“Cry Me a River” is a song by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for his debut solo album, Justified. It was written by Timberlake and Scott Storch with producer Timbaland. The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Pop Songs charts and charted in the top ten in other countries. It won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2004 ceremony.
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“Cry Me a River” is a song by American singer-songwriter Justin Timberlake for his debut solo album, Justified. It was written by Timberlake and Scott Storch with producer Timbaland. The song is an R&B song about a brokenhearted man who moves on from his last girlfriend, who had cheated on him. It won the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance at the 2004 ceremony. Timberlake performed the song on his four major concert tours: The Justified World Tour, Justified and Stripped Tour, FutureSexLoveShow, and The 2020 Experience World Tour. The single peaked at number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Pop Songs charts and charted in the top ten in other countries. It has been covered by various artists, including Kelly Clarkson and Taylor Swift. The video for the song was directed by Francis Lawrence and won the awards for Best male video and Best Pop Video at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. In the controversial video, Timberlake’s character invades the home of his ex-lover and films himself having sexual activity with another woman. “Like I Love You” was released as a single in the US on February 18, 2003, and two additional remixes of the song were released on February 3 and February 6 in the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively. A CD version of its instrumental version was released on its 12-inch single, which included Johnny Fiasco’s remix of the songs.
“Cry Me A River” has been on several lists of the best songs of the year and the decade, while Rolling Stone included it on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at 484. It is one of the few songs on Justified to have been certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association and the British Phonographic Industry. It also won the Best Song of the Year award at the Grammy Awards in 2004 and the Best Vocal Duo or Group Award at the Grammys in 2005. The track was recorded at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles by Senator Jimmy D, while Carlos \”Storm\” Martinez served as the assistant engineer. Timbal and mixed the song at Manhattan Center Studios in New York City. “I can’t believe she did that to me’ and he was like, ‘You were my sun, you were my earth,” Timberlake said of Britney Spears in an interview with MTV News in December 2011. “To me songs are songs. They can stem from things that completely happened to you personally or they canstem from ideas that you think could happen to you,” he said of Spears. “The song is about a man who wants to move on from a relationship that has ended. It’s not about anybody else,” he told MTV News. “It’s about a guy who just wants to get his life back on track,” he added. “You can’t get better than that,” TimbalAnd said. “If you want to get better, you’ve got to go out there and do it.”
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