from India or Pakistan as the collateral H1B1 job taking scapegoats.
So 2021 is the year we all become aware of how justin timberlake literally used more popular and more successful women to step in the way and make his own career. Jackson and Spears lost everything so he could sing, act in movies and be a proud boy. What a great guy..
This is absolutely not what happened and a very strange narrative
That's actually what happened and dude 'apologised' for it, it wasn't even decent
@@yusufelsawi5334 hi yusuf have you seen the 2021 documentary about Britney Spears ? I would recommend it. It’s not about her work not being good. My comment is about how he used his relationship to get notoriety even when he knew it completely hurt Britney’s credibility/reputation.
Be a proud boy? Like a Proud Boy?
I think about it. Could be totally wrong. It wasnt his mistake either. Dude's literally not been cancelled. and is very much celebrated. I dont follow his music either way, not because of reasons as such but for the music itself. I am shocked how Taylor swift deems him as her crush and stuff. I love her music and see her as a good role model.
this is the most underrated video of your Johnny! beautifully edited to highlight important issue
Johnny uploading two videos in a rows is so big his dislikes are negative.
Real Racing fan I see
where are the other video. I saw notification about how escaped 2004. but then I check back its this video. is he changing the title?
Reading this made me loose brain cells
@@Ryan_____________________ Reading that made me lose brain cells
You're part of the problem... Did you even understand what Johnny 's point.
I remember that! But I'm from Poland, and many newspapers blamed... Justin, for the whole situation. No kidding. It seems that foreign country behaved better than Janet's own.
Whoa..
Catholic country and yet..?!!
Now that's a progress!
See! Atheists are bunch of immatures in highly-assorted skin.
So.. May you please arrange for some pre-existing collection of outputs by Polish news-media?
@@maazkalim lmao what
Doesn't take much to behave better than the usa . Let's be real
A Philosophical point I was making: Clearly, you're not a target-audience? "@@svscrib8922"
@@maazkalim why do you tag people like that isn't it simpler to just leave their @ at the beginning lol
The irony is that we “analyze” women over everything EXCEPT when it comes to actual data for anything that matters. Every industry and area of life has massive gender data gaps that disproportionately effects women negatively. The book “Invisible Women” by Caroline Criado Perez is an exceptional look at this.
... thanks for mentioning the book..
Really? We pay much more attention to issues concerning women. How pervasive the myths about the wage gap are is the perfect example.
@@Nazxvn Sure! There are so many :) What Works - Iris Bonnet, Difficult Women - Helen Lewis, Women & Power - Julia Gillard, Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
Hi @@СвободадляроссииI'll give you the benefit of the doubt. The gender pay gap is a widely accepted fact on all sides of politics across the globe. The global gender pay gap currently stands at 37.8% (it varies hugely from country to country, being 18.1% in the UK; 23% in Australia; and 59.6% in Angola). This is exacerbated when you factor in things like underpaid labor, child care, and gendered poverty and health standards. It is not a myth, but rather something to address and solve. However, when people men come across someone trying to level the playing field, it’s often all read it as bias in the opposite direction.
@@ChadBarnier Of course the wage gap itself does exist. However all the mainstream conclusions drawn from its existence are bone-headed and lazy at best or malicious at worst, because it is always made out as an issue of discrimination and sexism while there are thousands of other factors of greater importance involved. This wouldn't happen if womens issues did not receive overproportional attention.
I'm a huge fan of yours. And this video, and your reaction to it at the end, stands out as being the best to me. The way you spoke about Iz's videos, struck me. It's spot on. And your passion and honesty hit me harder in this video than any of your others for some reason. Brilliant work.
Thank you for making this. ❤️
Indeed!
❤️
@@johnnyharris good day johny
@@johnnyharris We talk about female being scrutinized, but their are people like you who talk about these happenings.
Just imagine about living in a country where everyone is scrutinizing you, you do anything you would be laughed at - that's homophobia in India..... And it was not like this before British arrived with their section 377.
Ancient India was LGBTQ friendly.
I beg you to make a video about homophobia in India.
It's also normal in workplace. Men that ambitious or vocal are normal. But when it's me, a woman, my boss will say you're having an attitude problem. thanks God, I'm not working there anymore.
