Justin Timberlake at the recent 70th Primetime Emmy Awards. Photo: Reuters
Justin Timberlake only needed a couple hours to write one of the biggest – and most personal – songs of his career. The pop star revealed he churned out Cry Me A River, the breakup ballad widely believed to be about Britney Spears, extremely quickly.
“I’ve been scorned. I’ve been pissed off. I wrote Cry Me A River in two hours. I didn’t plan on writing it,” Timberlake writes in his new book Hindsight: And All The Things I Can’t See In Front Of Me, according to People.
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