Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake song)

"Cry Me a River"
Song

"Cry Me a River" is the second single from Justin Timberlake's solo début album Justified. Released in late 2002/early 2003, the single, which features guest vocals and production by Timbaland, deals with the process around his break-up with Britney Spears. The song won Timberlake a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2004. The song is supposedly a re-telling of his split with Spears, including accusations of her infidelity with lyrics like, "You don't have to say what you did/I already know, I found out from him/Now there's just no chance, for you and me, there'll never be/And don't it make you sad about it." While the music video, directed by Francis Lawrence, depicts him exacting revenge upon her: filming himself with another woman in her house; and watching as she returns.

It was covered by Lostprophets as a B-side to their 2004 single "Last Train Home". 50 Cent also collaborated with Timberlake on two remixes.[1] One remix uses The World from 50 Cent's underground album God's Plan. In 2006 New Found Glory covered it for an online performance on Yahoo Music & Pepsi Smash's "Cover Art" feature. The video can be found on YouTube.

The music video was also parodied in 2006 in Bob Sinclar's music video for Rock This Party.

During a performance with The Rolling Stones at Toronto Rocks, during the bands hit Miss You, Mick Jagger sang the songs chorus several times with Timberlake much to the crowds delight. The performance can be found here.

Jimmy Gnecco lead singer from the band OURS, cover the song at a performance at The Living Room - NYC, NY on 01/27/2007, which can be downloaded thanks to his allowance to record live performances, at www.killtheband.com courtesy of flyingmachine.

A feud was also started between producers Timbaland and Scott Storch on this song, of which Storch claimed he was unaccounted for producing the piano keys. Both have released diss songs at each other.

Remixes/official versions

• Album Version — 4:47