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Thursday, August 17, 2006

Justin Timberlake talks about infamous Houston moment

Justin Timberlake is making his rounds promoting his new album. Normally I wouldn't touch this news, but he does talk about his infamous appearance at the 2004 Super Bowl in Houston's Reliant Stadium:
The latter couldn't have come at a better time. Not only had he just
started a high-profile relationship with actress Cameron Diaz, but he
was coming off a PR disaster in his now-infamous Super Bowl
performance with Janet Jackson. Justin apologized immediately, but
some felt he shifted the blame solely to Jackson, whose breast he
exposed as he sang, "I'll have you naked by the end of this song."

"In my honest opinion now ... I could've handled it better," Justin
admits. "I'm part of a community that consider themselves artists. And
if there was something I could have done in her defense that was more
than I realized then, I would have. But the other half of me was like,
'Wow. We still haven't found the weapons of mass destruction and
everybody cares about this!' "

In retrospect, Timberlake thinks he should have been held more
responsible. "I probably got 10 percent of the blame, and that says
something about society," he explains. "I think that America's harsher
on women. And I think that America is, you know, unfairly harsh on
ethnic people."
The real victims (crying a river) here are the broadcasters under fire from the FCC because of this incident. Thanks Janet and Justin, don't perform a duet ever again!

I missed the live performance that Sunday night. I was working, but not at the actual game, I was across the street.

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