Justin Timberlake has posed for a selfie, paid tribute to music legend Prince and played it safe at a halftime Super Bowl performance, returning to the gig where he and Janet Jackson introduced "wardrobe malfunction" to the American lexicon.
Timberlake danced and sang his way through a roughly 12-minute set before a television audience estimated at over 100 million people, mixing a song from his new album and staples such as Can't Stop the Feeling that made him an intentionally known solo artist.
In an homage in Minneapolis to the state's native son Prince, who died in 2016, Timberlake played a white piano and sat beneath a projection of Prince on a screen to sing a cover of I would Die 4 U.
The only major piece of clothing that came off this time was Timberlake's jacket. In 2004, he infamously ripped off part of Janet Jackson's garment during their halftime show in Houston and briefly bared her breast.
The incident dubbed "Nipplegate" was blamed on a wardrobe malfunction. It also lit the Internet on fire with a flash of the bare breast becoming the most-searched image in Internet history at the time.
Earlier in pre-game entertainment, Pink sang The Star Spangled Banner, after taking what appeared to be gum from her mouth. It wasn't clear if she sang to a pre-recorded track. The performance had an orchestra accompaniment, but there wasn't one on the field.
