It really is mid-February in Nashville and similar to customers inside area, singer-songwriter Lauren Alaina might dealing with ice, snowfall and frigid conditions over the past day or two, trying to make the best of the specific situation.

aˆ?we went up to a pal's household yesterday and I failed to create, because I found myself as well frightened to get,aˆ? she informed American Songwriter.

Alainais also making the best off unfortunate circumstances in her newer single, aˆ?Getting Over Him,aˆ? a sizzling slice of defiant enjoyable that discovers Alaina eschewing intimate entanglements in favor of some flirty, no-strings-attached moments. No strings, Saturday-night/ Hot like a match that burned-out fast/ Forever was not within our attention/ your understood it, and that I realized they ... only my gettin' over your man, she sings within the track.

As 2019 dawned, she and longtime sweetheart Alex Hopkins announced they had known as down their own wedding, only six months after the guy jumped the question. She dated comedian John Crist for a few months, before the set split in e year.

aˆ?we knew I got never simply come away and flirted. I did not know how to getting single,aˆ? she states. aˆ?A large amount of times when I write a song, it really is a tremendously certain, about a particular person, which a person's just not. I simply recommended this song to express the summer season of me learning to be unmarried.aˆ?

In , Alaina resolved the emotional wreckage of the breakups on her EP Obtaining close. Half a year after, she revealed its followup, Getting Over Him, which showcases simply that-an Alaina that is ready to progress while focusing on her next section.

aˆ?I became like, aˆ?i must get-out and get a very good time,' that we don't actually know how exactly to create because i am when you look at the community eye since I have was 16. But I had one little month when I have homes from [competing on] dance with the performers in which I would spend time Delaware dating site and become flirty. I have nevertheless never ever kissed a boy in a bar. Although notion of they, we wrote this tune about it.aˆ?

The track's genesis emerged after Alaina weathered two fizzled interactions

Some statement of wisdom from the woman management and couple of informal hangouts with a guy friend supported right up a lot more inspiration. aˆ?My management stated, aˆ?The best way attain over some guy is hug another guy.'aˆ? Alaina offers. aˆ?There was some guy that I happened to be kind of just-he was not serious about myself and I was not dedicated to him-but we might hang out and we're friends. And I cannot also believe I actually ever kissed the guy, but we might spend time. I recall convinced, aˆ?This is just a whole lot a lot better than me resting in the home whining.' Thus I was actually like, aˆ?He's not my personal chap, but In my opinion he's my personal getting over him guy.'aˆ?

Alaina at first meant to need among song's trick lines-My final label, earliest name, no falling/Just my recovering from your man -in another tune. aˆ?It would definitely be like, aˆ?i am the latest call very first phone call,' concerning this chap which only phone calls myself as he's drunk. I have had a couple of those, but I ended up utilizing these lyrics within song as it suits very well.aˆ?

It truly was not a commitment

Alaina got that concept into a songwriting period with trusted collaborators Emily Weisband (exactly who penned Alaina's 2019 single aˆ?Getting Goodaˆ?) and Paul DiGiovanni, just who additionally made the woman brand new EP.

It absolutely was Alaina's idea to change aˆ?Getting Over Himaˆ? into a duet. aˆ?I was thinking we can easily inform they from the man's viewpoint, too,aˆ? she says. aˆ?That also softens it given that it seems like a tune about a one-night stand, I am also not a one-night stay female. Bringing this different fictional character in it type of softened they and made it more fun.aˆ?