Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake: story of a reconciliation in emoticons
The singers, who dated in the early 2000s, had not spoken for three decades until an Instagram message showed an unexpected rapprochement The singers, who dated in the early 2000s, had not spoken for five years until an Instagram message has shown an unexpected approach
The story of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake is the pop story of the first decade of the 2000s in all its heyday. A tale of love and spite, but also of marketing, power struggles, playing with the media and the music industry. The pair of artists, then emerging and brilliant stars on the world scene, went out together between 1999 and 2002 in a relationship that went around the world and that ended as was logical due to their age and exposure: fatal.
Both Spears and Timberlake overcame that, had other partners and children of their own, but almost two decades later they had shown no signs of rapprochement. Up to now. In an unprecedented and striking gesture for her followers, the singer has appeared dancing to a song of her ex-partner on her Instagram profile, a channel that she frequently uses to communicate with her followers. In fact, she has uploaded two videos, the second being an extension of the first with a longer dance.
In the pictures, Spears dances and hums to the song Filthy, released by Timberlake a couple of years ago. At the bottom of the image she reads: "This is my version of Snapchat, TikTok or whatever modern you use these days." "As you can see, I'm not dancing at all, I'm just very bored," she says humorously. And she ends with the most surprising message: “Postscript: I know we had one of the most notorious breakups in the world 20 years ago ... but this man is a genius! Great song, JT "
The singer's words have surprised her followers, who have left more than 18,000 messages in just 12 hours. "This is my favorite publication of all you have done", "Peace has come to pop", "Now we challenge Justin Timberlake to dance a song of yours", she reads her in some of those comments. "Blogs are already plotting her crazy stories ... keep having fun and being so cute," her sister Jamie Lynn Spears tells him.
The most surprising thing is that Timberlake himself has answered, effectively sealing the peace between the two. He only needed a handful of emoticons: a face crying with laughter and hands in the air in praise, .
A couple of lines first and a couple of small images later have functioned as a public pipe of peace for more than 15 years, now almost 20, without speaking. Their notorious breakup took place in 2002, after dating since 1999. A year earlier, Spears had opened for N’Sync, the group led by Timberlake. That had brought together these two boys who had already known each other as children as part of the Disney factory, where they had both been child stars.
The relationship between Timberlake and Spears became iconic for its naivety. Both of them, blond, sweet, smiling, wore matching clothes at awards ceremonies or bragged about being virgins. But the dream was broken in April 2002, when the US media realized that they had broken up due to an alleged infidelity of the singer with one of her dancers, an extreme that was never confirmed.
In any case, Timberlake knew better than anyone to amortize the relationship with the pop diva, who always reached heights of popularity and empathy much higher than he; she not in vain she was her and she is still called the princess of pop. Shortly after his breakup, he launched his solo career, for which he did not stop using the ghost of Spears in interviews and talks, saying that he was the one who gave the singer her first kiss or that, when they ended their relationship, he promised her that he would still be there for her and that he would never reveal the reasons for their breakup.
Timberlake did not, but he did reveal with ironic laughter and in an interview with the journalist Barbara Walters the best kept secret: that they had had sexual relations. Something that she had to go out to confirm shortly after. "I've only slept with one person in my entire life," she revealed to W magazine. "It was two years after I started my relationship with Justin, and I thought he was the one," she added. "But I was wrong. I never thought that she would go tell Barbara Walters to betray me. "
Since then, their paths have been parting. They launched a couple of pullitas: she wore a T-shirt that read "Let him"; he secretly dedicated the song Cry me a river, a hit song about a breakup after an infidelity. Three years later, in 2015, she would have her first child; barely a year later, to the second. Both were born from her complicated marriage to dancer Kevin Federline, who asked (and for a long time had) sole custody of the children. She went through a dark time, her lawyers abandoned her, she shaved her hair ... but she rose from the ashes, got control of her children, her estate and her career and returned, with more or less luck. , to the stages. She achieved a residency in Las Vegas, doing fashion campaigns, conquering the new generations. And now she has managed to make peace with who she will always be her eternal ex.
