The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame dinosaurs announced the nominees for its 2019 class of inductees on Tuesday. Thankfully, Janet Jackson was among them, after being left off the nominees list last year. Jackson has already been nominated to the Hall twice before, though. Will this be the last time?
In a bit of reporting that could be described as both a “bombshell” and “totally fucking obvious to anyone who was paying attention,” HuffPo revealed that the longtime CEO and Chairman of CBS Les Moonves was so hopping mad about 2004's Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” that he pledged to ruin Janet Jackson’s career…
Any of us could list off 10 or more things we love about Janet Jackson in a heartbeat—but when she was younger, she says she had a hard time looking in the mirror and doing that herself.
Calling it a comeback was tempting: Almost three years after her most recent album, 2015's Unbreakable, Janet Jackson released a joyous new single and colorful new video. “Made for Now” arrived earlier this month with a slew of promo, marking a complete turnaround from the press-shunning of Jackson’s Unbreakable …
When I read the headline “Watch: Janet Jackson Explores ASMR for the First Time; Talks Plans to Work with Bruno Mars, Her Favorite Food Places and More [Video],” the first thing I thought was, Damn, that’s a long headline. The second thing I thought was, Hmmm, weird that someone would ask Janet Jackson to do ASMR. But…
Not five seconds into their collaborative single, Daddy Yankee kicks off “Made For Now” by giving Janet Jackson’s name the Daddy Yankee treatment. “Janet Jackson!” He yells out. “ICONIC!” If you’re at all familiar with his catalog (it’s great), it sounds similar to the way he calls out his own name, which is by…
I’m going to be honest: I had to turn off the Billboard Music Awards a few moments in, unofficially because Westworld was starting, officially because I could not deal with Kelly Clarkson as host. That doesn’t mean I didn’t flip to the ultimate queen and my birthday twin Janet Jackson when she performed; it does mean…
For her first televised performance in almost a decade at this year’s Billboard Awards, Janet Jackson audaciously performed one of the most sexually explicit songs from her janet. album, which turned 25 on Friday. After tearing through “Nasty,” from 1986's Control (with a bit of instrumental interpolation from the…
There was something a little leaden in Justin Timberlake’s step during Sunday night’s Super Bowl LII Halftime Show; something muted in his voice, which lay low in the sound mix and was occasionally accompanied by backing vocals. The performance ran almost 14 minutes, but felt more like 20 in its slog through eight…
As Justin Timberlake is unlikely to cough up one (1) nut for this evening’s Super Bowl viewers (as my colleagues here at Jezebel have advocated) in retribution for revealing one of Janet Jackson’s breasts at Super Bowl XXXVIII, we can instead observe #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay. Recall how after Timberlake tore off…
It’s fucked up that Justin Timberlake is headlining the Super Bowl halftime show after playing the active role in the Nipplegate scandal that effectively ended Janet Jackson’s commercial viability. It is specifically fucked up because in the aftermath, he weaseled his way out of any accountability only to emerge…
In 2004, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson performed at the Super Bowl halftime show. During this performance, Timberlake exposed Janet Jackson’s nipple—covered by a pasty, but still—to millions of Americans, causing an international crisis from which the world is still reeling.
Justin Timberlake would like to assure you that he “absolutely” took the time to resolve his issues with Janet Jackson after the Super Bowl strip fiasco of 2004.
There’s no confirmation that this man is a father, but if he is, I imagine that can we go to the Janet Jackson concert? was met with an outward dad-sigh, but inside, a spark ignited. “FINE” he said out loud, but a second too soon. This is the moment of a lifetime, he thought to himself.
In a decision thematically consistent with the rest of 2017, Justin Timberlake will be returning to the Super Bowl Halftime Show stage on February 4 in Minneapolis as headlining act, this time sans Janet Jackson.
In the wake of 2004's Super Bowl XXXVIII—the one in which Janet Jackson’s exposed nipple stopped the world dead in its tracks—Justin Timberlake threw Janet Jackson under the bus repeatedly. He showed up at the Grammys a few days later (a ceremony Janet was initially supposed to appear at but was disinvited when the…
George Clooney ripped into Steve Bannon at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday and threw in a bunch of foul language which is totally out of left field for George Clooney, and I kind of like this streak. Thank you, Entertainment Weekly, for this:
Here is a tweet from the one and only Katy Perry that involves baked goods and the vague promise of a “surprise.”
You’ve likely heard that Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry recently concluded their year-long romance. Now Bloom—the man I most associate with elves who state the obvious—is sowing his wild oats. He’s “casually” dating Nina Dobrev and putting moves on model Ashley Haas. In fact, Dobrev was even present during the…
