Justin Timberlake Addresses Years-Long Speculation ‘What Goes Around’ Song Is About Ex Britney Spears
Timberlake said the 2006 track was based on a friend’s breakup, not Britney Spears, as he addressed the rumor in an interview.
- On Thursday, November 5, Justin Timberlake told Complex's Re-Rank YouTube series that his 2006 hit "What Goes Around… Comes Around" was inspired by a friend's breakup, not ex-girlfriend Britney Spears.
- Fans long suspected the track served as a pseudo-sequel to the 2002 single "Cry Me a River," which was widely interpreted as a reaction to the couple's split that same year.
- Timberlake explained he wrote the song in "damn near 20 minutes" after a friend shared his breakup story, recalling the friend's advice: "Yeah, torch that b****. What goes around comes around."
- Ranking the song as "one or two" in his discography, Timberlake noted the track "hit on all cylinders," specifically praising the accompanying 10-minute music video.
- Following continued public interest in the pair's 1999–2002 romance, Spears addressed the relationship in her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, detailing her perspective on their time together.
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Justin Timberlake Addresses Years-Long Speculation ‘What Goes Around’ Song Is About Ex Britney Spears
Justin Timberlake is finally addressing years-long speculation that his 2006 hit song “What Goes Around… Comes Around” was written about his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears. “Maybe I should dispel a rumor at this point,” Timberlake, 45, teased during a Thursday, November 5, interview with Complex’s Re-Rank. Fans have long suspected that Timberlake wrote “What Goes Around… Comes Around” as a pseudo-sequel to 2002 single “Cry Me a River”, whic…
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