Justin Timberlake On Michael Jackson
Speaking exclusively to MTV News JT pays tribute to his hero…
11:54, Thursday, 2 July 2009
Justin Timberlake has spoken to MTV News about his love of Michael Jackson- who died of a heart attack last week.
JT performed with the King of Pop when he was in N*Sync and his solo career has been massively influenced by him.
Justin told us: “I’m lucky enough to have memories actually physically with him on stage and off… he’s created so many cultural photos in people’s minds with his music. He really was and always will be the King of Pop.”
He continued: “No one presented a song on stage like Michael. There aren’t as many performances that are timeless I would say of the top ten of those performances, probably seven or eight of them go to Michael Jackson.”
“His music helped with segregation and not a lot of people can say that. Elvis did that. But Michael was the baddest.”
Justin was in the UK to promote his William Rast range of clothing and appeared at Selfridges in London for a fashion show.
Look out for more from this interview on MTV News soon.
More From MTV...