Oh johnny what would my lunch break be without this
facts
"She probably got what she was looking for" is so misogynistic
On one hand the blind outrage was prolly both racist and misogynistic. On the other hand from the sources I could find it was mostly orchestrated by her and her stylist.
Sounds like the people accidentally blamed the right person for all the wrong reasons..
@@BestKeptSecretsRaps no u
not misogynistic just rude
@@decoy1312 thank you, closer to what I was
@@BestKeptSecretsRaps welcome partner
This somehow makes me feel a level of rage I've never felt before.
Me too, she was old and not hot.
Best video so far!
I totally see the same thing with me and my girlfriend. Both of us create content - and she gets the majority of hate comments on the Internet. It’s really sad to see. Love how you framed this video.
Hi nas!
Huge respect to you and your entire team.
hey Nas
Maybe it's just because they're trash
Weird since you deserve all of it for normalising relations with israel :)
Hey
As a woman myself we literally can’t do ANYTHING without getting made fun of and analyzed for it. Our hair, bodies personality, face etc. You don’t even have to be famous either people will make fun of you and shove you in a box weather your famous or not. You’ll be shamed for anything you do. Thank you so much for making this.
haha most of that comes from other women, mostly writers of those magazine.
@@thegreatest1176 I'm a man and I hate having to see titties. Imagine any dude actually said that..
I dont agree with this. I do not believe thigs to be this black and white.
@@CarlCabralEntertainment big brain "the truth is in the middle" boi here
I thought it was just me
Johnny's hair deserves its own channel.
LOLOLOL. Iz tells me the same things everyday.
oh my god but for real
yea man fr
I came here for this...
I was just thinking "Johnny's point is proven if 80% of the comments isn't about that piece of hair sticking up". Thank you for making what you make!
thank you for this "simple and clever explanation of this important concept in politics and media!" it helped me see things better not just in this event, but in many others !!
The clips of David Letterman "interviewing" Janet Jackson make me want to crawl into a hole. I keep seeing more clips of his show resurface from this era with this same level of harassment toward female guests. I get why his show was never allowed on in our house.
U agree with you 👍, To be fair I notice a similar pattern with how Ellen treats her male guests .
Yes! It was hideous the way he... perrrvvvved Janet Jackson. That's the only 'word' that describes how I felt watching that clip
@Asphincter says what? Not convinced though. It wasn't dumb comments, those were inappropriate & your example tells how different he treated his male guest & female guest.
Omg yes! He was disgusting! I always thought that, it’s weird how accepting people used to be of sexist shit
get over it
Johnny: "I can't show you this because, well, it's UA-cam"
Also Johnny: "UA-cam was founded so people could see this"
+
Big "I used the stones to destroy the stones" energy
Yes, so you could see the event at large, not the specifics due to content-sensitivity.
@@BBQBeerKars ngl, the "joke" here is kinda going over my head too, but I'm still laughing along, lol
corporations and money arrived and YT stopped being what it was
I’m still trying to figure out how a breast can be infamous.
Nudity has always been like that
Well, I've always felt that if you don't have *any* enemies in life then you're doing something wrong.
Now I'm thinking of if there's any women throughout history that had used their breasts to kill people or rob banks or used them for the greater good.
I like to imagine it with a Salvador Dali-styled moustache
Oh, the breast in question certainly became infamous because of this event, no doubt about it. But, more to the point, it wasn't infamous in the slightest before Timberlake exposed it!
What you said at the end is so spot on. Thank you for seeing and speaking about the language people use against women ♥️♥️♥️♥️
I saw this on TV with my entire family and right after the incident happened my dad said "oh great they're be all over this poor girl"
Your dad is one of the few logical people left
you're dad is awesome
Smart dad!
I read that in a wonderful grandad accent for some reason
@@nearthgg same 😂
"you smell wonderful?"
ugh...if it wasn't David Letterman, people would say "what a creep"
Whadya mean? I always thought he was a creep. :)
I did say "what a creep" when that aired and I was still in high school.
That was creepiest part of the video for me. Old men sniffing younger women is always weird.
Pure disgust
He's a creep. Also he's sexist
"I´m a big boy now."
- Journalist
a journalist who clearly knows his audience very well.
Lololol. I’m so proud of what a big boy I am
@@johnnyharris @Johnny Harris We talk about female being scrutinized, but their are people like you who talk about these happenings.
