Singer Janet Jackson, 55, does not want to be part of the New York Times Superbowl documentary. The information was confirmed by former artist Wayne Scot Lukas, who created the costume she wore in 2004 at the Superbowl, to Page Six.
Jackson refused to participate in the New York Times/FX project and asked Lukas and others not to participate either. In 2004, she caused a scandal by showing one of her breasts to 100 million people during her halftime show. “She asked us not to. She wants to tell her own story,” Lukas said.
At the time, at the end of the song “Rock Your Body”, Janet Jackson let singer Justin Timberlake, with whom she sang, open the leather bodice she wore while they sang: “I’ll get you naked by the end of this song” (“I’ll strip you naked at the end of this song”). Television station CBS, which broadcast the show live from Houston, Texas, quickly cut the scene.
The documentary explores how then-CBS CEO Les Moonves decided to ruin Jackson’s career after the embarrassing incident, while Timberlake’s career blossomed in its wake. The former N’Sync singer received Grammy Awards that year, but Jackson was dropped from the awards.
MTV, owned by Viacom, which produced the halftime show, also barely aired its new music videos, despite calling it the first MTV icon three years before the halftime show.
A source said the episode didn’t end her career. According to the source, Jackson still broke records with albums and entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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