WARDROBE MALFUNCTION (mini episode)

American Hysteria

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Eighty-four million Americans witnessed the greatest pop culture spectacle of 2004, when Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson headlined the Super Bowl Halftime Show. Their live performance ended with what became known as a “wardrobe malfunction” when Justin ripped away a portion of Janet’s leather top, revealing her right breast complete with nipple piercing. This salacious scandal, sometimes called Nipplegate roused a moralistic America, even helping President George W. Bush to win his second term. American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Produced and edited by Clear Commo Studios Co-written by Riley Smith Become a Patron for extra episodes, interviews, and videos monthly! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is American hysteria's Aftershock, where I share with you a story that didn't make it into the main episode.
0:13.2	I'm your host, Chelsea Weber Smith, and today we're talking about Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.
0:19.9	So go, baby, never. about Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction.
0:41.6	More than 84 million Americans saw it. the greatest spectacle of 2004, one that would appear in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most popular search item for all of the
0:46.4	internet that year. As Justin Timberlake beatboxed and freak danced in some retrospectively
0:52.4	unflattering baggy, khaki pants against a leather-clad Janet Jackson.
0:57.7	Their Super Bowl halftime show culminated with Justin singing the line from his massive hit,
1:03.1	Rock Your Body. I bet I'll have you naked by the end of this song. Then came the infamous moment
1:08.7	as Justin reached across Janet's body, grasping beside her right
1:13.2	breast and pulling the black covering away, revealing a large, blazing sun, nipple piercing.
1:19.9	The video cut away quickly as fireworks sprayed into the sky and Janet looked down, mortified
1:25.7	it seemed, at what would go on to be a pivotal moment
1:28.8	in popular culture and would even affect the upcoming election of George W. Bush's second term.
1:35.7	Tonight, Janet Jackson is apologizing for her flash dance. The singer calls the bodice-ripping move
1:41.0	by fellow entertainer Justin Timberlake during the Super Bowl halftime show,
1:44.6	a last-minute stunt that went too far.
1:47.3	Timberlake called it a wardrobe malfunction.
1:50.8	The incident, unsurprisingly, became known as Nipplegate, and I remember the moment vividly.
1:57.3	It was one of those wonderful shocks of live television, reminding me of another incredible moment in pop culture that happened the year before.
2:05.9	That's right, when Madonna kissed Britney Spears at the VMAs and I sat wide-eyed on a lounge chair at my boyfriend's house thinking, oh, sweet Lord Jesus, I am so deeply gay.
2:17.2	Anyway, Janet Jackson's nipple was exposed for nine 16ths of a second.
2:22.7	But to moralistic Americans, it seemed as if a pornographic assault had taken place
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