Justin Timberlake and Ant Clemons performed their new song “Better Days” as part of the special Celebrating America event honoring the inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Timberlake and Clemons sang at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis, Tennessee. After starting things in one of the Stax studios, they were joined on the street by a full band and a choir. Watch it go below.
At midnight tonight, a new version of the song with Clemons, Timberlake and Kirk Franklin will arrive on streaming services. Timberlake and Clemons previously performed “Better Days” at the virtual Rock the Runoff concert at Stacey Abrams in December.
“The fact that the Stax Museum and the Stax Academy of Music were chosen by Justin Timberlake, Ant Clemons and the Presidential Inaugural Committee to represent Memphis, Tennessee, at the 2021 presidential inauguration speaks not only to the power, magic and timelessness of soul music. “But it also sheds a bright light on the work we’ve been doing here at the Soulsville Foundation for more than 20 years,” said Richard Greenwald, president and CEO of the Soulsville Foundation. “We are grateful to our friend. our Justin Timberlake because he embraced our mission and really cares about the young people we work with every day. ”
Other opening day performers included Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Demi Lovato, John Legend and the newly reunited radicals.