prince , who died in april 2016 , was n’t just minneapolis ’ own king of pop , he also gave the super bowl its best - ever halftime show performance in 2007 .
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it was n’t a super bowl halftime show to die 4 .
timberlake had a history of mocking prince in public , from taking a dig at the 5’2 ’ ’ singer ’s height at the 2007 golden globes to dedicating an entire verse to dissing prince on his
yes , he wore a weird shirt emblazoned with lovingly photographed elk , proving that , no , he has n’t been reading the comments about his much - snickered - about “ man of the woods ” album rollout .
timberlake spent the first couple of valuable minutes under the stage , in a recreation of a sleazy nightclub where you ca n’t see the artist with whom prince had a historically fraught relationship , during a show that fell woefully short of the purple one 's legendary 2007 set .
( feb. 4 ) ap considering sunday 's super bowl was hosted in minneapolis , not paying tribute to prince during the halftime show would ’ ve been sacrilege .
but he brought himself out of that “ filthy ” milieu and out into the stadium open , where he was joined by what seemed like hundreds of dancers on what seemed like thousands of stages .
haters will continue to say it ’s fake — as he correctly prophesied — but at least he made a fast - moving target for ‘ em , moving from platform to platform on the vast field faster than corey clement compared with prince 's , justin timberlake 's halftime show was a joke close sheila e. says justin timberlake reached out to her after she tweeted that prince did n't want to be hologrammed and says she wants " people to know there was no hologram . "