Jealous (Nina Girado song)
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"Jealous" is a song by Filipino
Filipino people
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 singer Nina
Nina Girado
Marifil Niña Girado , better known by her stage name Nina, is a Filipino pop/R&B singer, occasional songwriter, record producer, TV and radio personality. She made her recording debut in 2002 after signing a recording contract with Warner Music Philippines...

 from her 2002 debut studio album
Studio album
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 Heaven
Heaven (Nina Girado album)
Heaven is the debut studio album by Filipino singer Nina, released in the Philippines on August 20, 2002 by Warner Music. The album is heavily influenced by jazzy lounge pop-R&B and composed of songs that are reminiscent to the sound of international records at that time. Under the direction of...

. It was released as the album's second commercial single in February 2003 by Warner Music Philippines
Warner Music Group
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. The song was written by international songwriters Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....

 and Brett Laurence, and it was produced by Ferdie Marquez. The song tells a story of a girl who is in love with her ex-boyfriend that has a new girlfriend. She narrates how jealous she is with the girl, and how lucky the girl is. She also promises to wait for the boy, the moment the girl leaves him.

Upon release, the song received generally positive response from fans and critics alike, becoming a commercial success and earning Nina seven awards—the most number of awards received by a Heaven song. These notable awards include an Awit Award for Favorite New Female Artist
Awit Awards
The Awit Awards is the longest-running award-giving body of the Philippines that gives recognition to Filipino musical talents, performing artists and producers it was Philippines equivalent to Grammy Awards, organized by the Philippine Association Of The Record Industry .-Objectives and Winner...

, MTV Pilipinas for Favorite New Artist in a Video
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite New Artist in a Video
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Favorite New Artist in a Video....

, Candy Rap Award for Favorite Female Artist
Candy (magazine)
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 and Teens Voice Award for Favorite Female Artist. It also became Nina's first hit as a breakthrough artist, topping the Philippine Singles Chart for weeks. On August 20, 2002, the song was made available on digital download
Music download
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 through iTunes
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 and Amazon.com
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 MP3 Download on January 23, 2007.

The single was accompanied by a music video that is entirely different from the previous single "Heaven
Heaven (Nina Girado song)
"Heaven" is a song by Filipino singer Nina from her 2002 debut album of the same name. It was released as the album's first commercial single, and her first single as an artist, in August 2002 along with the album by Warner Music Philippines. The song was written by Brett Laurence and Gary Haase,...

", where Nina portrays a girl who ended her relationship with a guy. She later finds out that her ex-boyfriend now has a new girl, and she gets jealous of the girl, admitting that she is still in love with the boy. Throughout the video, she is seen collecting her pictures with her ex-boyfriend and throwing them from the rooftop of a building, suggesting that she lets go of the memories.

Background

At seventeen, Nina became a vocalist of the XS, The Big Thing, MYMP
MYMP
M.Y.M.P. is an acoustic band act from the Philippines, which consists of five members. Their career started when Raymond Ryan, a station manager of iFm watched one of their gigs, and met up with a producer to produce their 2003 debut album, Soulful Acoustic, which has since been certified...

, Silk and lastly, the Essence. After college, she recorded an amateur demo CD
Demo (music)
A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

 with the help of a friend. It was composed of three tracks, including the Steve Perry
Steve Perry (musician)
Stephen Ray "Steve" Perry is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Journey from 1977–1987 and 1995–1998. Perry had a successful solo career throughout the late 1980s and early '90s.Perry's voice has garnered acclaim from musical peers and music...

 song "Foolish Heart
Foolish Heart (song)
"Foolish Heart" is a rock song written by Steve Perry, formerly of the band Journey and Randy Goodrum, and was performed by Perry from his first solo album, Street Talk...

", "Breathe Again
Breathe Again
"Breathe Again" is a song by American R&B singer Toni Braxton from her self-titled debut album, Toni Braxton . Written by Babyface and produced by L. A. Reid, Babyface, and Daryl Simmons, the ballad was released as the album's second single, garnering heavy airplay during late 1993 and early 1994,...

" and "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
"Against All Odds " is a song by British singer Phil Collins recorded for soundtrack to the 1984 film of the same name. It is a power ballad in which its protagonist implores an ex-lover to "take a look at me now", knowing that reconciliation is "against all odds" while considering it worth trying...

", recorded in a home studio with only a guitar for accompaniment. After listening to the demos, Warner Music managing director at that time, Ricky Ilacad wanted to sign her up even without seeing or hearing her in person. Two months after her father died of heart attack in the United States, she signed her first contract with Warner Music. Under the direction of Warner managing head Ilacad, foreign songwriters and arrangers from the United States
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 and Korea
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, including Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken
Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....

 and Guy Roche
Guy Roche
Guy Roche is a record producer and songwriter who is best known for the hit singles he has co-written/co-produced for Christina Aguilera, which include but are not limited to "What a Girl Wants", "I Turn to You", and "Come on Over Baby . He also co-wrote Brandy's Never Say Never single "Almost...

