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" Cry Me a River " is a pop ballad with a length of 4 minutes and 48 seconds.

Its composition consists of clavinet, beatobox, guitars, synthesizers, " Arabian inspired riffs " and " Gregorian chants ".

According to Alex Needham of NME, Timberlake manages to mix the instrumentation " into something infinitely graceful and mysterious ".

Entertainment Weeklys David Browne called the song " a haunted, pained farewell ".

The single has been also described as a " gospel-meets-opera track " by Jane Stevenson of Jam !.

Billboard magazine critics called " Cry Me a River " a " bittersweet, funk-fortified " song, in which Timberlake's " familiar tenor belting is tempered with a palpably soulful falsetto and a convincingly aggressive rock-spiked baritone rasp.