Justin Timberlake’s 2018 Super Bowl Half Time Show will feature a hologram to honor Prince, reports TMZ. The event takes place in Prince’s hometown of Minneapolis, 11 years after the late singer delivered an unforgettable performance at the Halftime Show in Miami, and nearly two years after the legendary songwriter’s death of an accidental overdose. Details on the hologram were not provided by the source.
According to the report, rumored guests including Justin’s former boy band N*SYNC, and Janet Jackson, who Timberlake has received criticism for letting take the fall for the Nipplegate controversy at the 2004 Super Bowl, will not make appearances.
Earlier this week, Timberlake spoke of Prince’s influence at a press conference. “In my opinion, the greatest all-around musician in popular culture,” he said. “The time I got to spend around him, with him, talking about music. Those are memories that I’ll take with me forever.”
On the other hand, Prince would’ve hated this. Here’s Prince in a 1998 interview with Guitar World:
Guitar World: “With digital editing, it is now possible to create a situation where you could jam with any artist from the past. Would you ever consider doing something like that?”
Prince: “Certainly not. That’s the most demonic thing imaginable. Everything is as it is, and it should be. If I was meant to jam with Duke Ellington, we would have lived in the same age. That whole virtual reality thing… it really is demonic. And I am not a demon. Also, what they did with that Beatles song [“Free As a Bird”], manipulating John Lennon’s voice to have him singing from across the grave… that’ll never happen to me. To prevent that kind of thing from happening is another reason why I want artistic control.”
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