Rest easy: Justin Timberlake isn’t resurrecting Prince via hologram

He hasn’t even taken the stage yet but Justin Timberlake’s halftime performance is already embroiled in controversies. 

The most bizarre of these was the rumor, reported Saturday on TMZ, that he’d share the stage with a hologram of the late, great Prince. Reports of a planned holographic tribute to the pop star, who passed away in April 2016, were swiftly met with vehement backlash.

Much of that criticism coalesced around Prince’s long-time drummer and friend Sheila E, who tweeted a reminder that, in life, Prince expressed deep hatred for holographic revivals of dead artists.

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