who wrote the song "cry me a river"?
Timberlake and Scott Storch
Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake song)
Timberlake and Scott Storch wrote "Cry Me a River" with Timbaland,
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Cry Me a River (Justin Timberlake song) [SEP] Writing and production
Timberlake and Scott Storch wrote "Cry Me a River" with Timbaland, who produced the song. Storch found working with Timberlake easy because of the song's meaning. Reporters believed its lyrics were inspired by Timberlake's relationship with singer Britney Spears, which ended in 2002. Timberlake told MTV News, "I'm not going to specifically say if any song is about anybody. I will say writing a couple of songs on the record helped me deal with a couple of things. To me songs are songs. They can stem from things that completely happened to you personally or they can stem from ideas that you think could happen to you." In December 2011, Timberlake admitted that he had written "Cry Me a River" after an argument with Spears: "I was on a phone call that was not the most enjoyable phone call.