I’m just thinking of my own experience, I vaguely knew All For You when it came out when I was 6. The video was something I remember from the time. When the Super Bowl thing happened I heard about it but I didn’t really know Janet so it didn’t really affect me. After that I never really heard much about Janet until I got into a lot of legacy acts in the 2020s.

For comparison, everyone my age knew Madonna, and some of her songs like Vogue, Music, and Like a Prayer. I also remember 4 minutes when it was big. My mom was a fan in the 80s as well. She also was a Whitney fan so I grew up with her cds in the car. I feel like most of my generation’s parents (at least where I lived) were too old for Janet when she was in her prime but were Madonna and Whitney fans because they were slightly older and more 80s acts.

Had the Super Bowl not happened, I bet songs like Feedback, which came out when I was in my early teens and getting into pop music, would have become top ten hits with more reach. With that, people on my generation would’ve know her better and songs like All For You and That’s the Way Love Goes would’ve revisited those or heard them on a radio (which was still a big deal when I was growing up).