With a brand new model of their hit single, Sam Smith actually is not going to be the one one.
In a put up to their social media on Wednesday (July 31), Smith introduced that they’d be releasing a brand new model of their Within the Lonely Hour single “I’m Not the Solely One” that includes R&B icon Alicia Keys. Posting a photograph with Keys, Smith wrote concerning the singer’s help and expertise, thanking her for becoming a member of them on the brand new model of the music.
“I’m Not The Solely One feat. the really incomparable @aliciakeys … I’m so honoured to have such an unbelievable expertise and a gorgeous soul be a part of me on this monitor to have a good time a decade of In The Lonely Hour,” they wrote in an Instagram caption.
This gained’t be the primary time the pair have sung the music collectively. Again in June, Smith hosted a tenth anniversary celebration in New York Metropolis for his or her debut studio album, the place Keys appeared as a particular visitor to carry out the monitor. “Are you able to imagine we by no means did this earlier than?” she expressed on the time. “That’s loopy!”
The brand new music launch comes alongside Smith’s tenth anniversary version of Within the Lonely Hour, which incorporates new recordings of the album’s basic tracks. For one music particularly — their singular, breakthrough hit “Keep With Me” — Smith determined to replace the lyrics in an effort to higher mirror their gender id in 2024. “This music is really so particular to me, so for the ten 12 months anniversary I re-recorded the monitor … together with the up to date lyric ‘however I nonetheless want love, child perceive’ which felt actually essential to me,” they stated of the change in an announcement. “It’s stunning to know that typically, we are able to change the previous.”
Smith & Keys’ new rendition of “I’m Not the Solely One,” in addition to the remainder of the tenth anniversary version of Within the Lonely Hour, might be launched on Friday, Aug. 2. Take a look at Smith’s Instagram put up beneath:
