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Lauren Alaina traveled a long road to her second album, taking six years to deliver a sequel to her 2011 debut. Blame the delay on vagaries of the marketplace and also a 2014 vocal surgery, two elements that ensure a slow working pace, but the upside of this half-decade hiatus is that Road Less Traveled almost plays like a second debut album. It announces a new Lauren Alaina, one who is happy to be a country diva in the vein of Carrie Underwood. Wildflower, her 2011 album, also carried a debt to Underwood but it retained a bit of a twang, whereas Road Less Traveled is a big, bright country confection. Alaina co-wrote every one of the 12 songs and whether they're ballads or chipper pop tunes, they're usually sturdy numbers. She may drift into the saccharine when she slows the tempo -- the closing "Pretty" is a self-empowerment anthem that attempts to spin Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" toward Middle America -- but the faster cuts are usually jubilant and help propel Road Less Traveled, turning it into a strong modern country-pop album.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2016 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Lauren Alaina, MainArtist
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Lauren Alaina traveled a long road to her second album, taking six years to deliver a sequel to her 2011 debut. Blame the delay on vagaries of the marketplace and also a 2014 vocal surgery, two elements that ensure a slow working pace, but the upside of this half-decade hiatus is that Road Less Traveled almost plays like a second debut album. It announces a new Lauren Alaina, one who is happy to be a country diva in the vein of Carrie Underwood. Wildflower, her 2011 album, also carried a debt to Underwood but it retained a bit of a twang, whereas Road Less Traveled is a big, bright country confection. Alaina co-wrote every one of the 12 songs and whether they're ballads or chipper pop tunes, they're usually sturdy numbers. She may drift into the saccharine when she slows the tempo -- the closing "Pretty" is a self-empowerment anthem that attempts to spin Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful" toward Middle America -- but the faster cuts are usually jubilant and help propel Road Less Traveled, turning it into a strong modern country-pop album.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:11
- Main artists: Lauren Alaina
- Label: Wrasse Records
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
(C) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. (P) 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
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