Just imagine about living in a country where everyone is scrutinizing you, you do anything you would be laughed at - that's homophobia in India..... And it was not like this before British arrived with their section 377.
Ancient India was LGBTQ friendly.
I beg you to make a video about homophobia in India.
me me big boy
This situation still makes my blood boil 17 yrs later 😤🤬 Janet deserved better!
It felt wrong then and it's even more enraging now. Especially in light of Justin finally facing some sort of scrutiny. Thank you for making this.
Yeah fxck Justin! I need to watch the Britney Spears Doc, but I've heard some shxt
The way he looks and speaks to the camera when talking about comments surrounding his wife made me feel guilty and I don't even know who his wife is.
Check out Iz Harris. She uploads equally amazing content!
Iz Harris is incredible, and she makes videos just as beautiful as Johnny. They are my favourite power couple!
Same 👌
He's quite angry with it and he has all the right
They both do international-isque videos, but Johnny is more travel with a political POV, shifting to more politics content, where Iz is more straight travel, shifting from international to local, both because COVID.
Iz is also more about more-private/open-up content. Johnny is more world events, sometimes throwing a second POV or just more in depth.
Dude's doxed US military bases, but it's Nipplegate that has him looking like he's been up for 36 hours.
Joke of the year by far!
🤣🤣🤣
Wait, you just talked about a male presenter's appearance? How predictable! /s
Comment and upvotes to this comment just proves his point.
That’s because he had more recent research material made in the same format he wanted to make this video in(other UA-cam videos of the same exact topic) so it probs saved him a lot of time compared to this one where he had to dig up a bit more.
It's not a coincidence that a Black women got blamed while a white men benefited off the incident. Racism and sexism is whats causing this type of language. And this language furthers these social structures.
as a woman, thank you for talking how hard it is for us to do anything without people talking how our clouths are inappropriate, how we're not profissional enough, or how we dont care about our appearance if we dont have make up on or our hair is undone but we're trying to share a mensage, not a look.
I'm always confused when people say this.
Men literally have no choice what to wear to their job. Trousers and a shirt. Always.
Women can wear pants, skirts, dresses, tights, loose... cleavage is fine, legs showing is fine. Have you ever seen a man wearing shorts and a tank top in a professional situation? I haven't.
Yes women are judged too much by their appearance, but if anybody is discriminated against for clothes in professional or schooling situations it's men.
I have literally been sent home for wearing shorts while female colleagues wore skirts the same length.
@@ef4947 these are different things society see women as dolls, manequins, not humans and men are labeled as weirdos when they use whatever they want, but still seen as human. but feminism fight against it too! its sexism fault, we have rules how we should live and behave because of our sexes and its so powerful it also affects men. feminism fights for things that will benefit men too and make the whole society a better place to live
@@leticia-ut3oc Absolutely, i agree entirely with you. I don't disgree on the existence and the extent of sexism.
There's just one thing I always found remarkable. Let me start by saying I believe anybody should be able to walk around the streets naked without being harrassed. Having said that:
Women receive exponentialy more slack for the clothes they wear, but the clothes they wear are on average also exponentialy more revealing. In my experience - only man in my family, father died young so it was me, my mom, my sisters and my aunts and their daughters - the most emotionaly harmful comments on appearance throughout the lives of my sisters have all been from women. Men have behaved like pigs, assholes and idiots - but as far as judging by appearance it's mostly women perpetuating this culture.
I was a punk when I was a teen so always looked rather shabby. I can also say my own personal experience is that women were much harsher about judging my appearance than men were.
In the same way I never understood why men that are quick to say they don't put up with sexist behaviour also don't seem to call out their friends who do show this kind of behaviour.
Just like there are so many asshole men, there are just as many asshole women. Unfortunately, being an asshole is something that is hard to unlearn :(
I'm glad society is starting to normalize calling assholes out, but sometimes I fear that the labeling of an entire gender group as the culprit and another the victim is just creating distance between all the non-assholes that should all be uniting and joining forces against the assholes instead. Does this make sense?
@@Solid_Snake99 stop thinking we women want to know what u think about us, ur opinion is bs :)
@@Solid_Snake99 okay stop growing beards then. y’all men legit look like eggs without them LMFAO
I love how he gets defensive over Iz for a minute there, like..
"Don't you dare think about leaving a mean comment on her videos like she doesn't read them.. well she might not. But I will."
