Halftime ‘Shock’ Is Mere Overexposure

Renee Graham of the Boston Globe shared his thoughts on Janet Jackson’s breast flashing moment at the Super Bowl in Houston on Sunday (February 1). Graham writes, “These days, it doesn’t matter what people say about you so long as they’re saying something, and Jackson, who’s kept a fairly low profile in recent years, is about to drop her latest album, on March 30. One of her producers, Dallas Austin, has been chatting up her new CD as ‘easily the most sexy thing she’s done’ and compared the album to Prince’s 1980 classic ‘Dirty Mind’. So what better way for Jackson to promote her daring new direction and sexual freedom (which already sounds like her same old direction and sexual freedom) than to flash more skin than usual in front of a worldwide audience in excess of 1 billion?” Read more.