Maybe it’s just a coincidence, and Justin Bieber had been watching MTV Hits in his hotel room when Justin Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” came on and he said to his long-haired guitarist in the next room “You know, good song, we should cover that sometime.” After all, it is one of the pop classics of the ’00s, and Timberlake does share a first name (and a whole lot of other characteristics of note) with The Bieb. If Justin had played the song at a live date two weeks ago, we probably would have thought nothing of it—and in fact, he’d already covered it once before a couple years back.




