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Justin Timberlake has a quick cameo within the Lonely Island's "Jizz in My Pants" video — however opposite to in style perception, he truly didn't contribute to the music itself.
Throughout an episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, and Andy Samberg mirrored on their viral music "Jizz in My Pants," which premiered on Saturday Evening Reside in 2008. "Timberlake helped us a lot, I keep in mind individuals on-line being like, oh, 'Timberlake's singing with them on the finish,' as a result of they most likely additionally thought we couldn't have presumably made it sound [good]," Schaffer mentioned.
Taccone added, "I believe that's simply Andy. I'm not even positive I'm singing it."
Samberg confirmed, "You're not."
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Schaffer acknowledged, "It's simply Andy. However they only didn't suppose we had the know-how to make it sound this good — which is correct in a method as a result of [Justin's] the one which taught us."
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Timberlake's brief look within the "Jizz in My Pants" video nonetheless proved to be an enormous asset, despite the fact that he wasn't concerned with the music's recording.
"He did us an enormous stable," Samberg mentioned. "I keep in mind when this video aired, and we had been nonetheless like, 'I'm going to see each single factor that received written about us on the web. I'm going to take a look at the whole lot,' you understand? And all of the headlines had been Justin."
Schaffer confirmed that the "Cry Me a River" singer's cameo gave the phase "an enormous bump" in reputation. "It helped it tremendously," he mentioned.
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Timberlake beforehand collaborated with the Lonely Island on their 2006 hit "Dick in a Field," and later sang with the comedians on 2011's "Motherlover" and "3-Means (The Golden Rule)." He additionally performed a small half within the trio's 2016 film Popstar: By no means Cease By no means Stopping, and contributed vocals to the music "Unbelievable Ideas" on the movie's soundtrack.
"The truth that he did it simply to place his stamp on it, it's laborious to measure how enormous it’s," Schaffer mentioned of the NSYNC celebrity's "Jizz in My Pants" cameo.
Hearken to the complete episode of The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast about "Jizz in My Pants" above.
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