Only now she'd have to do it whilst dodging questions about her ex-boyfriend's music. She had her own disc to promote-2003's In the Zone serving as her fourth release in less than five years. I was like, 'Why is he going on these shows and they're asking him and he's talking?' You know, but I'm sure, just like right now, you're asking me about it and I'm talking about it and it just kind of comes out."īecause there was little time for the pop princess to avoid the subject. With the #MeToo movement and terms like "sex-positivity" still a couple of decades off, Timberlake was hailed as a conquering hero Spears, a questionable role model for her young fans.Īnd though the "Sometimes" singer remained silent on what did or did not take place behind closed doors, she confessed to Diane Sawyer during that much-maligned-in-retrospect November 2003 interview, "It was a really weird time." Listening to her former boyfriend gleefully dish on "what we did together, sexually and stuff," she continued, "I just felt very exploited and very weird. When asked, "Did you f-k Britney Spears, yes or no?", he responded, "Okay, I did it!" prompting the gaggle of bros to break out in raucous cheers.īy the time he covered Details in December 2002, the mag was proclaiming, "Can we ever forgive Justin Timberlake for all that sissy music? Hey.at least he got into Britney's pants." He'd already addressed the subject two months earlier on the Star and Buc Wild Morning Show. Timberlake could hardly manage a straight face when Walters brought up a quote Spears had given saying "good morals mean waiting to have sex until after you've been married." Asked if they'd "lived up" to that messaging during their relationship, he cracked, "Sure," with a laugh before staring directly into the camera and repeating himself: "Sure." In "Framing Britney Spears," the latest episode of FX's The New York Times Presents docu-series, we were all reminded how crassly the twentysomethings' sex life was discussed in the wake of their split and just how easily Spears was slotted into the role of villain. Until one day, seemingly out of the blue, they just didn't, their March 2002 breakup leaving fans floored, confused and, in some cases, even a little crushed, the news tearin' up their hearts. Like, we've gone through so much together and we've known each other since we were 12 years old. "It is a deeper love now than when I was younger. He's everything," Spears mused in a September 2001 interview with The Guardian. As far as love is concerned, with him, too much is not enough. They collected more trophies than they could possibly display in their shared Hollywood Hills home and even almost managed to make matching denim on denim on denim look good at the American Music Awards. (They didn't, but if anyone could have pulled off jeans as formal wear it would have been music's flaxen-tressed power duo.)īut mostly, Pinky and Stinky were just really, really in love, y'all. They performed during the Super Bowl halftime show and appeared together on Saturday Night Live. Theirs was a connection filled with all the passion and excitement of first love-"I was infatuated with her from the moment I saw her," he later told GQ-plus a heady rush of success, the pair dominating in a space also occupied by the likes of Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, Destiny's Child and the Backstreet Boys. Baby One More Time that made school uniforms cool and parents aghast and he was hard at work on 'N Sync's follow up to their equally successful self-titled release. At the time, she was just about to break through with her multiplatinum debut. Pop music's golden couple, they were pretty much the cutest thing you ever did see when they began dating in 1999, sharing anecdotes about how they developed mutual crushes while working together as tweens in 1992 on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (he was her first kiss!) before reconnecting seven years later. Before there was Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, or Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz or even Beyoncé and Jay-Z, there was Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears.
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