Jealousy

Album: Behaviour (1990)
Charted: 12
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is written from the perspective of a jealous man who stays up all night, tormented, wondering where his lover is and why he's being ignored. Typical of a Pet Shop Boys song, the gender is not specified. Frontman Neil Tennant, who wrote the lyric, came out as gay in 1994.
  • "Jealousy" is the first song the Pet Shop Boys duo of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe wrote together. They composed it in 1982, a year after they met, but didn't record it until 1990, when they included it on their fourth album, Behaviour. Synthesizer wizard Harold Faltermeyer produced the album with the group.
  • The video is set in an elegant restaurant where a girl and a guy (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - Malko from Game of Thrones, Mr. Eko from Lost) leave their partners, meet in the bathroom, and get it on. When they return, the jilted guy goes into a jealous rage and starts a slow-motion brawl.

    It was directed by Eric Watson, who also did the Pet Shop Boys videos for "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" and "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)."

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