Justin Timberlake performs during the iHeartRadio Music Awards, Monday, April 1, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The singer's tour stops in Cleveland this Sunday for a sold-out show. has had a relatively rough couple of weeks in terms of his public persona.
But Timberlake’s quick and complete public abandonment of Janet Jackson following the famous 2004 Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction,” was simply an act of cowardice and worthy of being periodically reexamined. Spears, of course, got a modicum of revenge, if that’s what she values, in her recent memoir, “The Woman in Me,” where she airs Timberlake and NSYNC out for cultural appropriation and “trying a bit too hard” to fit in, be accepted by and befriend all the groovy and cool black artists they were meeting and hanging out with at the time.be embarrassing), Timberlake has a tour to complete.
If record sales and streaming numbers tell one tale about an artist’s continued or resurging popularity , the road is where artists truly find out who still loves them through fans paying way too much for tickets, parking, food and beverages just to share a big room and watch and listen to the star on the stage.
The longtime Timberlake/Timbaland songwriting/production team is still in place along with Timbaland acolyte/co-producer Danja but minus The Netptunes, who produced much of Timberlake’s debut and most of “Man of The Woods.”