Timberlake Releases New Song "Follow My Lead" For Charity

Just weeks after saying he was taking a break from his own music to concentrate on working with other artists, Justin Timberlake returns today with a new song, "Follow My Lead." The song was recorded at the recent charity event Justin Timberlake and Friends: A Special Evening Benefiting the Shriners Hospitals for Children and is available now for purchase through MySpace Music. Helping out on the track is Esmée Denters, the first artist signed to Timberlake's own Tennman Records. All proceeds from the tune will benefit the Shriners Hospital. Purchasing the track will also give fans access to video of the live performance of "Follow," plus interviews from the October's Las Vegas benefit concert.

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Song Stories

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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