Lauren Alaina‘s Getting Over Him EP will be out on Friday, September 4. The six-song collection is all songs she wrote, mostly about her splits with both her longtime boyfriend, Alex Hopkins, and Christian comedian John Crist, with whom she split right before appearing on Dancing With the Stars, amid allegations against him of sexual misconduct.
“The last couple of years of my life have been very interesting to say the least,” Lauren said (via UMG). “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. About coming into my own. And then I had a couple of really public relationships that ended very publicly. And I wrote this six-song EP called Getting Over Him about how I handled that.
“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,” she continued. “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.”
Lauren already released the EP Getting Good earlier this year, which was the perfect introduction to Getting Over Him.
“I was trying to name this EP,” Lauren shared. “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.”
Lauren sings the title track of her upcoming EP with Jon Pardi. See the track list below, and pre-order Getting Over Him at LaurenAlaina.com.
Getting Over Him Track List:
1. Run — Lauren Alaina/Ben Johnson/Kennedi
2. If I Was A Beer – Lauren Alaina/David Garcia/Hardy
3. Bar Back – Lauren Alaina/David Garcia/Hilary Lindsay
4. Getting Over Him (duet with Jon Pardi) – Lauren Alaina/Paul DiGiovanni/Emily Weisband
5. Seen You In Your Hometown — Lauren Alaina/Ben Johnson/ Kennedi
6. What Do You Think Of? (duet with Lukas Graham) – Lauren Alaina/Johan Carlsson/ Asia Whiteacre