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Originally posted by atrlster
Let's not act like Janet's material after Nipplegate is exactly her best or in line with trends either. But yes, there is a difference because what Janet did was much worse to the public. Is that clear?
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Yes, and that's what I had said - the circumstances were different and they had no reason to be mad at Madonna because she didn't do it live to millions of people.
However:
1 - the backlash was not comparable AT ALL as you're trying to portrait. Janet's was infinitely harsher, because she's a Jackson, she's black, and she did it on the Superbowl. Madonna's reputation was tainted but it was child's play next to this.
2 - her flops have more to do with a radio ban than with anything else. She even got pretty nice positions for someone who was nonexistent on Clear Channel's stations. If you think that, for example, "All Nite" or "Rock With U" were kept from the Hot 100 because they're not good songs, well, that's you. One in a million.