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:

While the Met Gala was going down in New York, Janet Jackson was laying back on a tranquil cloud, happy to announce that the Unbreakable tour—which she postponed last year during her pregnancy—is back on with a new NOT political name.

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…

Janet Jackson is ending her third marriage with husband Wissam Al Mana after five years. Ordinarily, news of this kind would be met with a tepid shrug because now that Brangelina is over, nothing can surprise me. However, the story is growing some peculiar legs due to some probably false and typically misogynistic…

Not to sound creepy but, Janet Jackson’s baby is finally here with us.

In the 31 years that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has been honoring icons of modern music, it has never inducted more than two women or women-led groups per year, and in several of those years (1986, 1994, 2003-2005) not one woman has been inducted. So Joan Baez being voted in for 2017 as the sole woman—alongside a…

The same “prankster” who assaulted Gigi Hadid last week came for Kim Kardashian Wednesday in Paris, this time literally kissing her on the ass before being escorted away by security.

Maybe releasing “Dammn Baby” as her latest single was a cute nod to the fact that she cancelled her world tour in order to have a kid or two, but its existence in this video is purely motivated by the fundamentals, the driving force that Janet Jackson is the greatest of all time. Which is to say, she doesn’t need…