Honestly if my future husband ain't gonna be like that I ain't marrying him.
@@amitsharda8198 For your xenophobia ALLAH-U TEALA will have a SPECIAL place for you in HELL ;) See you there!
@@amitsharda8198 Are you stupid? UA-cam isn’t haram.
@@amitsharda8198 why are you here hun
@@amitsharda8198 your stupidity and hypocrisy is hilarious
@@amitsharda8198 I guess you never put yourself in others shoe. There is never a complete right and complete wrong in morality. Even the USA collected data of the limits of human from Nazis and released them
can we take a minute to appreciate that he titled the video "How Justin Timberlake Escaped #NippleGate" and not something like "How #NippleGate ruined Janet Jackson's Career"
.... welll yeah... thats the point of the story.... Imagine making a video about a subject but in the title you completely go against your point.
@@highlysmiley2303 yep yep exactly
@@elliot1165 fair enuff :)
@vyan thanks to you, I appreciate this video even more now.
He laid a question upon us. To those adamant and appalled by how we objectify women in media. Certainly in the comment section like clockwork there will be comments about the visuals of a woman or her characteristics that appeal or not appeal to the audience while her topic and what she speaks on is a minor infraction to what is perceived.
I am one of those who he calls upon. Appalled by the audacity of people to be that shallow upon women. Focusing on their voice or visuals so that the *CONTENT* of her voice is drowned out by misplaced criticism. Both by men and women in the audience.
I do not want to sit on my moral high horse and say i never once objectified women. No. I did as often as the context implies it. When the objective of the content is objectification like a beauty pageant, or a beauty contest, or modelling, etc.
But in reporting, news, journalism, performance art, written and audible content, women are so much more of what they have or what they are or who they are. They are, at that point what they extrapolate as their content.
Do not misuse criticism to detract attention to their voice(the audible facet) from their voice(the content).
They need both but requires focus on the latter.
We need to speak up about their topics as much as we do with men.
And this is not only a lip service for men but is as much as for women as women themselves are much more harsher critics of other women.
I love the way you analyzed this video, internet needs more things like these.
When men are talking, we listen.
When women are talking, we see.
True
Yup. This is so depressing.
Answer is horniness
Human nature. As long as we have hormones, women will continue to be objectified more
This is an extremely relative statement.
i asked my mom if she remembered this. she remembered how janet was ridiculed and how her career was over. i asked her if she remembered anything or anyone else and she said no, it’s unfortunate what happened to her but it happens. i had to tell her about justin 😭😭
Ugh I had to tell my grandma about James Corden being an A hole. Popping balloons isn’t fun lol
She was already a long ago "has been" at that time in the pop world.
@@GrzegorzDurda umm you don’t know what you’re talking about. She had an album go platinum that same year, another one go platinum two years later, and another one go gold after that. And this was all despite being blacklisted by major tv and radio stations
@@RLewis123 Thats very low sales considering the time frame and her name power. It's all pop culture and irrelevant.
Janet's career is not and never be over she had hits after this... this is a white person's narrative. Janet is a legend and we didn't care about nipples. We still.love her
I remember this, they railroaded Janet. She was done dirty.
Yea :(
I looked her up to see if I could support her somehow, I always knew what happened was shitty, but never saw it.
they didn’t just railroad they tied her to the train tracks
I don't think people know how bad this ruined Janet's career. She released an album in 2001 with a single that became one her most successful songs and broke multiple airplay records and topping the charts for seven weeks. The album had the second highest opening week sales for a female artist at the time and all the success she had for almost TWENTY YEARS vanished after the Superbowl. She is such a major influence to so many artists that appeared after her and she doesn't get the credit she absolutely deserves because these old men in power blocked her music for several years from the media
He said Janet confirmed it was a planned skit. It was not Justin's fault Janet decided to not wear a bra. They rehearsed this.
I remember that event vividly. I was completely focused on JT because I was bewildered by his actions and the fact that nobody was questioning him.
I didn’t even know Justin Timberlake was involved in this. I never watched it actually go down... I thought it was just a nipslip... what the fuck Justin...
I used to like him, i immediately changed my opinion when he said: “i like to give y'all something to talk about”! Like tf
Same. I just watched THE ACTUAL SHOW from this video. Wtf justin, seriously this should've been a crime!
