A few days before the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, CBS sent out a
dress-code memo to make sure that “…buttocks and female breasts are adequately
covered. Thong type costumes are problematic…” If we consider that Katy
Perry’s green dress with full view cleavage is within the rules, then people
chose relatively conservative outfits.
Although throughout the history of the Grammy Awards there have been crazy
outfits from extroverted personalities, last time an attendee wore a
“problematic” costume was 13 years ago, when Jennifer Lopez chose to wear a
sexy green Versace dress that looked more like a semi-open bathrobe. So, why is
CBS so particularly interested in forcing a dress code this year as opposed to
the year after Jennifer Lopez’s almost naked gown exhibition?
I don't exactly know the answer to that question, but Janet Jackson’s wardrobe
malfunction at the Super Bowl almost cost CBS a half million dollar fined by
the FCC for obscenity, so is it understandable that CBS producers want to be safe
than sorry.
Ironically, it is not hard to agree that popular media currently has much more
explicit sexual material on TV programming or advertisements than the outfits
celebrities wear on the red carpet. CBS carries images as part of its
commercial culture in which women are being treated as property and
commodities, but there is no rule for regulating these images.
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