Jealousy (Pet Shop Boys song)

"Jealousy" is a song originally written in 1982 by the Pet Shop Boys, recorded for their 1990 album Behaviour. In 1991, it was released in a slightly remixed form as a single, which appears on both Pet Shop Boys' greatest hits albums. It has also been covered by the British band Dubstar, and was sung by Robbie Williams at the 2006 Pet Shop Boys' BBC Radio 2 concert at the Mermaid Theatre, a recording of which was released on the Pet Shop Boys' live album Concrete.

Background

In the Further Listening 1990–1991 booklet (enclosed with the 2001 2-CD re-release of Behaviour), Neil Tennant states that "Jealousy" is the first proper song ever composed by the duo. Chris Lowe composed the melody at the piano in his parents' home and, as he felt it should be a ballad, asked Tennant to write an intense-sounding lyric. Tennant complied by writing a lyric about the simplest form of jealousy: infidelity suspicions aroused by someone's indifferent or disrespectful attitudes towards another person's feelings (such as making his/her partner wait all night for a phone call which never comes). The song was then left off four albums because the duo were waiting for legendary film composer Ennio Morricone to agree to score the orchestral arrangement for the song. Morricone's answer never came, and Harold Faltermeyer ended up doing the arrangement for the song's release on Behaviour.

Versions

The album version, coming at the end of Behaviour, closed off the album with a sampler-based orchestral outro. The single version is slightly remixed, and uses a real orchestra instead during the outro. The extended version of the single version lengthens the outro while adding an orchestral intro as well; in addition, Neil Tennant recites a quote from William Shakespeare's Othello over both sequences:

Not poppy, nor mandragora,

Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.

— Iago, Othello (Act III, Scene III)

The extended version is also the arrangement performed live with Robbie Williams.

Dubstar's version, recorded for a covers album produced for EMI's centennial anniversary, is more sparsely arranged and comes to a full stop, with no additional instrumentation, with the last word of the lyrics.

"Jealousy" is also one of the songs covered on Goes Petshopping, the debut album by Pet Shop Boys tribute band West End Girls.

B-side

"Losing My Mind", taken from the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies, was based on a demo originally recorded as a proposal for the Liza Minnelli album Results. Its release here follows the releases of Minnelli's version on both Results and as the lead single from the album. As with the A-side, "Losing My Mind" was released in an extended mix (the "Disco mix") on the 12-inch single. The Disco Mix of "Losing My Mind" also appears on the 2001 re-release of Introspective, which implies it was recorded between 1988 and 1989.

Track listing

7": Parlophone / R 6283 (UK)

"Jealousy" (7" version) – 4:16
"Losing My Mind" (7" version) – 4:34

CD: Parlophone / CD R 6283 (UK)

"Jealousy" (7" version) – 4:16
"Losing My Mind" (Disco Mix) – 6:07
"Jealousy" (Extended Mix) – 7:54

CD: Parlophone / CDRS 6283 (UK)

"Jealousy" (Extended Mix) – 7:54
"This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave" (Extended Mix) – 7:24
"So hard" (Eclipse Mix) – 4:02

Limited edition in digipak

12": Parlophone / 12 R 6283 (UK)

"Jealousy" (Extended Mix) – 7:54
"Losing My Mind" (Disco Mix) – 6:08

Chart performance

Chart (1991)	Peak position
Australian Singles Chart^[1]	147
Finnish Singles Chart^[2]	4
German Singles Chart^[3]	20
Irish Singles Chart^[4]	8
Polish Singles Chart	36
Spanish Singles Chart^[5]	19
Swiss Singles Chart^[6]	14
UK Singles Chart^[7]	12

References

↑ "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry (submitted to charts.mail@aria.com.au), received 2015-07-15". imgur.com. Retrieved 2015-08-02.
↑ Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin - levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5.
↑ "charts.de". charts.de. 2006-11-14. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ Jaclyn Ward. "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.
↑ Steffen Hung. "Pet Shop Boys - Jealousy". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2012-06-23.
↑ "Pet Shop Boys | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". officialcharts.com. Retrieved 2016-11-09.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Pet Shop Boys

Chris Lowe Neil Tennant

Studio albums	Please Actually Introspective Behaviour Very Bilingual Nightlife Release Fundamental Yes Elysium Electric Super

Compilation albums	Discography: The Complete Singles Collection Alternative Essential PopArt: The Hits Story: 25 Years of Hits Party Ultimate Format

Remix albums	Disco Disco 2 Disco 3 Disco 4

Live albums	Concrete Pandemonium

Extended plays	Christmas

Soundtracks and scores	It Couldn't Happen Here Closer to Heaven Battleship Potemkin The Most Incredible Thing

Other songs	"King's Cross" "The Loving Kind" "The Night I Fell in Love" "I'm Not Scared" "In Private" "Nothing Has Been Proved" "So Sorry, I Said" "Don't Drop Bombs" "Euroboy"

Film, stage and television	It Couldn't Happen Here Closer to Heaven Pet Shop Boys: A Life In Pop The Most Incredible Thing

Notable tours and concerts	MCMLXXXIX Performance Discovery Somewhere Nightlife Release Fundamental Pandemonium Progress (as special guests) Electric Inner Sanctum

Related articles	Discography x2 Reputation Results Electronic Back to Mine: Pet Shop Boys West End Girls

Book

Pet Shop Boys singles

Please (1984–1986)	"West End Girls" "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" "Love Comes Quickly" "Suburbia"

Disco (1986)	"Paninaro"

Actually (1987–1988)	"It's a Sin" "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" "Rent" "Heart"

Introspective (1988–1989)	"Always on My Mind" "Domino Dancing" "Left to My Own Devices" "It's Alright"

Behaviour (1990–1991)	"So Hard" "Being Boring" "How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously?"/"Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes off You)" "Jealousy"

Discography (1991)	"DJ Culture" "Was It Worth It?"

Very (1993–1994)	"Can You Forgive Her?" "Go West" "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing" "Liberation" "Yesterday, When I Was Mad"

Alternative (1995)	"Paninaro '95"

Bilingual (1996–1997)	"Before" "Se a vida é (That's the Way Life Is)"/"To Step Aside" "Single-Bilingual" "A Red Letter Day"

Nightlife (1999–2000)	"I Don't Know What You Want But I Can't Give It Any More" "New York City Boy" "You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk"

Release (2002–2003)	"Home and Dry" "I Get Along" "London"

PopArt (2003–2004)	"Miracles" "Flamboyant"

Fundamental (2006)	"I'm with Stupid" "Minimal" "Numb"

Disco 4 (2007)	"Integral"

Yes (2009)	"Love etc." "Did You See Me Coming?" "Beautiful People"

Ultimate (2010)	"Together"

Elysium (2012)	"Winner" "Leaving" "Memory of the Future"

Electric (2013-14)	"Axis" "Vocal" "Love Is a Bourgeois Construct" "Thursday" "Fluorescent"

Super (2016)	"The Pop Kids" "Twenty-something" "Inner Sanctum" "Say it to me"

Non-album singles	"One More Chance" "Absolutely Fabulous" "Hallo Spaceboy" "Somewhere" "Break 4 Love" "She's Madonna" "Love Life"

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