Justin Timberlake's Manly Prance Through the Woods
Here’s hoping the singer’s Super Bowl show blends rootsiness and rhythm more effectively than his new album does.
by Spencer Kornhaber
Feb 02, 2018
4 minutes
At some point in his Super Bowl halftime performance, Justin Timberlake really oughta bring out Janet Jackson. And not just as a mea culpa for her bearing the backlash to their collaborative nipple reveal in 2004, and not just as a way to troll the Parents Television Council. The truth is Timberlake may need fortification. He’s lost the killer ear that makes an arena-commanding pop star.
Then again, he’s got assets in the bank: that undimmable grin, those bendy joints, and the hunger among some segments of the public, still, for a great white savior. Back in the time of his post-’NSync breakout in 2002 and in 2006, the
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