Almost 10 yrs later and Janet fans are still bitter. Look, I blame the whole thing on her. Janet has spent the last 20+ yrs acting trampy in her music, in her videos and on stage. The top coming off seemed like par for the course with her.....................and I'd be willing to bet that the whole idea of his pulling off her top was probably HERS. She should have made sure her skivvies were on tighter (that's IF she wasn't planning on exposing her breasts, which I'm not totally convinced she wasn't.)

Why did Janet's career die while his continued to thrive? Take off your stan hats and examine the situation. Justin was in his early 20s then, was hot off of a successful solo debut and his career was still peaking commercially. Janet was nearly 40 and had already long peaked commercially. Her record sales have been dropping since the middle 90s. Janet then went on to release 3 wack ass albums after that that the public didn't like. The SB only exasperated and sped up what was on course going to happen with her anyway.

Janet put out a garbage album on the heels of the fallout when the controversy was still raging. Justin on the other hand laid low and didn't release another album for 2 years, which allowed people to move on from the topic. Plus his Future Sex album was actually good. Janet's Damita Jo was a turd (as were the two that came after.) Justin handled the situation better by shutting the fuck up, getting out of dodge and coming back strong when people were ready to see him again. Janet stayed in the kitchen, cooked up shitty food and there you go!

I have no idea what Janet's whiny fans wanted from Justin or how they think he should have handled the situation. After the fallout I remember him speaking, saying that neither he nor Janet intended to offend anyone and that he was sorry if anyone was. What more could he have done? It's almost like her fans wanted him to lash out and pick fights with the public and media in her defense. Which would have been stupid and not helped either of them.