Britney Spears has a message for her ex Justin Timberlake: I'm sorry. Also, your new song is really good, even though fans compare it to my song of the same name.
It seems the pop superstar couldn't avoid Timberlake's comeback press tour for long. She apologized days after the former 'NSync frontman released a new single, teased his album “Everything I Thought It Was” and announced a corresponding world tour; She later guest starred on “Saturday Night Live.”
The promotional whirlwind comes months after the “SexyBack” singer was named in Spears’ October memoir, “The Woman in Me,” in which she alleged she had an abortion at Timberlake’s behest when they dated at the turn of the century. . Timberlake has not commented publicly on the “Lucky” singer's revelation about her high-profile affair, which hit him and several other powerful men in his life hard.
Although Timberlake, 42, kept a low profile during the book's publication, Spears was accused of hindering his planned revival, which included an 'NSync reunion at the MTV VMAs and the premiere of the movie “Trolls Band Together.” The 10-time Grammy winner seemed to touch the buzz when he headlined the splashy Fontainebleau Las Vegas opening last month with his wife, Jessica Biel, performing their performance of her Spears breakup hit, “Cry Me a River,” with the disclaimer of responsibility “without disrespect”. (He also publicly apologized to Spears in 2021 amid her conservatorship battle.)
Spears, also 42, appears to regret some of what led up to that drama, and she said as much on Sunday.
“I want to apologize for some of the things I wrote about in my book,” he wrote on Instagram Sunday, sharing clips from Timberlake's appearance Thursday on “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon. “If I offended any of the people I really care about, I'm deeply sorry…”
“I also wanted to say that I'm in love with Justin Timberlake's new song, 'Selfish.' She's so good and how come every time I see Justin and Jimmy together I laugh so much? she added. “Ps 'Sanctified' is amazing too 🤩”
Spears, who said earlier this month that she will “never return to the music industry,” did not directly address the fan-driven competition between Timberlake's new release and her own song “Selfish” from her 2011 album, “Femme Fatale.” ”. Her ardent fans didn't like that Timberlake's musical comeback hinged on a song of the same title, and they immediately made a splash in digital music in an attempt to take Spears' 13-year-old song beyond her ex's on the US iTunes chart.
Meanwhile, Timberlake returned to Studio 8H on Saturday as the musical guest on “SNL,” joining his “The Social Network” co-star Dakota Johnson and Fallon on stage throughout the show. Although he toyed with the idea of being a host and not officially anchors the episode, the five-time host (resulting in four Emmy Awards) still repeatedly stole the show, according to The Times' episode summary.
The musician has also said that his new album, for which he initially wrote 100 songs, is his “best work” and will give listeners a “real” perspective on him.
“I feel like I was able, in some of the songs, to look back at the past and have a real, unrefracted perspective of what was because they always say… you always hear that, well, there's never any truth, there just exists.” everyone's perspective on what happened, but to actually look at it and be able to metabolize and verbalize my perspective on it, I don't think I've done that before,” Zane Lowe told Apple Music 1 last week.
