“Rock Your Body” by Justin Timberlake

"Rock Your Body" was nearly a Michael Jackson song. The Neptunes, Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams, cooked it up and produced it with Jackson's Invincible in mind; he passed on it along with a batch of other tracks, and the leftovers went to Justin Timberlake for his debut album, Justified, out in 2002. Jive sent it out as the album's third single in 2003.

It's an uptempo disco strut with soul in its bones, owing plenty to Jackson and Stevie Wonder, with Star Trak signee Vanessa Marquez on backing vocals and Serban Ghenea on the mix. Critics picked it as a highlight. It went to number one in Australia, number two in the UK, following "Like I Love You" and "Cry Me a River" to that spot, and number five on the Hot 100. Francis Lawrence's video drops Timberlake and his dancers inside a glowing, multicolored cube.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.