Tuesday, October 17, 2006

This is digital pop. We are the Andy Warhol of the Internet


At the halftime show of SuperBowl XXXviii Justin Timberlake sang the line "I'm gonna have you naked by the end of this song" and tore the right breast from Janet Jackson's costume. A scandal ensued, and the following day news outlets in North America digitally altered the image of Janet's breast on television and in newsprint. The unaltered image of Janet's breast was available on the Internet, which caused it to be, in the words of the Lycos Top 50, "the most searched for event in the history of the Internet".

The incident was referred to as a "wardrobe malfunction", a glitch in the half-time show that provides an erotic error to launch the signal text of glitch art.

This is digital pop. We are the Andy Warhol of the Internet.





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