Janet Jackson's boobie

[JundtHeald]

Ok...David did you or anyone see this and what are your thoughts?
Jamie

[Krugirl76]

I saw it and I think people are making a bigger deal of it than it should be, but at the same time, it was so obviously planned...can't anyone rely on good music anymore?! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[DAVID HESS]

Didn't see it, but it sounds like a scam to me! She's been out of the public eye for the last 3 years...what does tht tell you? You got it right, Shannon...more betta music...Yeah!
David

[Tard]

Old news now, forgotten about, but missed this thread earlier.

I happened to be recording the whole Superbowl to see what the commercials would be like ($2.3 million for a 30-second spot; they better be good!). Commercials were rather disappointing this year: Budweiser commercial 1) Mules dream of being a Bud Kleidsdale (the best commercial of the night, reminicent of old-school 70's Bud commercials), 2) Horse farts in girlfriends face/who's cooking BBQ?. Elderly couple beating each other up to get bag of potato-chips. Car commercials SFX-heavy (using the 'flame' computer effect from LOTR).

The commercials were less-witty/more-crass than last year, and with Mtv doing the halftime show, was expecting pretty-much the same in that regard too. Yep; crotch-grabbing rappers..., the Janet-breast stunt immediately felt like something planned to get Michael out of the Entertainment-headlines for a day or two.

[Meagan]

its a breast....big deal,we all seen them,go to europe and they are in all the fashion magazines,its a beautiful thing. Why are they making such a big issue out of this in the US?

[Edwardt]

I would agree with that. A famous writer, whose name escapes me, said we're the most sexually-repressed and sexually-obsessed country in the world. People focus on the breast, and forget about the simulated-humping and vulgarity that seemed to make up the rest of the halftime show, not to mention the actual football game itself. I believe Lenny Bruce made the point in the early 60's that you could show a breast in a movie being stabbed or similarly violated but you couldn't show the same breast being kissed or caressed. It's sad.

[Tard]

HAWHAWHAW! I've got that Lenny Bruce book! (packed away somewhere, so can't quote from it presently) Believe it was a long rant about how a pillow is easier to show on TV as a method to murder than make love. Also had a lot to do with which video format should a parent really shelter their children from; the porns (where a pillow is only used to maybe prop-up a womans butt), or Network TV (lots of criminal-shows, so more than likely a suffocation murder-weapopn)...

[Edwardt]

I remember Bruce did a bit on one of his records (I'm not sure which now; it's been awhile). He was talking about the film "Psycho", which apparently had just been released. He talked about how parents were willing to let their kids see this film (admittedly, a masterpiece), which featured murder, misogyny, transvestism, etc., but wouldn't let their kids see a film of 2 people making love. Bruce had the father saying (and I'm paraphrasing here), "We can't let our kids see 2 people making love, because if they see that, they may do that someday." Obviously, no one advocates letting kids see lewd movies, but I think the points Bruce was making then regarding our national obsession with violence are as cogent today as they were when he made them.