Timberlake, along with his frequent collaborator and producer Timbaland, appear in the video fully clothed. The dancers are never in the same scenes as the men and appear to have been shot completely separately.

The nearly 7-minuteclip is simply shot on sound stages, with some post-production elements and a smoke machine as the only high tech elements to speak of. The stark setting suits the lyrics; watching the clip certainly does enforce a sense of tunnel vision while watching.

This treatment is what generated such controversy around Robin Thicke's uncensored video for "Blurred Lines," with some commentators remarking that the problem with the nudity was not the nudity itself but the fact that the men in the video were dressed � which suggests a position of power over the naked women.