On the one hand I think by now TMZ or someone would have rehearsal pics, maybe for N'Sync but definitely for Janet

On the other hand Justin said in his press conference there won't be any guests and I can't think of the last time there were no guests at a super bowl appearance--maybe Prince and before than maybe MJ? Like, even Beyonce had DC with her...

And he ain't no prince or MJ so I am curious...

Poll question: Y'all think Justin is lying when he says no N'Sync or Janet at SB?

Poll result (6 votes) He's lying (1 votes) Vote He is telling the truth (5 votes) Vote

they'll never let her back on the superbowl. shit has she even been on the grammy's since? viacom might've put that lifetime blackball on her.

Dude is gonna go all out to try to garner some interest and improve the outlook on it. I'm guessing it'll be him solo, doing his best to get people talking about hims music positively again.

Its better than the last one. My only problem is he needs to drop the comedic undertone in his videos. Keep that shit for SNL of movies. The latest video looks like him makng his own outdoors lumberjack version of the Happy video. Didnt play it cool the way Pharrell did in his video.

I also think they picked the wrong order of singles. But if you throw on the album there is no reason eapexually on his board to not like this albm unelss you are a weirdo still holding on to white thing or titty thing. Dont act grown up on this site and have petty grudges with people you dont know shit is weird lol


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...that reads like our very own "Loud But Wrong Guy".


I know I ain't the only one that saw it.

which really just means BWHAT uses
"reverse racism" psychology to defend his
precious white folks regardless of how
fucked up they are.
We're not supposed to notice tho.

https://twitter.com/sheilaedrummer/status/960004762845396993

Thank fuck.

... "A Beautiful Struggle"
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The Escovedos aint playin!

I bet the whole time she was on the phone wit'eem, she had nothin but African percussion playin inna back. Justin heard dem *drums and got shook off da realness!


I'm biased tho,...Sheila E. and Sade were my first pre-pubescent crushes,...ol sexy azz muhfukkaz.

Jay may come thru for suit and tie...

he could've just sang the song for a tribute. no need to put the extra on it.

and JT was singing along with the crowd, blending it into his own song.

it was way more tasteful than any "hologram" has ever been, a very traditional tribute.

all in all, a decent half time show. dude went all over the field and only played the hits (sure, he opened with one new song, but whatever).

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>and JT was singing along with the crowd, blending it into his
>own song.
>
>it was way more tasteful than any "hologram" has ever been, a
>very traditional tribute.
>
>all in all, a decent half time show. dude went all over the
>field and only played the hits (sure, he opened with one new
>song, but whatever).

Man...fuck that dude....lol

I cried in the middle of a family pizza joint when I heard Prince died.

but I'll take that. seeing the city lit up was cool.

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are useless and disingenuous.
As important as Prince's image was to him,
anybody thinking he would be cool with his
image being used here obviously never listened
to the man when he spoke about these sorts of
things. Hell, he was especially strict about
his music being used. If you liked it, cool,
but saying you gave a damn about Prince is lies
at this point when you think your tears are
more important than what he wanted.
At least when Joe Corn Moe was here, he'd say
"fuck what the artist wanted" so we knew he
was a deplorable human being.



>I cried in the middle of a family pizza joint when I heard
>Prince died.
>
>but I'll take that. seeing the city lit up was cool.

I think I agree with him, to a point. I would rather see a tasteful tribute to Prince at the Minneapolis Super Bowl than not. Felt more like an extension of the Grammys than a demonic reincarnation.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

when Prince died? Dude said he cried.

You have no moral authority to question how dude felt about his death.

SMH.



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Even he said my assessment was fair but you the one mad LOL.

Smh.

How you going to tell someone they weren't genuinely hurt when Prince died AND people take you seriously?

Did you cry?

Have you ever listened to a bootleg Prince song or stream his music now?





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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>How you going to tell someone they weren't genuinely hurt
>when Prince died AND people take you seriously?



