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What connects Janet Jackson’s ‘wardrobe malfunction’ to Shonda Rhimes and John Singleton?

From the Super Bowl to groundbreaking cinema: we jump down the rabbit hole, via a detour to Britney Spears

A new documentary, Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson, has revisited the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” at the 2004 Super Bowl half-time show, when Justin Timberlake exposed one of Janet Jackson’s breasts – and nipple adornment – for about a half a second, causing America to lose its collective mind in a manner that was unfathomable then and remains unfathomable now.

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