@@FBWUniverseMode he was going with the crowd, sadly that is how most of the people on this earth are.
@@OddZodd i would like to believe that things have changed now, his career would have been ruined if this happened in 2020 or later
it's her problem not Justin's
I loved that at the beginning the I thought the topic looked so trivial, but your ending conclusions were great. It's horrible how society judges women differently, it doesn't care what they say, it's how they do it. Thanks a lot for your video
I hope this makes you reconsider how you view other issues that women often talk about that get often dismissed as trivial.
Both the race and the sex of the two involved were factors. If it was a black man and a white women, like say Usher and Madonna, it would've been a lot more difficult for Usher to make it out unscathed and Madonna would've been more likely treated as a victim even with her past stunts.
Would love to see Britney Spears and Janet Jackson doing collab for the upcoming Superbowl halftime show.
lol same
Very interesting. Your perspective is so intriguing. Your attention to detail is is impeccable.
Nobody is talking about his pjs or unkempt hair. That's his exact point! He did those things on purpose.
That's true. I noticed, but I didn't think that it was important enough to comment on.
Omg wow! :o
I also detected this and assumed it was a test. Objectively I thought a lot about his hair during the video lol.
His beard is also scraggly.
I actually like the hair and the pjs
I remember when this happened and 14 year old me thought Justin Timberlake was a jerk and it just grew over time because I never heard him apologize. And than the last straw was his super bowl with Prince.
What happened with Prince?
@@karaiwonder yeh wtf..
Buddy, dont keep us hanging.... what happened with Prince?
So, what happened??
Well a quick google search shows that he performed something and had a prince hologram during some NFL show Idk NFL blocked video to youtube or something. But prince thought the shit was demonic so ppl freaked out. Idk how it would have been a last straw because hes obviously not cancelled. I hate this existence man. Mfr
I'm happy to see I'm not the only one that has noticed how the Internet reacts to women doing anything. I've been seeing it for years now, but I never see anyone talk about it.
This comment cracks me up. You've never seen anyone talk about it? You mean you've never seen any white man talk about it, cause women have been saying it for years. It's kinda sad, but it's prove that point that men only listen to other men and ignores women's voices, but it's a good thing that men start mobilizing their privilege to talk about this stuff. It would be nice to credit all the people who have adressed this before him though.
I know, there is a woman UA-camr that once said "yes I saw your comment about how beautiful I am, and I don't want your comments about me"
i mean... women talk about it... literally all the time lmfao
@@hamilcross I can't force people, let alone a specific gender, to exist in my social circles. Let alone ones that are content creators. So I don't know what you want me to do here.
@@nikomo I don't want to go full psychotherapist here, but you're right in that you should not force other people to do anything. Respecting other people's boundaries is important. UA-cam is great in that there are countless of women creating content out there, and as a viewer you get to hear about their experiences, and maybe understand them a little bit better, even though you might not have women in your own social circles. The same goes for all the people whose life experiences might be different from yours, whether they have a sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religion different than your own. There is a lot of content out there that could all help us understand each other better
Hey, I've been binge watching you videos for a couple of days. I don't know how voluntary it is, but I think it's brilliant for a video that denounces (in a way) that women are criticized for their appearance much more than men that it is in this video that you seem "the most neglected" (messy hair, loose sweater, slightly bent posture,...) and for what I saw, you had no comments about it :) I thought that was fun. Anyway, good job ! I love watching your videos
- As a journalist, * vigorously taking notes *
- As a woman who is also on camera recently and seeing what's happening to women in my country, around me and to my friends.. blood hell. This brought me to tears.
This video is much needed... particularly during these times.
Thank you, thank you for this video
I imagine the sexualization of women here in the US - increasingly by women themselves- is not helping your situation there.
You are a journalist? Then be not a professional female journalist, but a professional journalist. We are here to learn about what happened, not start an intimate relationship with you. How you look should have nothing to do with the story.
But that's not what you need to learn. That's what everyone who watches you should have known already.
I'm not sure what else to say. This is a cultural issue, but I guess the counter argument is always you have to start somewhere.
It was great to see guys among the protesters following those couple of events in India a couple years back.
Good luck with your work. Stay strong.
Librandu
Thanks for calling this out, Johnny. You're example as a father and husband is encouraging. Keep it up
All these years later, and I am still baffled why a single boob is a big deal.
