{"id":2440948,"date":"2019-02-23T11:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=799277"},"modified":"2019-02-23T11:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T18:21:14","slug":"adam-levines-nipples-at-super-bowl-prompt-complaints-to-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/adam-levines-nipples-at-super-bowl-prompt-complaints-to-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Levine\u2019s Nipples at Super Bowl Prompt Complaints to FCC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fifteen years after Janet Jackson\u2019s \u201cwardrobe malfunction\u201d during the Super Bowl<\/a> halftime show, Adam Levine<\/a> took off his shirt to reveal his own nipples during the Maroon 5\u2019s halftime gig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Levine\u2019s strip show didn\u2019t result in a nationwide uproar like the original Nipplegate<\/a>, more than 50 viewers filed complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC<\/a>) about the musician\u2019s nipples, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, who obtained documentation on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want him banned, just like they did Janet,\u201d one consumer from Boise, Idaho wrote to the FCC; in fact, many of the complaints were filed by those who questioned why Jackson was rebuked for her accidental \u201cwardrobe malfunction\u201d yet Levine\u2019s intentional disrobing went unpunished.<\/p>\n

Another consumer from Lakewood, New York wrote that Maroon 5<\/a> \u201cshould be met with twice the consequences\u201d that Jackson faced for the \u201cwardrobe malfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am writing because I am upset about the half-naked stripper on stage of the halftime show,\u201d a Fremont, California viewer wrote.<\/p>\n

The FCC also received more than two dozen complaints from parents who were mad that their children had to see the trailer for Jordan Peele\u2019s forthcoming horror film\u00a0Us<\/em>, which aired a Super Bowl ad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a letter to THR<\/em>, Nancy Stevenson, FCC deputy chief for the consumer policy division, said that \u201cthe agency isn\u2019t required to keep records of informal complaints for more than three years,\u201d meaning the records of consumer complaints about Jackson have been discarded.<\/p>\n

When the incident occurred back in 2004, it was reported that more than 500,000 people filed complaints with the FCC. A fine of $550,000 was even issued by the FCC, but was later thrown out after a legal battle that almost ended up at the Supreme Court.<\/a> Jackson took on the blame for the situation while Timberlake essentially walked away without any repercussions.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years after Janet Jackson\u2019s \u201cwardrobe malfunction\u201d during the Super Bowl halftime show, Adam Levine took off his shirt to reveal his own nipples during the Maroon 5\u2019s halftime gig. While Levine\u2019s strip show didn\u2019t result in a nationwide uproar like the original Nipplegate, more than 50 viewers filed complaints to the Federal Communications Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 13:02:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}