i wasn’t looking forward to the superbowl seeing as how for the last month the papers have been saying that the patriots were going to win (which they did to no one’s surprise). the only thing that i wanted to see was the “secret performer” at the halftime show who was supposed to perform with janet jackson, p. diddy, kid rock and nelly. some had pegged it as michael jackson which would have been ironic considering there were supposed to be a lot of kids on the field at the same time. a more conservative guess was justin timberlake.

if you’ve been on the web tonight you probably would have found out that it was JT and he finished off the show with janet by doing rock your body. you probably also heard that he made a boo boo at the end of the dance sequence. the official word is that it was an accident, CBS apologized, and NFL officials said that MTV would never do another halftime show.

i’m betting this will be like the britney/madonna kiss from the mtv music awards and be all over the news for the next couple of days. most of the debate will probably centre around whether it was premeditated or indeed an accident. it seems like it was planned because janet had something covering her nipple (nipple ring? pasty?) and could do with all the press with a new album coming out (kinda like paris hilton’s little video right before the simple life), but i’m not so sure about that. here’s my evidence:

the first picture is right after timberlake ripped off janet’s “gladiator clothing” and before her reaction. the second picture’s the kicker, it shows janet giving justin a WTF-did-you-just-do look. janet could have been acting, but she’s a singer not an actor and most singer’s can’t act well (take madonna for example). so i dunno, i’m not saying that it was an accident but it could swing either way (although rock your body does have a line: “i’ll get you naked by the end of this song”)

sidethoughts: if JT wasn’t The Man before, he sure is now.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: popculture, sports, tv