Justin Timberlake delivers a competent if joyless show
by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times
Feb 05, 2018
3 minutes
"Haters gonna say it's fake," Justin Timberlake sang with an audible sneer to open his halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl LII, and it was easy to wonder who precisely he was complaining about.
Always eager to point to the imagined chip on his shoulder, Timberlake was singing the words to "Filthy," the first song on his iffy new album, "Man of the Woods," which came out Friday in strategic coordination with his appearance on music's most-watched stage.
But the lyric also seemed to apply to
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