Rock Your Body

Infobox Single
Name = Rock Your Body


Artist = Justin Timberlake featuring Vanessa Marquez
from Album = Justified
B-side =
Released = March 2003 (U.S.)
Format = CD single, 12" single
Recorded =
Genre = Dance-pop, R&B
Length = 4:27 (Album Version)
4:55 (Video Edit)
Label = Jive
Writer = Justin Timberlake, Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo
Producer = The Neptunes
Chronology = Justin Timberlake singles
Last single = "Work It"
(2003)
This single = "Rock Your Body"
(2003)
Next single = "Señorita"
(2003)

"Rock Your Body" is the third single from Justin Timberlake's solo debut album "Justified". The song features Vanessa Marquez. She was at that time [http://www.losangelescainfowyre.com/laist_interview_vanessa_marquez_1752689.php signed] to Star Trak Entertainment [ [http://www.losangelescainfowyre.com/laist_interview_vanessa_marquez_1752689.php Los Angeles CA : LAist Interview: Vanessa Marquez ] ] .Released in 2003, The Neptunes-produced single peaked at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100."Rock Your body" entered the Australian chart at #1 and stayed there for 1 week. It also became his third #2 hit in the UK Singles Chart.

Music video

The video features Timberlake dancing. The female lead dancer in the music video is Staci Flood lip-syncing Marquez's parts of the song.

The video version of the song also features another beatbox breakdown in the middle of the song, much like the one performed in the *NSync single Pop.

Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy

While Timberlake was performing this song at the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show with R&B singer Janet Jackson, at the moment he sang the lyric, " [I'll] have you naked by the end of this song," he ripped off part of Jackson's costume, exposing her right breast on live television (see Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy).

Timberlake distanced himself from the controversy while Jackson faced much criticism. Timberlake later commented that "America's harsher on women... [and] unfairly harsh on ethnic people."

Remixes/official versions

*Album Version — 4:27
*Instrumental — 4:27
*Edit 1 — 3:28
*Edit 2 — 3:28
*Paul Oakenfold Radio Edit — 3:50
*Paul Oakenfold Mix — 5:41
*Sander Kleinenberg Just In The Club/Vocal Mix — 9:36
*Sander Kleinenberg Just In The Radio Mix — 3:33
*Sander Kleinenberg Dub — 11:54

Trivia

*This song was briefly featured in the ninth season "South Park" episode "Marjorine".
*The song is regularly covered live by the experimental rock band Tub Ring, and was recorded as a B-side to their 2007 album, "The Great Filter".
*Timberlake performed this song at the "Kids' Choice Awards".
*The song is a playable song in the North American version of Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Lee_%28musician%29|Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra] performs an instrumental cover of this song on their album, Hits The Hits!.

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