@Vladimir Putin it was only a single boob.... Hardly Naked.
The most confusing thing about this worlds society is that people seem to care when it's a female boob
What if the genders were swapped and Justin showed his nipple? Nobody would care, they would have that it was part of the show
What's worse? A guy with no shirt on walking down the street or a woman with no shirt on walking down he street?
Are you from a different country? The US is much more conservative in certain ways when compared with other parts of the world. In other countries, nude beaches are common. This doesn't happen in America. It is sort of similar to how you cannot show your shoulders, as a women, in certain churches.
Different cultures/organizations have developed different standards of what is considered acceptable.
Kids
Not even a boob. A nipple. One that actually had a covering of some sort, but wasn't opaque enough for US TV.
The whole episode I was like “why is his hair sticking up when he always has it so neat in his other videos?” But then I get to the end and he’s talking about how there are comments about women’s appearance instead of the substance and I start wondering if that was the point. But a quick skim of the comments no one is talking about it. So maybe it was on purpose and maybe not but I guess it proves his point.
The whole rest of the world was weirded out that the USA went crazy over this, but violence on tv is ok.
yeah, till this day i felt like it just an overreacting, wardrobe malfunction goes wrong and should be leave at it, but i didn't know why you add "violence on tv is ok" what's the point bringing that up ? did you mean it's not ok to watch patrick got smashed to a mountain and ended up in pieces ?
@@Apudurangdinya I think what he wanted to say, is that American censorship is very weird. American censors are extremely sensitive to nudity and swearing, more extreme than other countries in the world, but the levels for violence are more relaxed than other countries. The tolerance is very dispropotionate between different categories.
@@SpecieOp ...and at the same time you hear 5 year old American kids in 'Call of Duty' voice chat.
And guns. Lots and lots of guns. You gotta keep that second amendment bruz.
And guns for everyone
Love that you’re talking about this. I felt this way in church with purity culture - the responsibility usually falls on females to not ״make men stumble”. Men are often tisked while women are ruined. It happens in the world like you said with Monica L, and others. Fault falls on women.
Well I'm a Muslim and it's exactly as you describe it in church, if a man lust for a woman it's the woman fault, man has no responsibility and I think its more my society believes than religious beliefs cause I heard same story from Japanese friends
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nas taran thank you for making that point. I have seen it in many cultures too - I am glad you brought that up. It for sure is a human issue.
The war on women has been heartbreaking to witness over the centuries. My concern is that if this is what we are discussing with what happens in public, what happens in private? The undetected abuse that goes on in homes is heartbreaking and needs to change. It starts with this mindset we’ve seen right here.
This plus what he did to Britney... Justin is always getting away with the awful things he does while the women he uses are incredibly affected by the situation, so unfair. And poor Janet, the world should apologise to her 😩
Exactly! I am old enough to remember when this happened and I saw how Justin stood back and let Janet take all of the blame. I lost all respect for him after this.
As a 40 something woman I find it very strange people both blame a young 20 year old man for Janet's admitted planned stunt, but also think he was in some position to make some authoritative comment and "save" Janet from all this. Janet was a whole entire grown-ass woman (Miss Janet if you're nasty) and the problem was the outrage coming from the public
As a 40 something year old woman with a 20 something year old son, he was definitely capable of saying “I pulled off too much fabric.” Instead, he went on about his life as if he wasn’t even there instead of being a decent human being and acknowledging his part in the incident.
@@yoohootube Are you sure you're 40 cause you don't sound like one. Also Justin was a grown ass man too. He wasn't some 12 yr old kid that had no choice, he was 20 and 20 is not a kid, he was perfectly capable of making his own decisions. If it was planned then it clearly involved them both. He was happy to pull off the act but wasn't ready to share the consequences. That says a lot about his character. If he was a decent person, he would've apologized or atleast gave an explanation instead of saying something dumb like "hey man, i gave you something to talk about". He washed his hands off of this incident like he had nothing to do with it, like he wasn't the one who ripped off Janet's clothes. While poor Janet was trashed and her career was ruined. This whole incident could've gone so differently if he had spoken up for Janet or atleast offered some explanation.
@@yukihoon994 I'm confused. wasn't it an accident? he didn't mean to pull off all the fabric, and Janet didn't even have her boob show because she had something covering it. the whole thing seemed kinda planned to be honest. it happened years ago why do we even care?
