{"id":676298,"date":"2026-11-06T02:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676298\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T02:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:02:12","slug":"justin-timberlake-reveals-best-song-of-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/676298\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake Reveals Best Song of His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJustin Timberlake<\/a> has countless hits on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, 39 Billboard Hot 100<\/a> entries as a solo artist and 13 more as a part of *NSYNC.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tJT sat down with Complex on Thursday (Nov. 5) to reminisce on his decorated catalog and rank the best songs of his career, and he ultimately went with \u201cWhat Goes Around\u2026\/\u2026 Comes Around,\u201d which topped the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> in March 2007 and landed on Timberlake\u2019s FutureSex\/LoveSounds album. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI would put this at No. 1 or No. 2,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the first song I wrote for FutureSex\/LoveSounds. Maybe I should dispel a rumor at this point, which has gone around forever, which it\u2019s not a personal story of mine; it\u2019s actually a personal story from a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tTimberlake continued: \u201cHe was going through it and telling me what had happened. I said, \u2018Do you mind if I write about this?\u2019 And I quote, my friend said, \u2018Yeah, torch that bi\u2014. What goes around comes around.\u2019 I was like, \u2018I have to go. Thank you, I have to go.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt has long been rumored<\/a> that \u201cWhat Goes Around\u2026\/\u2026Comes Around\u201d was inspired by his close friend Juan \u201cTrace\u201d Ayala\u2019s fractured relationship with The Girl Next Door actress Elisha Cuthbert.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI just went in and again, this song was written in damn near 20 minutes,\u201d JT added. \u201cIt was just flowing. The interlude that goes with it and then you put the video with it,\u201d he said, referencing the Scarlett Johansson-starring clip. \u201cWe shot a 10-minute video we shot for it. This just hit on all cylinders for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTimberlake gave \u201cWhat Goes Around\u201d the nod over \u201cMirrors,\u201d \u201cMy Love,\u201d \u201cSexyBack\u201d and \u201cCry Me a River\u201d to round out his personal top five. <\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in the interview, Timberlake opened up about how Ye<\/a> told him that \u201cSexyBack\u201d inspired him to make \u201cStronger,\u201d which saw West bring in Timbaland <\/a>to get the drums correct on his Graduation smash. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou could probably find it, Kanye came to one of the shows on the FutureSex\/LoveShow Tour. I had him come up and we did \u2018Stronger\u2019 together,\u201d JT recalled. \u201cHe showed up and was suited up like I was. It was a moment. I remember talking a lot about that song.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for the future, Timberlake revealed that he worked on a few songs with Don Toliver<\/a> after popping out at the \u201cCan\u2019t Say\u201d rapper\u2019s Miami tour stop in August. Toliver sampled JT\u2019s \u201cRock Your Body\u201d on his OCTANE standout \u201cBODY.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was like, \u2018Don\u2019t you have a studio on the road?\u2019 He was like, \u2018Yeah.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Cool, take a shower. Let\u2019s work.\u2019 We stayed at the arena for a couple hours. We did a few ideas,\u201d he teased. <\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Justin Timberlake\u2019s full appearance on Complex\u2018s Re-Rank below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake has countless hits on his r\u00e9sum\u00e9, 39 Billboard Hot 100 entries as a solo artist and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,821,61,60,278,633],"class_list":["post-676298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}