LAUREN ALAINA

                                                            "It Was Me" 

                                                            A19/Mercury Records Nashville

Lauren Alaina has recently announced the release of her next album Sitting Pretty on Top of the World, and she has said that it will be more personal than what we’ve heard from her in the past. To give us a taste of how deep it will go, Alaina has offered the ultra-vulnerable “It Was Me.”

The follow-up to her sassy “Getting Over Him,” completely flips the script and gives us a stop you in your tracks stone country song that relies heavily on the lyrics and the vocal delivery from Alaina to tug our heartstrings.

The lyric plays out like an apology to an ex about their relationship ending, but it comes from the perspective after Alaina has already faced the mirror, admitted her own faults, and has come to terms with them.

“I broke your heart cause mine was already broken,” is the line that opens the song, and the vulnerable lyrics continue to flow from there:

“I called you every name under the sun and said you ain’t the one.”

“I was just so insecure, but you didn’t break me, so how could you save me?”

“If I’m being honest, boy…I wasn’t being that honest, boy.”

“It wasn’t you I didn’t love, it was me.”

“I was taking my hurt and hurting you with it.”

By accompanying these soul-searching lyrics with acoustic guitars as the main instrumentation, it allows Alaina to truly carry the depth of the song. This is raw honesty twisting together with stark vulnerability and traces of regret that all work together to punch home the necessary emotions.

Lauren Alaina has done well since bursting onto the country music scene after her time on American Idol, charting nearly every single she’s released in the Top 40. However, if “It Was Me” is any indication of how deep this next album is going to go, then we’re about to see a Lauren Alaina that we haven’t seen yet, and it will be one that will solidify her as one of country music’s leading ladies.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis)

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