Thank you for making this video. As a woman, if I were to have explained this in the exact same words my experience would be denied, I would be mansplained to, threatened with violence, or (best case scenario) ignored. Maybe with a man saying this other men might listen. No one's going to question your credibility.
it shouldn t be this way, but sadly it is!
No one will question yours either. Speak your mind unapologetically girl! We’re all with you hmu here if you need backup.
Me and my wife were talking about this the other day. Poor Janet, she's so talented.
It's called sexism, mysoginy, and racism 🤦
Janet just said it was supposed to happen?????
Exactly. All wrapped up into one with a tiny bow.
Misogynoir. The specific kind of anti woman sentiment leveled toward black women.
@@psychegoddessoflight9358 but Janet said it was supposed to happen, she just didn't want her titi showing, she wanted it to her her bra!, don't you understand SHE WANTED IT TO HAPPEN
@@nigelmushonga3772 I wasn’t actually making a statement on Janet, only providing the name for what had been described by the OP in case they hadn’t encountered the term before.
Janet said that they had planned for a FAUX exposure to happen. Her bra was meant to be exposed, not the whole breast. Now, we can debate the legitimacy of that, as she was wearing an intricate nipple cover of an 8-pointed star, a symbol often used in occult practices to summon the ancient goddess deity Semiramis (same as the logo for the CIA).
And ALL of the Super Bowl halftime shows are thinly disguised occult rituals. Janet & Justin’s faces look genuinely shocked when her breast falls out...but they’re entertainers, so who knows? Maybe Janet was in on it, and agreed in advance to be thrown under the bus. Maybe the spirit entities they summoned had a hand in switching things up. That’s why it’s not wise to play with the occult.
We will likely never know for certain. But even if Janet had agreed to take all the hits, it’s still arguably due to the subtle (and not so subtle) negativity toward black women that allowed everyone to go blindly along with the “Bad Janet, innocent Justin” narrative. I’m not a fan of the constant victimization happening today, but that doesn’t mean some of the complaints aren’t valid.
The whole video breaks down so beautifully evidence of how sexism is enacted through words throughout our history/media - backed with facts. (And you briefly showed many other examples too - Britney Spears, Monika Lewinsky etc. to highlight the pattern) there are still people in the comments and its replies arguing about letterman and generalizing against "men" (or society) as the same thing. It just shows people simply aren't willing to understand HISTORICAL realities, contexts and structures of sexism and racism and its impacts.
Thanks for doing your bit. You do such an honest job of bringing people to the point and leaving it as a question so people get to think about it themselves. You inspire me to continue journalism. What independent journalists and company's like VOX do is amazing!
Also we do notice how you were in pj's, messy hair, beard on purpose yet no one will talk about it /compared to you wives videos
Sigh!!!!! "Sexism". Really. After all of this thats that's the ism you think was the cause of what happened to that queen. Bet you think it was " toxic masculinity that got George Floyd killed to. SMH.
@@marquisinternational941 it's sexism and racism - in janets case. But the media did the same with Britney, Lewinsky and more. It's not limited to one "ism".
@@marquisinternational941 LOOL THANK YOU chatting bout sexism
Glad to see you are using your research skills for important issues
She was assaulted, really - and then was treated as the "temptress." There's a combination of misogyny and racism here. It's not about shining a spotlight, they treat her as a temptress. And she's black. In today's "Me too" movement she'd have sued for assault. Not been victimized as a temptress. Thanks for the analysis and all the context. I'd just moved to the US then, and this is the first time I followed the story in detail.
It would only be assault, if someone rigged the stunt in some way. Who would she sue for assault? Maybe Justin if he did something other than he was supposed to, but I think if her costume was made and put on correctly, there is very little, he could have done wrong.
@@ernieee42 Fair comment! But if they want to exaggerate, my point was, exaggerate what HE did vs. what SHE did (which was nothing.)
Thank you for saying this because I know ppl can say ‘I don’t know why she was treated like this...’ yeah we do know, we know exactly why she was treated like this. But I’m glad Johnny framed it like this because it forces ppl to see the facts and not be able to manipulate them.
