Lauren Alaina Surprisingly Leaves Longtime File Label, Guarantees “Thrilling Issues”

by Cindy Watts

16h in the past

Lauren Alaina shocked nation music followers and trade watchers on Monday when she revealed in a social media publish that she had parted methods together with her longtime document label Mercury Data, the place she’s been signed since she was 16 years previous. She’s now 27.

“I wish to thank the employees at Mercury Data and UMG Nashville for all the pieces they’ve achieved for me over the past 11 years,” Alaina wrote. “They’ve been my label dwelling for the reason that day I walked off the American Idol stage as a extremely younger, wide-eyed, keen 16 yr previous child. Now, at 27 years previous, I look again and see simply how a lot I’ve modified and grown into the lady I’m now.”

She continued: “I’ve made the robust resolution to unfold my wings and shut an important chapter of my life. There are extra thrilling issues taking place in my profession proper now than ever earlier than, and I simply can’t wait to see the place all of it leads. Rather more to share quickly.”

Alaina has already had a jam-packed 12 months. Final summer time, she launched her critically acclaimed new album “Sitting Fairly On High of the World,” her Hallmark film “Roadhouse Romance” debuted within the fall of 2021, her inspirational e-book “Getting Good at Being You: Studying to Love Who God Made You to Be” got here out in December, she was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry earlier this yr, she’s at present on tour and featured within the new superstar excessive actuality sequence “Past The Edge” that airs 9 p.m. (ET) Wednesdays on CBS.

The singer has additionally talked rather a lot about embracing the lady she’s grown into.

Alaina shared with Folks a therapist advised her: “You’re the one you you’ll ever have. Be good to your self.”

The assertion resonated at such a stage that it triggered the singer’s odyssey to self-love. Earlier than launching her new tour, she stated, “It’s been a extremely arduous journey for me to search out self-acceptance and discover self-worth. This tour actually appears like a celebration of all the progress I’ve had over the past 10 years in my profession and in my private life.”