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Remade duet with Beyoncé

I love Justin and I love Beyonce, but this slapped together duet is horrible.

Wasn't there some other duet slapped together like that in recent years? It wasn't JT and MJ on "Love Never Felt So Good," in case that's what you're thinking. It was someone else that kinda came in later.

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Free2BMe said:

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Free2BMe said:

When did Justin throw Prince under the bus? I’ve never seen him do anything except revere and honor Prince.🤔

He dissed him in the song give it to me

Prince made the diss first, Justin answered back. Prince said, "sexy never left," in response to Justin's "Sexyback." (Prince's statement wasn't even a diss, it's just Prince being Prince.)

Justin said, "If sexy never left, then why's everybody on my shi-i-i-t? / Don't hate on me just because you didn't come up with it."

He also allegedly dissed Janet, "Could you speak up and stop mu-mumbling, I don't think you came in clear / When you're sittin' on the top, it's hard to hear you from way up here / I saw you tryin' to act cute on TV, 'Just let me clear the air...' / We missed you on the charts last week, damn, that's right you wasn't there."

Not sure if that's the truth or not about Janet.

But y'all are fragile AF. Grow up.

Adore.

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EmmaMcG said:

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Free2BMe said:

What did he do to Janet? Justin was not the one who had her costume designed. She did. The person who designed her costume said that It was designed to be torn away exposing the breast, thus the nipple ring.

That's a lie.

Next...

TrivialPursuit said:

Free2BMe said:

TrivialPursuit said:

That's a lie.

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According to the designer who did an interview with Entertainment Tonight, it was designed to be torn away exposing the breast. They even showed how it was sewn together and demonstrated how it was supposed to be pulled off in one full piece, There is footage of this. It was also noted in the interview that the nipple ring was worn specifically because the costume was made to expose the breast and nipple ring. If you weren’t around during that time don’t tell me what I saw and heard first hand. I’m not going by heresay, I’m going by what the designer said AT THAT TIME. Janet knew this and so did Jermaine and Randy who bragged backstage that Janet was going to SHOCK everybody. Do you actually think they would have said that if ONLY the lace part of that costume was going to be shown? Some things just take common sense, AND according to the designer, this is what Janet planned with the costume. I actually don’t think Justin knew that the entire cup was going to come away like that. You would have had to see footage of what the designer showed on TV to know that this entire stunt was perceived and planned by Janet. The designer designed the costume as SHE wanted it. It was no accident. The only thing that went wrong was the UNEXPECTED reaction. Janet thought that she could cause controversy like Madonna; however, she forgot that she was a black woman and the public would never accept that from her. If this had happened today, I don’t think it would have had the same reaction. Bottomline, is that Justin is not the reason for exposing Janet’s breast and nipple ring.She planned it that way and it bsckfired. Simple as thst. [Edited 8/16/21 2:58am] [Edited 8/16/21 3:00am]

Of course, I agree that's how it went down. It's so obvious and anybody who thinks there was a "wardrobe malfunction" is most likely a delusional JJ fan.

But still, JT didn't exactly leap to her defense when it backfired. Nor did it impact his career the way it did Janet's, which irks people, as it reeks of white male privilege.

[Edited 8/16/21 3:37am]

alphastreet said:

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alphastreet said:

I remember them talking about some surprises before the show, but I’m not so sure it was exposing the breast. Just my opinion. Anyways, it felt like Justin got away with it

Got away with what, exactly?

I think they mean that Janet got 95% of the brunt of that incident, Justin just sorta walked away from it and had a career. Leslie Moonves, the then-head of CBS, black listed Janet. No CBS radio stations played her music, she couldn't get a video anywhere it seems. She ended up on b-list talk shows like Tyra Banks (although she did later go on Oprah, but Oprah controls her own shit). Moonves was even pissed when he found out she put a book out in 2011, cussing, "How did we miss that?!"

So much of America, and the world, views Black women as the lowest in the pecking order. And with a white man next to her, she was the defacto scapegoat. Frankly, I fully believe the backlash against her was only 30% about her breast. The rest was white supremacy. I wrote about it on my Medium page. If Britney's titty had popped out a few years before when she was i the halftime show, the furor over it would've lasted what...a couple of weeks maybe? Janet's went on for years.

Timberlake got away with no consequences, and frankly I still don't know that he gets it. Although in recent months, his statements about race seem to be a bit more enlightened.

TrivialPursuit said:

EmmaMcG said:

It's unfortunate how things turned out for her but I don't see how Justin Timberlake had anything to do with it. If it had been Usher performing with Janet instead I doubt he'd have been treated any differently to JT.

Well that might be because Justin & Usher are male. Chris Brown never stopped getting radio airplay after the Rihanna incident (and had a recent hit single), but the Dixie Chicks got banned from many country radio stations because of a comment about Dubya. Gene Simmons & Kanye West say all kinds of things, it never hurt their career. I wonder if Justin would have had the same outcome with today's cancel culture/me too generation.

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