You don't need me to tell you JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE had a problematic day to cap a problematic week in what has been a problematic year. Suffice it to say it's possible more people were rooting against JT on Sunday than were rooting against TB12, and he did not let them down. Hashtag of the day: #JANETJACKSONAppreciationDay. Headline over CHRIS RICHARDS' brutal teardown in the WASHINGTON POST: "This is how JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE lost the SUPER BOWL." All this for a dizzyingly programmed and choreographed halftime show that was flawlessly executed—shoutout to the crew that had to build that stage in less than 9 minutes—but which carried less weight than a deflated football and which found Timberlake striking a few, um, curious poses. There was a duet with a not-quite-hologram of PRINCE, which seemed designed as much to prove Timberlake's bona fides as to honor Prince and MINNEAPOLIS. And a long snippet of his own "ROCK YOUR BODY" which served, intentionally or not, to dishonor Janet Jackson, who was famously standing next to him the last time he sang that one in the middle of a February football game. A selfish performance, and not just because he invited no guests. Also: boring. A pop singer's greatest crime... But should the internet, and the rest of the world, maybe ease up on Justin Timberlake? Perhaps. I'm sympathetic to UPROXX editor PHILIP COSORES' complaint about pop's "Takedown Culture." People can be mean. Collectives of people can be meaner. Mea culpa. But there's a reason Sunday was #JanetJacksonAppreciationDay and not #JustinTimberlakeAppreciationDay. Just sayin'... PINK though... You can count on less than one hand the number of major bands who have replaced a lead singer at the peak of their fame and upgraded themselves in the process. In fact, the TEMPTATIONS might be the only one. The replacement was DENNIS EDWARDS, who took over for DAVID RUFFIN in 1968 and had a lot to do with turning a great MOTOWN 1.0 band into a great Motown 2.0 band. Along with producer NORMAN WHITFIELD, Edwards was responsible for a good deal of the psychedelic soul of late '60s/early '70s masterpieces like "CLOUD NINE," "BALL OF CONFUSION" and "PAPA WAS A ROLLIN' STONE." Plus, he was the kind of dude who, when Ruffin bumrushed the stage a few times after he was fired to try to reclaim the lead microphone, would generously step aside and let Ruffin have at it. That's what cool looks like. And sounds like. RIP... RIP also LEON "NDUGU" CHANCLER, a jazz, funk and R&B drummer who played with MILES DAVIS, THELONIOUS MONK, JAMES BROWN and scores more, and whose obits will all note, not incidentally, that he laid down the beat for "BILLIE JEAN." Or, as QUESTLOVE puts it in a lovely tribute, he "literally gives MJ his dna"... Embattled RECORDING ACADEMY president NEIL PORTNOW on Friday announced an "independent task force" to "identify where we can do more to overcome the explicit barriers and unconscious biases that impede female advancement in the music community." Minutes later, a group of powerful women in the business called for his resignation... SPOTIFY adds writer and producer credits... BEST BUY subtracts CDs... The SPICE GIRLS are up to something.