Cry Me a River

Writer: 
Timberlake, Mosley & Storch
Year: 
2002
Voices: 
Women's four part
Ranges: 

Tenor: C4 - G5
Lead: G3 - C5
Bari: C4 - B flat4
Bass: F3 - F4

From Justin Timberlake's album Justified, this song makes an obvious reference to the 1950s ballad of the same title. Whilst it contains a similar emotional theme, the narrative that unfolds is quite different, as are the musical gestures of popular music 50 years on from the older song. The arrangement borrows a lot of the motifs from Timberlake's recording and weaves them into a texture that develops in complexity until the very end where it dissolves back into nothing.