Despite how it was received, he had good intentions.

Justin Timberlake appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon after his Super Bowl performance last night, and the singer opened up about his decision to pay tribute to Prince during his halftime show.

"It’s a moment for me, if I’m being quite honest, because [Prince has] always been the pinnacle of musicianship for me. When we decided that the serendipity and synergy that we would be in Minneapolis and that, you know, he’s such a special thing here, aside from what he is all over the world, I just felt like I wanted to do something for this city and something for him that would be the ultimate homage to what I consider the G.O.A.T. [Greatest of All Time] of musicians," he told the late night host.

“We got the actual vocal stems from ‘I Would Die 4 U,’ the actual recordings, and then we got uncut footage from his performance of it in Purple Rain. Somehow, some way, by the grace of probably Prince looking down on us, it synced up. It was like this crazy serendipitous moment. I just wanted to use that opportunity to do something special for this city, but most of all, for my favorite musician of all time," he added.

The late "Purple Rain" crooner said in a 1998 interview that becoming a hologram would be “the most demonic thing imaginable," but something tells us he would have approved of this moment.

Poor JT is getting skewered in the reviews, but we thought the Prince sequence was the one bright spot!