In the fourth episode of The Idol, the soundtrack is still the only thing that is saved. And we’ll have a Weeknd cover of John Lennon‘s classic: Jealous Guy. To think that Tedros might be jealous of Jocelyn, after what we saw in the third episode, gives me the creeps. How do we know? The soundtrack is always anticipated and there is the singer’s version modernizing the song that Lennon wrote for Yoko Ono.

Jealous Guy was one of the hits on the Imagine album, from 1971, which became a hit not with the original, but with a version by Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, ten years later, in 1981. It almost entered the Beatles‘ discography – more specifically on the White Album – under another name, Child of Nature. Written in 1968, inspired by a talk by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi during a spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, India, it completely changed the message a few years later, when it was rewritten as an embarrassed confession of feelings of inadequacy that ended up hurting the person you loved.

The first version of Jealous Guy is from 1968 (recorded at George Harrison’s house) The second, the following year, and the third recording was made by the band. But it was on Lennon’s solo album that she found her ultimate self. The year after Lennon’s death, Bryan Ferry covered what is still the most popular version of the song.

The fact that will have parallel in The Idol is that John Lennon assumes here the insecurity he felt about Yoko Ono, which years later it was explained (by her) that it was not a sexual issue, but a cultural one. See how it goes with Tedros!

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