Justin Timberlake Gossip

As you’ve probably heard, Aretha Franklin died today at her home in Detroit. Kathleen has been in writing lockdown for an event the last few days and I’ve asked her if she’d like to write about Aretha and her significance for tomorrow. We are sorry we aren’t able to get this up immediately but I know Kathleen would want to take her time with a piece like that and give Ms Franklin the care and consideration she deserves and has earned. Full Story

It was announced on Friday that Justin Timberlake is coming out with a book. What’s it about? WHAT DO YOU THINK IT’S ABOUT? His favourite topic: himself. If there’s anyone who can reliably be a cliché, it’s Justin Timberlake. Which is why the title of the book is as derivative as you’d expect: Hindsight & All The Things I Can’t See In Front Of Me. Full Story

Justin Timberlake is producing a new game show called Spin the Wheel, premiering on Fox this upcoming season and offering, potentially, the biggest prize in television history: $20 million. Justin came up with the idea with Andrew Glassman and there’s been a bidding war among networks. Per THR Full Story

Drake hosted an album release party in London last night to celebrate the success of Scorpion. You’ve probably heard by now that Scorpion is a big ass deal, breaking sales and streaming records and generating memes. Full Story

Justin Timberlake released a new song this week and, as Kathleen wrote a few days ago, it may be because nobody gives a sh-t about Man of the Woods. So he’s trying to come for the title of Song of the Summer, only this song is trash. Full Story

It’s a little late for submissions for Song of the Summer but Justin Timberlake decided to shoot his shot any way. His new song “SoulMate” (why is it spelled like this, haven’t we suffered enough?) dropped yesterday for no other reason than that JT clearly thinks this song is good enough to rival Cardi B’s “I Like It” or The Carters’ “Apesh-t,” the only two acceptable choices for Song of the Summer. Full Story

Earlier this month, Billboard posted an article called “In Defense of JC Chasez” *NSYNC's Underappreciated Boy Band Frontman.”  In January of last year, a Buzzfeed post argued that “JC was actually the best member of *NSYNC. Full Story

Kanye West hasn’t been on Instagram since May 2017. Yesterday was Valentine’s Day though. And Valentine’s Day is the anniversary of the release of The Life Of Pablo (2016) so Kanye returned to IG with a message to wish his wife a Happy Valentine’s Day and then… SPENT THE NEXT 7 HOURS posting pictures of famous and not-that-famous Hollywood couples. Full Story

Last week on The Social, after the Super Bowl, I said that Justin Timberlake was the perfect halftime performer for the NFL of 2018. The NFL is a league in decline. And Justin Timberlake is an artist in decline. Full Story

Back in October when it was finally confirmed, after weeks of speculation, that Justin Timberlake would headline the Super Bowl halftime show, I wrote that it wasn’t all bad Full Story