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Timberlake still trying to explain halftime fiasco


According to Justin Timberlake, no one was worried about his Super Bowl halftime show repeating the infamous incident with Janet Jackson at his last halftime show.

"Naturally, that's something we talked about. To be honest, it wasn't too much of a conversation," he said. "It's just one of those things were you go like, yeah what do you want me to say, we're not going to do that again."

As for his last time on the Super Bowl stage?

"I had my wires crossed and it's just something that you have to look back on and go like, OK, well you know, you can't change what's happened but you can move forward and learn from it."

And he said that he and Janet Jackson quickly resolved the situation between themselves after it happened.

"Absolutely," he replied. "I don't know that a lot of people know that. I don't think it's my job to (discuss those conversations) because you value the relationships that you do have with people."

Timberlake addressed the incident shortly after it was announced he'd be the performer in the upcoming Super Bowl halftime show. But, it's still brought up a number of questions about how Jackson was treated after the incident compared to Timberlake, whose career has continued to flourish.

"I probably got 10 percent of the blame, and that says something about society," Timberlake said in 2006. I think that America's harsher on women. And I think that America is, you know, unfairly harsh on ethnic people."

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