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Airdate: The Rise and Fall of Janet Jackson

Music doco profiles how Janet Jackson's career trajectory changed after that Super Bowl incident...

Music documentary The Rise and Fall of Janet Jackson will screen next week on Nine.

This is an FX / Hulu doco on how her career trajectory changed after that Super Bowl incident… (not to be confused with another Jackson has done for Lifetime in the USA).

In 2004, a culture war brews as the Super Bowl halftime show audience sees a white man expose a Black woman’s breast for 9/16ths of a second; a national furore ensued; the woman was Janet Jackson, and her career was never the same.

9:10pm Wednesday on Nine.

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  1. Janets career was on the downward trajectory long before boobgate. 2001 was when Janet last made a impact on pop charts globally and her fame was at its peak between 1986-96 wrapped nicely with the Design of the Decade best of album. Good programming by Nine, striking whilst the Iron is hot with Stans broadcast of Janet Jackson which I’m sure will make huge headlines over the coming week with tell all bits.

    1. Just because Springsteen and The Rolling Stones don’t sell albums anymore, it doesn’t mean their careers are on the downward trajectory. It just means they transition to touring artists or artists who spend their time leveraging their catalogue in other ways. The way Janet Jackson was treated was abhorrent.

    1. All For You was Billboard’s third biggest song of 2001 and the associated album sold about 5M copies. The tour grossed $50M before being cut short only a third of the way through because of 9/11. This was an artist in their prime. This incident has had a huge impact on her career.

  2. Really! They can make something out of nothing. It wasn’t the Super Bowl incident. Like Madonna and other singers, the latter single releases didn’t chart because they didn’t choose the right producers and the songs didn’t resonate well enough for them to chart. If something like “Got ‘Til It’s Gone” was released in 2005, it would have probably still charted well.

    1. Janet was expressly blacklisted from most major media outlets, banned from radio and disinvited to award shows. Her career would have suffered as a result. Despite all this, her last 4 albums (since the Super Bowl have all peaked at either #1 or #2).

      In any event, the authorised documentary airing on Stan this weekend is the documentary I’ll be watching.

      1. Being disinvited to award shows certainly wouldn’t have helped. I’m sure many other radio or tv shows would have jumped at the chance to have exclusive encounters with Janet. In terms of singles, the last single from Janet to chart in the main singles chart in Australia was ‘Feedback’ at #50 in 2008 as a solo artist. Or 2010 if including the ‘We Are the World 25 for Haiti’ collaboration.

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