More: Beyond the stars: Patriots' Super Bowl stories extend to benchwarmers and practice-squad players. Garzon, 66, speaks with a thick Ecuadoran accent. Details are needed. Details about the alteration, and anything else Garzon knows about the halftime show scandal. How do I say that?
Nipplegate uncovered: how Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction changed the world
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Sure, in that minuscule amount of time, the iconic performer's bare breast had been exposed—inadvertently or otherwise—to the over million people watching TV's biggest event by fellow performer Justin Timberlake and that's no small matter. In the years since that fateful moment in Houston's Reliant Stadium—marking its 15th anniversary on February 1—many questions remain. Did Timberlake, who pulled at Jackson's leather bustier right as his hit song "Rock Your Body" reached its closing "Bet I'll have you naked by the end of this song," exposing her right breast and its sunburst nipple shield as if on cue, pull away more fabric than he ought to have? And did MTV, who were handling production on the big show for their second year in a row, know more than they ever let on? And how do Jessica Simpson, Nelly, Diddy , and Kid Rock —who all also took part in the "Choose or Lose"-themed show—feel about their moments on the stage becoming nothing more than a footnote?
Well, we can hardly either! And because Justin is returning to the big show in , we're taking it all the way back to and reliving the moment as it happened, picture by picture. Janet kicked off the performance, singing "Rhythm Nation" solo, before Justin joined her on stage with "Rock Your Body. When the racy moment was met with outrage by fans and the media, apologies and excuses were made, and the whole thing was deemed a "wardrobe malfunction. While it looked pretty planned to us, Justin still maintains that it was an accident.
Please refresh the page and retry. But the majority of those in the crowd may be better aware of a Jackson performance that happened 15 years ago: the Super Bowl halftime show, of Better known, of course, as Nipplegate. To this day, the details of how and why it happened are murky.