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Listen: Lauren Alaina Releases ‘Run,’ New EP Coming

Lauren Alaina, releases her new song “Run” today (7/31). Lauren told us, “I wrote ‘Run’ with Ben Johnson and Kennedi. We are all running. Constantly. Non-Stop. Even in this quarantine,…

Listen: Lauren Alaina Releases 'Run,' New EP Coming
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Lauren Alaina, releases her new song “Run” today (7/31).

Lauren told us, “I wrote ‘Run’ with Ben Johnson and Kennedi. We are all running. Constantly. Non-Stop. Even in this quarantine, we are all still the busiest we’ve ever been. Life just keeps going and going and going in unbelievable paces as we try to race ourselves to the next thing. My idea with the song was to refer to examples of all things that run because no matter what your walk of life is we are all racing to the next thing."

She adds, "We are all trying to get where we are going. We all get our hearts broken. We all have these childhood dreams. We ‘run’ to make it all happen.”

“Run,” co-written by Alaina, Ben Johnson and Kennedi, is the first song from the multi-award winner’s upcoming new EP, Getting Over Him, coming September 4.

Getting Over Him EP Track Listing:

1. Run
2. If I Was A Beer
3. Bar Back
4. Getting Over Him (duet with Jon Pardi)
5. See You In Your Hometown
6. What Do You Think Of? (duet with Lukas Graham)

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