, were hired for the production of the album. The album is heavily influenced by jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

y lounge
Lounge music
Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It is a type of mood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, et cetera — other than where they are listening to it...

 pop
Pop music
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-R&B
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 and composed of songs that are reminiscent to the sound of international records at that time.

Composition

"Jealous" is a slow tempo pop-R&B ballad, that is heavily influenced by America
United States
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n Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 sound. It is constructed on a format that is based on the what's so-called "Filipino love song syndrome". The song is considered to have popularized Acoustic music
Acoustic music
Acoustic music comprises music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means...

 in the Philippines during its release, although it is not purely acoustic and contains a fusion of piano
Piano
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, percussions and drum
Drum
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s in its arrangement. The song was written by foreign songwriters Peiken and Brett Laurence, and was produced by Ferdie Marquez. It talks about a girl who broke up with her lover and wants to get back with him after seeing the guy together with his new flame. She expresses her feelings towards her ex-lover, within the line "La la, la la, la la... She's a very, very lucky girl". It is the first song on Heaven to have a lyrical story that relates to a "love triangle".

Commercial performance

Due to the under-performance of the first single, "Heaven
Heaven (Nina Girado song)
"Heaven" is a song by Filipino singer Nina from her 2002 debut album of the same name. It was released as the album's first commercial single, and her first single as an artist, in August 2002 along with the album by Warner Music Philippines. The song was written by Brett Laurence and Gary Haase,...

", it was critical whether the next single would perform as well or even better than the first. When "Jealous" was released in February 2003, the song managed to pick up substantial airplay, allowing it to enter the charts immediately, which was not the case for the first two releases (including the promo single "2nd Floor") by Nina. A month later, the song reached the Top 3, as the song and its music video became more requested by fans and listeners. Not too long after, it was able to reach number one on the Philippine Singles Chart, peaking at the top spot for three weeks. It is considered to be Nina's breakthrough single to the Philippine music scene, as she became a radio and TV favorite after its release.

Music video

The music video for "Jealous" was directed by Avid Liongoren. Unlike the previous video, "Heaven
Heaven (Nina Girado song)
"Heaven" is a song by Filipino singer Nina from her 2002 debut album of the same name. It was released as the album's first commercial single, and her first single as an artist, in August 2002 along with the album by Warner Music Philippines. The song was written by Brett Laurence and Gary Haase,...

", Nina portrays a woman that has lost her lover (played by Cedrick Carreon), feeling "jealous of the one" (a woman played by Angel Jacob) who is with her former love. Liongoren describes it to be one of his earliest works. He gave credits to the video's cinematographer JA Tadena for a very straightforward interpretation and for nice lens shots.

A slightly different music video for the Acoustic version was later solicited on MYX
Myx
myx or MYX is the music channel of ABS-CBN brand and the #1 music channel in the Philippines. It is also a part of Studio 23's program line-up. In 2007, MYX North America was launched in the United States....

. The video is also the same with the original, except that it is in black and white.

Synopsis

The video starts off with Nina on her bed, collecting her photos with her ex-boyfriend and looking at each one of them. She then sings to the first stanza of the song, while sitting on a couch in her apartment and still reviewing the pictures. A scene where photographs with her former lover appears, where she is seen holding a white furry cat. Scenes of Nina looking at her ex-boyfriend and his new flame are shown. She is then shown singing on the rooftop of a building, (which is probably her apartment's building). She later puts the photographs inside her bag and dresses up in front of a mirror, while tears roll down her eyes. Scenes of how she and her ex-flame broke up suddenly appear, as she heads to the rooftop, and finally tries to let go of the memories by throwing all the pictures she and her ex-boyfriend are in together.

Reception

At the time of its release, "Jealous" was the first and only local music video that topped the Philippine music video channels, namely MYX
Myx
myx or MYX is the music channel of ABS-CBN brand and the #1 music channel in the Philippines. It is also a part of Studio 23's program line-up. In 2007, MYX North America was launched in the United States....

 and MTV Philippines
MTV Philippines
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. On the 2003 MTV Pilipinas Music Awards
MTV Pilipinas Music Awards
MTV Pilipinas Music Awards is the Philippines' biggest annual music video awards event.-Award categories:*Video of the Year*Favorite Male Video*Favorite Female Video*Favorite New Artist in a Video*Favorite Group Video*Favorite Pop Video...

, the video earned three nominations—all of which were major categories (Favorite Female Video
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite Female Video
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Favorite Female Video....

, Favorite New Artist in a Video
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite New Artist in a Video
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Favorite New Artist in a Video....

 and Favorite Song
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite Song
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Best Song or Favorite Song, depending on what year the award was given. The last of this award was given out in 2005....

). She won the Favorite New Artist in a Video award.

Awards and accolades

"Jealous" became the most award single and song on Heaven, earning Nina seven awards from different major organizations. On the 2003 Awit Awards
Awit Awards
The Awit Awards is the longest-running award-giving body of the Philippines that gives recognition to Filipino musical talents, performing artists and producers it was Philippines equivalent to Grammy Awards, organized by the Philippine Association Of The Record Industry .-Objectives and Winner...

