How Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Prince Differed From A Hologram

Purple Reign: Prince is projected on a giant screen as Justin Timberlake performs onstage during the Super Bowl LII Halftime Show. (Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)

Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance was ultimately a lesson in playing it safe — no animatronic lion like Katy Perry, no flying in from the roof of the stadium like Lady Gaga — likely a reaction to the wardrobe malfunction that eternally branded his first appearance on music’s biggest stage in 2004. A...