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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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Busbee, Producer - Michael Busbee, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Emily Shackleton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Michael Busbee, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Emily Weisband, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Jordan Reynolds, ComposerLyricist - Seth Ennis, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Jesse Frasure, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Meghan Trainor, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Victoria Banks, ComposerLyricist - Busbee, Producer - Lindsey Lee, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2016 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Emily Shackleton, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Alex Masters, ComposerLyricist - Lindsay Rimes, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Scott Johnson, Producer, Assistant Producer - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Emily Weisband, ComposerLyricist - Matthew McVaney, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Johan Fransson, ComposerLyricist - Busbee, Producer - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Emily Weisband, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Caitlyn Smith, ComposerLyricist - Dan Couch, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Eric Olson, ComposerLyricist - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Emily Weisband, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2015 19 Recordings, Inc.
Busbee, Producer - Lauren Alaina, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Felicia Barton, ComposerLyricist - Emily Weisband, ComposerLyricist
℗ 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: 00:41:54
- Main artists: Lauren Alaina
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Lauren Alaina
- Genre: Country
© 2017 19 Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2017 19 Recordings, Inc.
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