So your problem here isn't even with me, per se, but with "people" engaging me seriously? Do you mean to come off so jealous and pathetic or is that an accident on your part? Handle these kinds of issues within yourself before you address me.
You just need to be thankful that anyone takes YOU seriously when you speak on sociopolitical issues *after* you admitted to being dumb and getting dumber due to a lack of reading and inability to finish a damn book.
Come to think of it, that's exactly why it's always a conflict masquerading as a discussion with you. You lack info and are just operating based on your jealousy. Thanks for clearing that up. Now run along and read some self-help books. Make sure you finish them.

I would rather see a Prince tribute at the Minnesota Super Bowl no matter how hard a stance Prince had taken against it, though no such story seems to be out there. He thought holograms were demonic, and I agree they are stupid, and Timberlake did not use a hologram, so I'm glad he did what he did, regardless of (though also as best I can tell in total vacancy of) an argument from Prince he also would not have liked that.

Prince is dead. I like being reminded that he lived.

edit: to further Be Claro ©, I was posting after several rounds with a bottle of Dickel Rye and in no condition to fight your feelings. But I also think it's bullshit that there's only ever one way to approach an artist's art, even if that artist asserts that's the case.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

>I would rather see a Prince tribute at the Minnesota Super
>Bowl no matter how hard a stance Prince had taken against it

>I also think it's bullshit that
>there's only ever one way to approach an artist's art, even if
>that artist asserts that's the case.



In light of those statements, there's
nothing 2 b added nor taken away from
my initial response.

The fact that the city took part makes it clear it was bigger than JT.

The family signed off on it and almost all concerts that honor fallen singers at stadiums feature a projection or image of that fallen artist.

Everyone who has ever listened to a Prince bootleg or even listen to his music on streaming services now talking about respecting Prince's wishes is full of the stinkiest shit.

The JT show was weak, safe and boring, but there are plenty of other reasons to criticize it other than the Prince tribute.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Imagine the outrage if he DIDNT pay respects to Prince.

Overall I thought it was tasteful.

The symbol lights outside the stadium were beautiful.

And yeah it was a crowd participation kinda thing. And I geeked out when I heard the Linn snares ramp up into the tribute potion.

And I just saw Morris give his approval on FB.

don't ever ever ever let JT sing a prince song and not check him on it.

That ish lasted seconds lol

Wasn't that big of a deal.

and said "I won't perform his music out of
respect for his views" or something. Now
THAT might have gained some respect from me.
We know Prince was strict about that, and
I personally don't need Timberlake to sing
one of his songs in order to feel sad about
him passing. Ppl in here on some "BUT I
CRIED DOE!" as if their emotions are more
important than Prince's wishes. How self-
absorbed is that?

as if he had to do the tribute and could only do it one way.

He could have worked with Quest or Shelia E. He had several choices that would not involve disrespecting Prince wishes.

so it was really a thing.

and yeah, folks kill me with that "but he had to do it"

nah, he coulda let that shit fade to purple at the end.

I didn't even see any news about the hologram being a real thing.

his passing is still fresh on people's minds and it made since because of the host city.

when I saw the piano, I felt it was about to happen. my issue is I don't feel the need for the projection. he would've been totally fine without it.

I have no beef with Timberlake. however, the overall performance was tepid at best. putting the image of didn't help me like it more.

the purple lights in the city and the symbol was pretty dope.

Prince didn’t like holograms. It wasn’t that. It was very clearly a tribute and a classy one. Y’all can argue over their personal relationship but this wasn’t against Princes wishes in that often retweeted paragraph.

Now.

Walking into the stadium to Rock Your Body? THAT was disrespectful as fuck. No class.

When MN turned purple and then turned into the Prince symbol...

That shit warmed my heart...

Show was SUPER safe otherwise..

the Prince tribute was cool,however Timberfake is cornball and boring.

he got a weak sauce album and he is trying too hard as being a all around entertainer. this turkey is the face of B level being pushed to a High tier and even White Folks ain't even go for that Timberfakery

from the opening to the wardrobe.

the album only makes things worse.

he mostly danced and put out some week ass vocals. His falsetto was false as fuck too.

