Marsha Ambrosius Says Falsetto Outro on Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” Was Actually Her
Marsha Ambrosius has revealed she’s responsible for singing a specific part at the tail end of Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” that fans have loved for years.
On Thursday, Ambrosius sat for an interview on The TERRELL Show, where she explained that the person singing the falsetto and the outro was her and not Timberlake, as many initially believed. Ambrosius proved it by singing the “Cry me, cry me” ad-lib at the end of the song.
“Apparently, according to Twitter, that was, ‘Oh, did you hear that falsetto? He can absolutely come to the barbecue.’ But years later, they will find out that that part was actually me,” she said. “And this is not to shade the rest of the song … He’s from Memphis. He can still come.”
Ambrosius added, “But, you know, Twitter’s relentless. I was like, ‘Okay.’ ‘She did the barbecue part?’ I’m the barbecue sauce on the song.”
This isn’t the first time that Ambrosius made this revelation as she first dropped the news back in an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2014.For that talk, Ambrosius revealed that the song’s producer Timbalandfelt the song was missing something that she could “fine-tune.”
“I’m listening to what is this phenomenal song and at the time it didn’t have the hook all the way [or] the outro,” she said at the time. “I went into the booth, matched my vocal with Justin’s and did it a couple of times to get the feel, which is why barely anyone knows I’m on the song because we sound the same. I sang that ‘You don’t have to say, what you did’ [line], did the outro. I was playing when I did it, and Timbaland kept it. I knew it was a great song in the studio. I didn’t know it would be that song.”
In 2020, Ambrosius hinted at her involvement in the song when she shared a post of her singing the ad-libs along with the outro. The post blew fans away, and they wasted no time running to social media in shock over the revelation.
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