There’s just a few weeks left before Lauren Alaina releases her new album, Road Less Traveled, and she couldn’t be more thrilled.

“I have felt just about every feeling you could feel about this album,” says an exuberant Lauren. “There were moments where I never thought it would come out. There were moments where I thought I could not write another song, and there were moments where it was all I was living for. I mean, like, that’s all I thought about. I woke up every morning obsessing over it, and to have a long time between the albums is really rare. Five years is a long time to not have an album out. So, to have new music out and a date and a definite time it’s gonna come out, I’m just, I could not be more excited.”

She says even though this is her second album (her debut album, Wildflower, was released in 2011), she feels the collection is basically launching her into the world. “I have put every part of me into this album. I have had a crazy few years emotionally and I wrote about all of that, and I really feel like this album is introducing me.”

Road Less Traveled, featuring her Top 20 hit of the same title, will be available January 27th.