Lauren Alaina is set to release a new six-song EP on Friday (September 4th). Lauren co-wrote every track on the new collection, which is an emotional take on getting over lost loves.
“The last couple of years of my life have been very interesting to say the least. I spent the last 10 years in the public eye. And I spent the first few years really working on myself and learning to love myself and becoming the person that I am now. I was 15 when I started out, so I was a child. And I became a woman and most of my music up until now has been about that,” says Lauren. “About coming into my own. And then I had a couple of really public relationships that ended very publicly. And I wrote this 6-song EP called GETTING OVER HIM about how I handled that. And I really kept quiet and I didn’t say much because when there are other people involved, it always makes me nervous on what the right thing is to say and when I’m in the middle of the feelings, I don’t wanna get emotional. I don’t wanna say the wrong thing from an emotional standpoint. So, I waited until I was healed, and I addressed everything that’s happened over the last couple of years. And it’s kind of my response of how I learned to love myself and continued to love myself when others didn’t.
Getting Over Him features two duets, including the title track duet with her labelmate and friend Jon Pardi. The Georgia native also enlisted International pop sensation Lukas Graham to duet with her on her most vulnerable and heartbreaking “What Do You Think Of.”
Getting Over Him EP Track List:
- Run — Lauren Alaina/Ben Johnson/Kennedi
- If I Was A Beer – Lauren Alaina/David Garcia/Hardy
- Bar Back – Lauren Alaina/David Garcia/Hilary Lindsay
- Getting Over Him (duet with Jon Pardi) – Lauren Alaina/Paul DiGiovanni/Emily Weisband
- Seen You In Your Hometown — Lauren Alaina/Ben Johnson/ Kennedi
- What Do You Think Of? (duet with Lukas Graham) – Lauren Alaina/Johan Carlsson/ Asia Whiteacre
Alaina, one of the hottest rising female artists in country music, is making her way up the country singles chart with her current radio single “Getting Good.” The vocal powerhouse recently released a special mix of “Getting Good” which features her friend/mentor, superstar Trisha Yearwood.
Lauren will do her first ever livestream, performing tunes from her new EP, as well as some of her older songs, on September 12th.
I’m exSTREAMly excited to announce I’m doing my first ever live stream concert on September 12th to celebrate #GettingOverHim release. Get your tickets now! https://t.co/9YYoP1GMsU pic.twitter.com/pr0SdQwKrD
— Lauren Alaina (@Lauren_Alaina) September 2, 2020
Alaina has most recently performed on the 40th annual broadcast of the top-rated PBS special “A Capitol Fourth performing “This Land Is My Land,” CMA Summer Stay-Cay livestream special where she performed “Women of Summer” with Lindsay Ell and Cassadee Pope as well as “Say It With a Song” Game with Devin Dawson and HARDY as well as CMT’s Benefit Concert for Love & Acceptance and she and her friend Kane Brown performed their 5XPlatinum-selling “What Ifs” on the recent nationally-televised CMA Best of Fest on ABC.
Audio / Lauren Alaina talks about her new EP, Getting Over Him.
DownloadLauren Alaina (Getting Over Him EP) 1 OC: …others didn’t. 1:15
“The last couple of years of my life have been very interesting to say the least. I spent the last 10 years in the public eye. And I spent the first few years really working on myself and learning to love myself and becoming the person that I am now. I was 15 when I started out, so I was a child. And I became a woman and most of my music up until now has been about that,” says Lauren. “About coming into my own. And then I had a couple of really public relationships that ended very publicly. And I wrote this 6-song EP called GETTING OVER HIM about how I handled that. And I really kept quiet and I didn’t say much because when there are other people involved, it always makes me nervous on what the right thing is to say and when I’m in the middle of the feelings, I don’t wanna get emotional. I don’t wanna say the wrong thing from an emotional standpoint. So, I waited until I was healed, and I addressed everything that’s happened over the last couple of years. And it’s kind of my response of how I learned to love myself and continued to love myself when others didn’t.”
Audio / Lauren Alaina covers a lot of emotional ground on her new EP, Getting Over Him.
DownloadLauren Alaina (Getting Over Him EP) 2 OC: … six-song EP. :51
“Up until now in my career I feel like most my songs have really been about myself. And these songs kind of feel like they’re about other people and how they treated me or how I responded to certain situations I was in. And really I think that Road Less Travelled was so important for me to write before I wrote this music because I learned how to be vulnerable and how to be honest about myself and that really kind of set me up to be vulnerable and honest about other things that happened to me. And I’m really proud of it. I think that I covered all of the emotions I felt. Anger, sadness, happiness. New love; what’s gonna happen for me next. Grrrr! Meh! All of the emotions are all wrapped up into this one six-song EP. “
Audio / Lauren Alaina talks about naming her new EP, Getting Over Him.
DownloadLauren Alaina (Getting Over Him EP) 3 OC: …little break-up. :31
“The first EP was Getting Good, and then I was trying to name this EP. Most of the songs are about getting over him. It felt like the overall theme of this EP was ‘getting over him’ and how I did that. Even the ones that are love songs now, or… like “Seeing You In Your Hometown” is about a newer love and how you feel about that. Well, that was part of getting over him, so it kind of just made sense. All of them just made sense. My little break-up.”
