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Timbaland is providing up an apology for a remark he made about Britney Spears in reference to artist and collaborate Justin Timberlake just lately.
The hit producer Timbaland was sitting down for an interview with fellow beatmaker ninth Marvel on the Kennedy Heart in Washington D.C. (Oct. 29.) An viewers member requested Timbaland about Britney Spears’ mentioning of former boyfriend Justin Timberlake in her just lately launched memoir, The Lady in Me. “She’s going loopy, proper?” Timbaland started with amusing, earlier than saying: “I needed to name and say, ‘JT, man, you gotta put a muzzle on that woman.’”
The viewers’s response was crammed with laughter and a few murmurs as Timbaland continued, stating that Spears’ intent in writing the memoir detailing her life below conservatorship and the quite a few moments of the trauma she endured was to “go viral.”
“We reside in an age of social media and […] everyone wanna go viral,” he mentioned. “I get it ’trigger that’s the way in which you earn money, go viral – I gotta do one thing that will get individuals’s consideration.”
The feedback would quickly turn out to be viral, with many chastising Timbaland for being crass. It prompted the producer to apologize Tuesday (Nov. 7), throughout one in every of his common TikTok Dwell classes. “I apologize to the Britney followers and her,” he mentioned as he learn a remark discussing the remarks. “Sure, ‘you already know about respecting ladies?’ Hell yeah.”
In The Lady in Me, Spears wrote extensively about her three-year relationship with Timberlake, revealing that she had an abortion. “If it had been left as much as me alone, I by no means would have executed it. And but Justin was so positive that he didn’t need to be a father,” Spears penned. The pop star additionally spoke in regards to the “Cry Me A River” music video, which she felt made her seem like a “harlot who’d damaged the center of America’s golden boy,” after their 2002 breakup. She even famous how the lady within the video bore a resemblance to her.