Can't believe Quest and Morris was ok with it.

it was a pretty mediocre and average halftime show overall

it was much more a tribute than whatever it is folks are pretending it was

>it was much more a tribute than whatever it is folks are
>pretending it was

Folks had me thinking he was going to sacrifice someone on stage to bring the second coming of Prince or something.

They were in Minnesota, there was a brief moment of Prince tribute then the show went on. Still trying to figure out what all the crying is about.

Dude was in a no win situation.

I thought it was respectful, and the highlight of his mediocre show.

Bruno Mars you aint, baby...





Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




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>Dude was in a no win situation.
>
>I thought it was respectful, and the highlight of his mediocre
>show.
>
>Bruno Mars you aint, baby...
>
>
>
>
>
>Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..
>
>
>
>
>http://soundcloud.com/rayandersonjr

But I was..

Honestly, I liked what he did better than Bruno dressing like him and playing his guitar.

He played his song with the Linn drum in it...sang a few seconds of the song, and got out...it was perfect..





Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




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you don't think it's atall out of place? rude? disrespectful? all things (known) considered?

Ok look, some of you might think I'm being dramatic about #JusticeForJanet. If so, I would ask that you go back and watch the interview Justin Timberlake gave on Entertainment Tonight not long after the infamous 2004 Super Bowl halftime show (below @6:10).

Watch as this little of raggedy pantomimes clutching his pearls and comes back TWICE to reiterate how "appalled" and "embarrassed" he was to see part of a Black woman's breast after personally ripping the clothes off her breast, corresponding exactly to the lyrics in his own song. Check out the terrible acting when he pretends he's too innocent to say the word "brassiere" without blushing. Notice how he goes out of his way to call the event a "stunt" (not an accident) that HE did not want to participate in and that HE had no idea would happen, leaving plenty of room to infer that SHE did.

Watch and listen, because this is the same smarmy, self-serving, slut-shaming misogyny that says:
- a woman who dresses provocatively is to blame for her sexual assault
- a woman who shares nude photos is at fault if those photos are made public against her will
- Kim Kardashian is a worthless whore but Hugh Hefner is an icon
- men skillful enough to become multimillionaires in their fields are still too hapless and naive to understand what is/isn't sexually appropriate
- if you're a rich, famous man (especially if you're White) you can grab women by the p*ssy or anywhere else (especially if they're non-White) because ultimately everyone will forgive you and not her.

If #TimesUp for real and #BlackLivesMatter then it's not enough just to call out violent rapists and the Klan. We need to tear down the entire culture that protects weak-ass, entitled men who deliberately weaponize their privilege so that they won't ever have to face up to their wrongdoing or inadequacies.* And we need to speak up for the women and people of color whose lives and careers are ruined as a result.

In conclusion: F*ck. Justin. Timberlake.

*Sound like anyone else we know?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq1j6I4oL5g


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"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

https://www.vladtv.com/article/240656/justin-timberlake-honored-prince-at-super-bowl-after-questloves-blessing

interesting.

i guess i didn't know it was his permission to give.

>https://www.vladtv.com/article/240656/justin-timberlake-honored-prince-at-super-bowl-after-questloves-blessing
>
>interesting.
>
>i guess i didn't know it was his permission to give.

"quest been a black apologist for years"

accurate?

1. two celebs don't care for each other much
2. one is a black legend, other is a yt appropriator
3. blk legend dies w/ many of his views (concerning said appropriator and how folks should be "honored") known
4. yt appropriator uses blk legend's image in a way that he was directly against
5. folks call out the disrespect

but mofos is "postin extremely hurt"?

....seems like folks are calling out the disrespect.

prince is DEAD and can't speak for himself.

shit is foul and all too familiar. (same thing happening to 'pac right today)

and if the above is true, questo is wack for that.

- no fake "duet" with Prince vox on tape
- no CGI bullshit
- no tasteless appropriation

THEY

- lit Minneapolis purple & paid tribute to Prince in a very respectful manner


What would've happened if Justin didnt do shit?

At the end of it there was no winning this, but this was by far the better way to lose