Lauren Alainaâs third album, Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World is available nowâŚ
The 15-track project combines new material along with tracks from her two EPs from last year, Getting Good and Getting Over Him.
Talking about the new album, Lauren says âItâs about a dreamer becoming an achiever. Itâs being broken and ending up healed. Itâs all of me. The early chapters. The new beginnings. The hope for the future and total appreciation for the past. Taking the Road Less Traveled and ending up Sitting Pretty on Top of the World.â
Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World track listing;
1. âIt Was Meâ (Lauren Alaina, Hillary Lindsey)
2. âIf The World Was A Small Townâ (Lauren Alaina, David Garcia, Josh Miller)
3. âGetting Goodâ (featuring Trisha Yearwood) (Emily Weisband)
4. âSame Story, Different Saturday Nightâ (Lauren Alaina, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
5. âOn Top Of The Worldâ (Lauren Alaina, Jordan Reynolds, Sasha Sloan)
6. âRunâ (Lauren Alaina, Ben Johnson, Kennedi Lykken)
7. âWhat Do You Think Of?â (duet w Lukas Graham) (Lauren Alaina, Jens Carlsson, Asia Whiteacre)
8. âIâm Not Sad Anymoreâ (Lauren Alaina, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
9. âGetting Over Himâ (duet w Jon Pardi) (Lauren Alaina, Paul DiGiovanni, Emily Weisband)
10. âGood Ole Boyâ (Lauren Alaina, David Garcia, Josh Miller)
11. âWhen The Partyâs Overâ (Lauren Alaina, David Garcia, Corey Crowder)
12. âYou Ainât A Cowboyâ (Lauren Alaina, Casey Brown, Parker Welling)
13. âGoodbye Streetâ (Lauren Alaina, Jacob Durrett, Ernest K. Smith)
14. âWritten In The Barâ (Lauren Alaina, Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna, Liz Rose)
15. âChange My Mindâ (Lauren Alaina, Cameron Bedell, Seth Ennis)
When it comes to the track sequence, Lauren wants listeners to know, âThe order and everything is important. I start the album with âIt Was Meâ and I end it with âChange My Mind.â You hear the needle drop at the top, and the vinyl fade out at the endâŚand my whole story is in there. Kind of in order.â
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Lauren shares, âI think the most important song on the record for meâŚthe one that I love the most is âIt Was Meâ the first song on the album. It is the most vulnerable and raw and honest song best that Iâve ever written and I pride myself on writing honest and vulnerable songs but I think the reason I love it the most is I really think it shows how much Iâve grown as a person. I had to do a lot of soul-searching to be able to say something like that So, for my first love I put it first for that reason.â
When it comes to the album title, Lauren says âI titled the album Sitting Pretty On Top of the World based off of the fifth track called âOn Top of the World, and I wrote that song about my struggles with depression. I was out for a walk with my mask on in my neighborhood when the whole world was shut down and the only thing we were allowed to do was walk on the sidewalk far away from everyone else and the weight of the whole pandemic hit me in that walk for whatever reason I thinkâŚI think we all got there at different timesâŚwhen it finally hit us what was actually happening. I got upsetâŚthen I got upset with myself for being upset and I wrote down âhitting rock-bottom sitting on top of the world.â We made it about a break up to make it a little bit of a softerâŚI guess delivery for the idea but it ended up being âhitting rock bottom sitting pretty on top of the world.'â
She adds, âThe title, now for me, is just really empowering sounding and I found so much healing and Iâve gotten myself into such a great place emotionallyâŚthat, that title feels really representative of how I feel now too so itâs kind of a double meaning.â
With the release of her third album, Lauren realizes how far sheâs come since her first last two projects and the 10 years sheâs been on the country music scene, âWriting the songs helped me to grow and they also helped me to realize how much I have grown. Iâve been through a lot since I was 16, a lot of life changing events. And this album for me feels like a celebration of all of those things and overcoming all of those things. And I start â this journey is really a lot about my love life more than anything Iâve ever done. I mean I was 16 to 19 writing the last album and this album I was 25. So thatâs a really big difference in life.â
Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World from Lauren Alaina is available now, and it includes her current single at country radio â âGetting Over Himâ which features her buddy Jon Pardi.
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