Justin Timberlake To Play Super Bowl Halftime Show 14 Years After Nipplegate @ARTISTdirect
Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:53:58 In a short skit with Jimmy Fallon posted to Twitter Sunday night, Justin Timberlake announced he will be performing in the halftime show of this coming Super Bowl, officially known as the Pepsi Halftime Show at Super Bowl LII. Of course, no mention of the announcement can be considered complete without mentioning the events that occurred at the tail end of the Super Bowl XXXVII show, when Timberlake finished his dance number by revealing the breast of fellow performer Janet Jackson while singing the final line, "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song." The cultural and legal repercussions of the 9/16th's of a second when Jackson's breast and a sun-shaped nipple decoration were revealed to the world cannot be understated. The FCC immediately slapped CBS with a $550,000 fine following complaints by an alleged 540,000 viewers. The NFL blames MTV, while CBS and Viacom blacklisted Janet Jackson across their wide range of communications...