Canadians Can Finally Watch The New Britney Spears Doc. We Have Some Thoughts About Justin (And Journalists)
When journalists made it acceptable to ridicule Britney Spears, we also made it acceptable to do that to any young woman. Stacy Lee Kong Updated
February 25, 2021
Britney Spears with Diane Sawyer in 2008. A few years earlier, Sawyer had grilled the pop star about her breakup with Justin Timberlake. (Photo: Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic/Getty Images)
It’s November 2002, and Justin Timberlake is doing a radio interview with Hot 97’s Star and Buc Wild, the shock jocks who hosted the radio station’s morning show at the time. It’s a big deal for the former NSYNCer as a member of a boyband, he would never have scored coverage by the station, which had been an influential force in hip-hop and R&B since the early ’90s. But he had a Neptunes-produced solo album, dance moves appropriated from Michael Jackson and a new haircut that didn’t look like rame