http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:45:43 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/02/01/223444.php#comment-623535 300+ comments and only about 4, if not less, mentions of Justin Timberlake. Taking jabs at Janet Jackson's all of a sudden 'lack of talent' (I've never heard anyone damning her for that before the incident) assuming this was all a publicity stunt for a new album, despite the fact that A) She performed two old hits, which cannot promote new material B) The breast baring occured during Justin Timberlake's song C) She actually didn't have an album to release at that point, but most especially D) Her last album, only 1 and a half years before she performed, was extremely successful. Her most successful album to date, mind you. Why would she all of a sudden wake up and find the need to pull something like this -- SOMETHING THAT SHE HAS NEVER DONE/KNOWN FOR DOING -- to "sell records"? Madonna formatted her entire career on shock, controversry and marketting when she doesn't really posess any sort of real talent, yet the American public puts her on a pedestal and praises her for "reinventating herself" and all that other lame hype. Janet, who is by far a better singer, dancer, actress and arguably all around entertainer, gets damned for doing something similar, for ONE time in her life? She apologized because she was ASKED to. Justin did the same, only thing is he copped out and pretended that it was all her fault, when actually there is footage to be found of him talking about it in amusement right afterwards (oops). To say that Justin was only doing what he was told, he is older than 21 years old. I think he can decide for himself what is appropriate or not inappropriate, and cannot be dictated to if that were to happen (yeah right). I very much doubt Jackson held a gun to Justin's head. Its a shame that the FCC has fined Janet (not Justin, how strange) for that much money because of the MTV fall out. Now, concerning Music Television Videos, this is a channel, where, during their Spring Break programs they show horny half naked and censored fully nude college students/high schoolers licking whip cream off of each other's exposed bodies, stripping and I even remember one clip where one woman opened her legs (they blurred out her crotch) while doing a highly provactive strip routine in some sort of contest, as judges jaw's dropped and the audience cheers. Now MTV are all of a sudden prudes? They have no problem supporting Justin Timberlake; who should just be as accountable as Jackson, but they have banned and blacklisting Janet Jackson -- who ironically, they just honored as the first mtvICON in 2001, not long before the incident happened! No wonder people outside the USA laugh at Americans. We're so consummed with entertainers/celebrities -- and even their personal lives, that we overlook what really matters. Look at our "newspapers" -- how many of them now have turned to sensationalized format? Gossip columns? Terrorists must be having a ball as we bombared and dicuss the latest Britney Spears' Lindsay Lohan's drunken escapades while they kill more of our citizens in a pointless war we again, let President Bush go on with because nobody cared enough to protest. At least, not in numbers (and those who did got arrested). 623535@blogcritics.org Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:45:43 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/02/01/223444.php#comment-583444 i still love here and one day i will meet her to love you aways ian j cooer 583444@blogcritics.org Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:42:32 EDT