Say what you want about Janet not needing to be anyone's pawn, but she already allowed that to happen when she apologized on TV and accepted responsibility for what happened. I can understand why she did it, but people were determined to hold the incident against her. Janet's career is still suffering, unfortunately. Her choreography and music is still great, so there's really no other excuse for the steep decline in music and ticket sales other than what happened at the Superbowl. I've seen Janet in concert 4 times. The arenas were always full until after the Superbowl. Last week in Kansas City, the entire upper level of the arena was closed off; they made no attempt to sell tickets in that space because they know Janet isn't selling like that anymore. CBS promoted graphic content then as they do now, so what they did to Janet is not OK. I won't be tuning in to watch Justin next year. Why should he continue to have a platform to build on while Janet's has been snatched away?