Definitely not assault. Even she noted it was planned as a stunt, but it clearly didn't work as intended. That means that whole grabbing and yanking of the cup was planned out, so common sense clearly proves that claim to be false. And I do not see the connection between what you said here and racism, unless it's just you seeing it as that because she happens to be black and have received the treatment and perception she did for what happened. But I guarantee especially back then, if she was white, the same shit would've happened from this anyway, as Johnny clearly shows us in the video.
@@takunyamu9688 You're welcome. "Assault" may have been too strong a term - but I was trying to shed light on the fact that if there was any wrong at all, it came from Timberlake. If you see a rape victim and her clothes are ripped off, you don't call her a "sl*t."
"that's almost malfunctioning, isn't it?" -David Letterman
Janet, just forced to laugh awkwardly, because she knows how this person perceives her and how this interview goes will have a direct impact on her career, which is now under incredible scrutiny because of this "scandal" which is being 100% blamed on her.
Ugh 🤢🤮 as you peel back all the layers, it just gets worse and worse...
And then he follows it up with how she smells nice. So gross.
DL’s words and how creepy he acts just turns my stomach! Disgusting…..🤮🤮🤮
@@mjc0961 it was so uncomfortable to watch.
Seriously
Right and then the audience just cheers and applauds. I felt absolutely sick. Imagine having to sit there and smile through all that when you've just gotten into one of the worst "scandals" over your left tit. I can't.
also, as a young teen, the fact that i know who timberlake is and not janet jackson shows how much this ruined her career
Do you know who Michael Jackson is?
I only know the miss Jackson song
@@PropheticShadeZ Do you know who made that song?
@@SanFranFan30 of course he does
I, too am a young teen. How do you not know both? 😂
I was close to Justin's age when this happened and it was crazy. The media couldn't stop talking about it. I always felt it was a stunt! It was blew way out of portion. I loved TRL!!
Miss Janet has been my favorite singer since I was a little girl and hated how she was treated. I didn’t realize the extent back then because she still had play on black radio and tv but this is so crazy.
Thank you for shedding light on details many have forgotten or weren’t aware.
When that chat show host said “by the way, you smell wonderful” I fucking recoiled in horror and exclaimed “that’s fucking terrifying”. Honestly that was gross as fuck. It’s entirely upsetting how there’s two standards
Man same that was sickening. What is wrong with the host 😠
Slimy men: never in history, not having the fucking audacity
You mean David Letterman?
You can see Janet Jackson is clearly uncomfortable with being the butt of the joke. I was cringing when he said, you smell nice
@@ElectroIsMyReligion not everyone is familiar with American late night talk show hosts. I think him using the term "chat show" instead of "late night" indicates he's British.
14:15 I used to pick apart women too for the longest until I realised I never did that to men
Even stuff like *"that news lady's hair is so gorgeous"* and never saying anything about the actual news she was delivering
I had been raised to take men more seriously than women, but once you realise *you're part of the problem* it's easier to resist it
I hope you understand that you shouldn't get props for that. It's the minimum. It's like saying "I don't kick puppies" and expecting applause.
@@Carol-sn2pz noice
@@Carol-sn2pz i hope you understand that criticizing people for sharing their experiences of growth doesnt make you in any way morally superior
@@Carol-sn2pz i hope you understand that criticizing people for sharing their experiences of growth doesnt make you in any way morally superior
Carol D. He’s sharing his growth story WTF is wrong with you
Thank you so much for breaking all this down for the ones who accused Janet!
Glad someone finally brought this up. Never understood why he was just kinda forgiven for this, like he has nothing to do with it. So weird.
Bruh it was a wardrobe malfunction and Janet states in her book she ASKED JUSTIN TO STAY QUIET AND NOT SPEAK ON THE SITUATION
Every single song was extremely graphic but somehow everyone got mad at her for something she didn't even do...
As a woman all I have to say is: "welcome to the female experience".
Correct 😎
It's rough that this wasn't a learning moment for the prudes of America and became a chance to ruin a woman somehow
Exactly
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Yep!
@Johnny Harris, WOW!! I've never seen your channel or heard of you prior to watching this video , you're a great Journalist👍. You're spot on, Janet Jackson was humiliated then punished for something caused by Justin who never once received any penalty and the worst part about it he's so cocky that he felt no need to apologize he got all the kudo points primarily by majority males. I've never liked Justin Timberlake non whatsoever but Janet Jackson still continues to be one of my favorite artist, I still play every single album she's ever made and always will.