[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Idol” Episode 2, “Double Fantasy.”]Nikki (Jane Adams) doesn’t give the impression she likes to be “summoned.” Wearily walking through her client’s mansion, passing two framed records that are just lying against the barren wall, Nikki plops down next to her fellow handlers and immediately starts complaining: Why would Jocelyn (Lily Rose-Depp) change her single? “What about the sound we created for her?” Her mom’s dead? Who cares! “Mothers die.”Meanwhile, Jocelyn is waiting upstairs.
Nervous over the remix she made with Tedros Tedros (Able “The Weeknd” Tesfaye), she texts him, looking for a little support before facing the jackals downstairs.
“Tried u earlier,” she types.
“Call u after,” she concedes.The version of “World Class Sinner” her team hears is hardly high-art.
Extra breathy and with a jagged melody, it’s less suited for a car stereo or a night club than to privately play while…
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