Beyoncé almost didn't let Saturday Night Live put a hoop on the legendary "Single Girls" sketch.

"She was very well mannered about it, however she was very hesitant, and after I say hesitant, I imply like, she was not having it," Justin Timberlake shared of the Grammy-winner's preliminary response to the pitch, within the documentary Girls & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music, which NBC re-aired on Saturday.

The SNL Five-Timers Club member stated it began when he bought a textual content message fromcast member Andy Samberg, with whom he'd beforehand made "Dick in a Field," telling him the concept behind a comedic recreation of Beyoncé's basic black-and-white music video for her pop hit, "Single Girls (Put a Ring on It)."

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"He stated, 'Bobby Moynihan has this nice thought for a sketch about you, me, and him being Beyoncé's background dancers for single women that by no means made the minimize," Timberlake recalled, saying the Lonely Island member then knowledgeable him Queen Bey was going to be the week's musical visitor.

"I used to be like, 'Full leotard?' and he's like, 'Yeah.' And I used to be like, oh, that is too humorous. Like, we’ve to do that."

The NSYNC vocalist popped over to Studio 8H for the Nov. 15, 2008, episode hosted by Paul Rudd to attempt to assist persuade his "Till the Finish of Time" collaborator of the gold they’d at their fingertips.

"I'm like, does she know the way humorous that is gonna be? How beloved this complete second will probably be?" Timberlake remembered. "So I stated, 'Carry me the leotard.'"

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The "Cry Me a River" crooner stated he placed on the black leotard, pantyhose, and excessive heels with a gown overlaying the ensemble and headed to Beyoncé's dressing room. "I knocked on her door. I walked in and I threw the gown down, and I put my arms on my hips."

In line with Timberlake, his transfer labored on the Cowboy Carter famous person. "She was like, 'No, you didn't,'" he stated of her laughing at his getup.

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Ultimately, it turned out to all be value it, because the "Single Girls" parody — that includes Rudd as a music video director introducing the singer to her backup dancers, performed by Timberlake, Samberg, and Moynihan clad in leotards and heels as they do the strikes — grew to become an prompt basic.

Even former President Barack Obama boasted about doing the strikes from the SNL video. "I’m not like Justin, I didn’t placed on the outfit," Obama advised Beyoncé backstage at his 2009 inauguration. "I didn’t need my women considering that I couldn’t, y’know — I bought a bit of one thing."

For her second musical act in the course of the season 34 episode, Beyoncé placed on her personal knockout efficiency of the tune and iconic dance. This time alongside her precise backup dancers.

Girls & Gents… 50 Years of SNL Music, co-directed by Questlove and Oz Rodriguez, is streaming now on Peacock.

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