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"Rock Your Body" is the third single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 from Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
's solo debut album Justified. The song features Vanessa Marquez
Vanessa Marquez (singer)

Vanessa Marquez is an United States pop music singer.She is best known being featured on singer Justin Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body", and background vocals on his song "I'm Lovin' It"....
. She was at that time to Star Trak Entertainment
Star Trak Entertainment

Star Trak Entertainment is a record label, specializing in hip hop music, founded by record producers Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams in 2002. Star Trak Entertainment operates as a subsidiary of Interscope Records and Universal Music Group....
. Released in 2003, The Neptunes
The Neptunes

The Neptunes is the name for the record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo who created the sound for some very successful hip hop music, R&B and Pop music artists in the late-90s and 2000s....
-produced single peaked at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
. "Rock Your Body" entered the Australian chart at #1 and stayed there for 1 week.






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"Rock Your Body" is the third single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 from Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake

Justin Randall Timberlake is an United Statesn pop music singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award....
's solo debut album Justified. The song features Vanessa Marquez
Vanessa Marquez (singer)

Vanessa Marquez is an United States pop music singer.She is best known being featured on singer Justin Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body", and background vocals on his song "I'm Lovin' It"....
. She was at that time to Star Trak Entertainment
Star Trak Entertainment

Star Trak Entertainment is a record label, specializing in hip hop music, founded by record producers Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams in 2002. Star Trak Entertainment operates as a subsidiary of Interscope Records and Universal Music Group....
. Released in 2003, The Neptunes
The Neptunes

The Neptunes is the name for the record production duo consisting of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo who created the sound for some very successful hip hop music, R&B and Pop music artists in the late-90s and 2000s....
-produced single peaked at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
. "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
UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official UK Charts Company on behalf of the British record industry. The chart week runs from Sunday to Saturday, with the chart being printed in Music Week magazine , ChartsPlus , and published online on various sites ....
.

Music video

The video features Timberlake dancing. The female lead dancer in the music video is Staci Flood
Staci Flood

Staci Beth Codorniz Lavine Costa de Souza Flood is an American singer, dancer and model best known for her lead dance roles in the music videos "Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias and "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake ....
 lip-syncing Marquez's parts of the song.

The video version of the song also features another beatbox breakdown
Break (music)

In popular music a break is an instrumental or percussion instrument section or interlude during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main section of the song or piece....
 in the middle of the song, much like the one performed in the *NSync single Pop
Pop (song)

"Pop" is the first single by *NSync from their album Celebrity . It was written by Wade Robson and Justin Timberlake and produced by Brian Transeau using his famous "stutter edit" sound....
.

Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy

While Timberlake was performing this song at the Super Bowl XXXVIII
Super Bowl XXXVIII

Super Bowl XXXVIII was an American football game played on February 1, 2004 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas to decide the National Football League champion following the 2003 NFL season....
 halftime show with R&B
Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B is a music genre of Western culture popular music. Although the acronym ?R&B? originates from its association with traditional rhythm and blues music, the term R&B is today most often used to define a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in the 1980s....
 singer Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Born in Gary, Indiana and raised in Encino, Los Angeles, California, she is the youngest child of the Jackson family of musicians....
, 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.

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
    Paul Oakenfold

    Paul Oakenfold is a record producer and a popular Trance music DJ....
     Radio Edit — 3:50
  • Paul Oakenfold
    Paul Oakenfold

    Paul Oakenfold is a record producer and a popular Trance music DJ....
     Mix — 5:41
  • Sander Kleinenberg
    Sander Kleinenberg

    Sander Kleinenberg is a Netherlands disc jockey and record producer. He founded and runs Little Mountain Recordings. Kleinenberg is well known for his use of digital video in concerts and for his "Everybody" brand of club nights and albums....
     Just In The Club/Vocal Mix — 9:36
  • Sander Kleinenberg
    Sander Kleinenberg

    Sander Kleinenberg is a Netherlands disc jockey and record producer. He founded and runs Little Mountain Recordings. Kleinenberg is well known for his use of digital video in concerts and for his "Everybody" brand of club nights and albums....
     Just In The Radio Mix — 3:33
  • Sander Kleinenberg
    Sander Kleinenberg

    Sander Kleinenberg is a Netherlands disc jockey and record producer. He founded and runs Little Mountain Recordings. Kleinenberg is well known for his use of digital video in concerts and for his "Everybody" brand of club nights and albums....
     Dub — 11:54
  • Video Version - 4:55


Trivia

  • This song was briefly featured in the ninth season South Park
    South Park

    South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
     episode "Marjorine
    Marjorine

    "Marjorine" is episode 909 of Comedy Central South Park. It aired on October 26, 2005....
    ".
  • The song is regularly covered live by the experimental rock
    Experimental rock

    Experimental rock or avant-garde rock is a type of music based on rock which experimental music with the basic elements of the genre, and/or which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique....
     band Tub Ring
    Tub Ring

    Tub Ring is a Chicago-based Rock music band....
    , and was recorded as a B-side to their 2007 album, The Great Filter
    The Great Filter

    The Great Filter is an implication of the failure to observe any extraterrestrial life, despite considerable effort . One possible explanation is that there is something, the Great Filter, which acts to reduce the great number of potential sites to the tiny number of intelligent species actually observed ....
    .
  • 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
    Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova 2

    Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA 2 is an arcade game in the Dance Dance Revolution series of music video games. It was produced by Konami and released through Betson Enterprises....
    .
  • Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra
    Shawn Lee (musician)

    Shawn Lee is an United States of America musician and multi-instrumentalist from Wichita, Kansas....
     performs an instrumental cover of this song on their album, Hits the Hits!.
  • This song was used in place of "Burly Brawl" in the MTV Movie Awards Reloaded
    MTV Movie Awards Reloaded

    MTV Movie Awards Reloaded or MTV: Reloaded, is a short parody film made in 2003 in film for the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. Half of the film is made by Tenth Planet Productions, and the other half is archival footage from the The Matrix Reloaded, which was released in theaters at that time....
     parody skit from 2003.