, the song won her the award for People's Choice Favorite New Female Artist. It also earned her the Favorite Female Artist award on the 2003 Candy Rap Awards
Candy (magazine)
Candy is a magazine which is dedicated to the Filipino youth. It is published by Summit Media, publisher of Yes! Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen, Total Girl, and others. The magazine is manned by editor-in-chief Mia Fausto....

. The song was awarded as the OPM Song of the Year 2003 by Magic 89.9
Magic 89.9
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, and earned Nina the OPM Artist of the Year award as well. On the 2003 MTV Pilipinas Music Awards
MTV Pilipinas Music Awards
MTV Pilipinas Music Awards is the Philippines' biggest annual music video awards event.-Award categories:*Video of the Year*Favorite Male Video*Favorite Female Video*Favorite New Artist in a Video*Favorite Group Video*Favorite Pop Video...

, the song's music video was nominated for three categories, including Favorite Female Video
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite Female Video
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Favorite Female Video....

, Favorite New Artist in a Video
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite New Artist in a Video
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Favorite New Artist in a Video....

 and Favorite Song
MTV Pilipinas for Favorite Song
The following is a list of MTV Pilipinas winners for Best Song or Favorite Song, depending on what year the award was given. The last of this award was given out in 2005....

. She won the Favorite New Artist category, but lost the other two to Regine Velasquez
Regine Velasquez
Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez , better known as Asia's Songbird, Regine Velasquez, is a Filipino singer, actress, record producer and TV host...

's "Sa Aking Pag-iisa". "Jealous" is also considered to have earned Nina the OPM Female Artist of the Year title by RX 93.1 and Favorite Female Artist award by the Teens Voice Awards throughout 2003.

Live performances

Heaven was the first album of Nina as a debut artist, making her unfamiliar to everyone at that time. To gain fans and promote her album, she has done concert performances, bar gigs and TV appearances. In 2003, she had a back-to-back major concert with Kyla
Kyla
Melanie Hernandez Calumpad Alvarez , better known by her stage name Kyla, is an R&B singer, songwriter, producer, TV host, and occasional actress from the Philippines....

 entitled Cold War at Ratsky Morato. The concert began when rivalry sparked between the two artists, and its production was full of showdowns and face-offs. Their rivalry was so strong, it was even compared to that of Nora Aunor
Nora Aunor
Nora "Guy" Aunor is a multi-awarded Filipino actress, singer and producer. Aunor has also topbilled several stage plays, television shows, and concerts. She is regarded as the "Superstar in Philippine Entertainment Industry"...

 and Vilma Santos
Vilma Santos
Maria Rosa Vilma Tuazon Santos-Recto commonly known as Vilma Santos-Recto or Ate Vi is a multi-awarded actress and politician...

. She later performed "Jealous", along with "Foolish Heart
Foolish Heart (song)
"Foolish Heart" is a rock song written by Steve Perry, formerly of the band Journey and Randy Goodrum, and was performed by Perry from his first solo album, Street Talk...

", on Freestyle
Freestyle (band)
-Current members:*Joshua Desiderio *Mike Luis *Rommel dela Cruz *Gerald Banzon *Tat Suzara -Former Members:*Christopher "Top" Suzara *Carlo Tapia *Obet Luzon...

's Acoustic Night Out concert at OnStage. She has also performed Heaven singles on MTV Live and on the first ever MYX Mo!. The song was performed live on the Nina Just Wanna Have Fun (2005) concert at the Music Museum, as well as the Nina Live! (2005) concert at the Araneta Coliseum
Araneta Coliseum
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. It was sang in a higher version on Nina's Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day
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 concert with Freestyle and Side A, Love2Love2Love (2010), and Nina... The Diamond Soul Siren (2010).

Official versions

Version Length Album
Album version 4:15 Heaven
Acoustic version 4:11 Heaven (Special Edition)
12:16 Club Remix 4:44 Nina in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes
Nina in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes
Nina in the Mix: The Dense Modesto Remixes is the first remix album by Filipino singer Nina, and the second by DJ Dense Modesto. It was released in the Philippines on October 31, 2007 by Club Myx, in collaboration with Warner Music...

Alternate Remix 2:33

Credits and personnel

Credits taken from Heavens liner notes.
  • Nina Girado
    Nina Girado
    Marifil Niña Girado , better known by her stage name Nina, is a Filipino pop/R&B singer, occasional songwriter, record producer, TV and radio personality. She made her recording debut in 2002 after signing a recording contract with Warner Music Philippines...

     - vocals
  • Brett Laurence - songwriter
  • Ferdie Marquez - producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

  • Shelly Peiken
    Shelly Peiken
    Shelly Peiken is a multi-platinum Grammy nominated songwriter who is best known for her #1 hits "What a Girl Wants" and "Come on Over Baby ".Shelly and Meredith Brooks earned a Grammy nomination for Brooks's hit song "Bitch"....

     - songwriter
    Songwriter
    A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

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