{"id":389,"date":"2015-03-29T13:08:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2023-12-20T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T15:58:14","slug":"im-not-the-only-one-by-sam-smith-explores-the-pain-of-infidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/im-not-the-only-one-by-sam-smith-explores-the-pain-of-infidelity","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not the Only One by Sam Smith Explores the Pain of Infidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve been hearing <a href=\"\/artist\/sam-smith\">Sam Smith<\/a>\u2019s song entitled \u201c<a href=\"\/song\/sam-smith-im-not-the-only-one-lyrics\">I\u2019m Not the Only One<\/a>\u201d for quite a while now, but it still does not fail to pull some heartstrings, especially of those who are sharing the same pain as the song entails. According to Sam Smith, he wanted to be the voice for lonely people and he&nbsp;has&nbsp;definitely&nbsp;done that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-image-505\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/sam-smith-Im-not-the-only-one-750x281.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Smith - I&#039;m Not The Only One\" class=\"wp-image-505\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Sam Smith &#8211; I&#8217;m Not The Only One via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nCkpzqqog4k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The message of the song is pretty clear especially after its official music video was released, starring Dianna Agron as the unhappy wife of a cheating husband played by Chris Messina. However, the song isn&#8217;t entirely about hating on the unfaithful husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><q>For months on end, I&#8217;ve had my doubt<br>Denying every tear<br>I wish this would be over now<br>But I know that I still need you here<\/q><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>These&nbsp;lyrics describe how one person&nbsp;still accepts the other&nbsp;despite knowing that he or she&nbsp;has an unfaithful partner. The music video depicts this as the wife&nbsp;is&nbsp;deeply hurt and so furious that she has thoughts of&nbsp;burning her husband&#8217;s clothes, but fails to follow through with her thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is estimated that about&nbsp;30 to 60% of all married individuals in the United States will engage in infidelity at some point during their marriage <i>(See&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.truthaboutdeception.com\/cheating-and-infidelity\/stats-about-infidelity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Infidelity Statistics<\/a>)<\/i>. With this in mind, it is no wonder this song became such a success. Almost everyone can relate to the story being told by the words of the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Often times people&nbsp;may&nbsp;stay in a cheating relationship because of the following reasons:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Love for their&nbsp;partner<\/li><li>Hope&nbsp;that their partner will change<\/li><li>Fear of the unknown<\/li><li>Low self-esteem<\/li><li>Financial support<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it, getting out of a relationship with someone you love is never easy. When you give someone your all and that person becomes a part of your life, it gets&nbsp;hard to see your life any other way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch&nbsp;Sam Smith &#8211;&nbsp;I&#8217;m Not the Only One music video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sam Smith - I&#039;m Not The Only One (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nCkpzqqog4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing Sam Smith\u2019s song entitled \u201cI\u2019m Not the Only One\u201d for quite a while now, but it still does not fail to pull some heartstrings, especially of those who are sharing the same pain as the song entails. According to Sam Smith, he wanted to be the voice&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/im-not-the-only-one-by-sam-smith-explores-the-pain-of-infidelity\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,65,63],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-song-analysis","tag-im-not-the-only-one","tag-relationship","tag-sam-smith"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyreka.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}