Justin Timberlake’s tribute to Prince got mixed reactions online, just there was one notable person who approved: Prince’s half-brother Omarr Baker.
Baker used his PRN Family Twitter account to give his mark of approval of the tribute, which included a video projection of an archived Prince performance.
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He quoted a tweet that called the performance “beautiful,” added a thumbs up and tagged Timberlake. He also shared the definition of a hologram to clear up the confusion surrounding the use of Prince’s likeness.
👍🏽@jtimberlake https://t.co/ldBaIZxPhP
— PRNFamily® (@PRNFamily) February 5, 2018
hol·o·gram 👇🏽
— PRNFamily® (@PRNFamily) February 5, 2018
ˈhäləˌɡram,ˈhōləˌɡram/Submit
noun
a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source.
a photograph of an interference pattern that, when suitably illuminated, produces a three-dimensional image.
Baker was one of the harshest critics when news leaked of a Prince hologram being used for the performance. He disapproved of the reports, which turned out to be wrong.
He later discovered that Timberlake never intended to use a hologram, just a projection of real Prince footage.
“There was never any plans for Justin’s Super Bowl LII halftime show to include a hologram of Prince,” Baker wrote.
— PRNFamily® (@PRNFamily) February 3, 2018
There was never any plans for Justin’s Super Bowl LII Halftime Show to include a hologram of Prince#PepsiHalftime#PrinceHologram #SBLII#FakeNews
— PRNFamily® (@PRNFamily) February 4, 2018
In the performance, Timberlake covered Prince‘s “I Would Die 4 U.” As Timberlake sat down at a piano to cover the song, archived footage of the late music icon was projected onto a large sheet. It was not done with CGI and animation as some fans feared.
Super Bowl LII is currently airing on NBC.
