Did Justin Timberlake Just Shade Britney Spears? Fans Sure Think So

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2021 apology to all for show? Apparently, he's done saying sorry.On January 31, Timberlake introduced his 2002 breakup diss track “Cry Me a River” with a message to fans. "I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely fucking nobody,” he told the crowd at Irving Plaza in New York City, per shared on a fan's Instagram story.Spears and Timberlake in 1992 and began dating in 1999, when they were both 18 years old.

They split in 2002, with Timberlake implying that Spears cheated on him by releasing “Cry Me a River” that same year. He continued to use his music to dunk on Spears , though this behavior sparked a wave of backlash with the release of the documentary in 2021.He ended up apologizing to Spears nearly 20 years after their breakup in a since-deleted Instagram post, writing, “I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right."So, were his recent words really meant for Spears?

Well, song choice aside, this alleged jab comes after a wave of Spears fans pushed his new single, “Selfish,” of an iTunes chart using her 13-year-old song of the same name.

If Timberlake didn't find this as funny as Stan Twitter, neither did Britney Spears.Britney Spears fans don't mess around.By At the end of January, Spears took it upon herself to promote her ex-boyfriend's single and even seemed to apologize to Timberlake for bringing up in her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me. “I wanna apologize for some of the things I wrote about in my book," Spears wrote on Instagram, per .