Word Music Relationships

Word music relationships are an important aspects to songs where a composer is attempting to have the listeners have a certain feeling or thought from listening to the song. In Justin Timberlake’s song, the line “what goes around comes around,” shows this by having the notes he sings descend down in the tone and eventually at the end of the phrase, he reaches the original note he had hit at the end of it to start the phrase again. Another example is around the five minute mark of the song when he seems to be going on a rant to a girl and he starts listing off things that she did or could’ve done differently. All the while the music seems to be picking up as he keeps “going off”.