Country superstar and Grand Ole Opry member Lauren Alaina chronicles her change of heart and perspective following the loss of her father on the deeply personal new song “Little Things” available now, finding her at her most vulnerable and earnest. Alaina shares that the loss of her father was unexpected and life shattering, explaining that when you have a loss of this magnitude, the little things in life start to matter a lot less.
She’ll never forget the conversation with her brother on the way to the session where she wrote this song after he told her someone complained to him about the cost of eggs and he kept thinking to himself that his dad just died and he didn’t really care about the cost of eggs anymore. Alaina told her brother that when something that really matters happens, your eyes are opened to what doesn’t, and she was going to write that song for them that day because she knows their dad would be proud of them both.
Penned with Ross Copperman, Seth Ennis and Emily Falvey and produced by lauded hitmaker Joey Moi, the song sung directly to her treasured father chronicles how her perspective shifted away from sweating the small stuff that vies for attention, with American Songwriter noting that Alaina has built up a reputation for being a vibrant force of positivity in the world.
“Little Things” follows a string of resonating releases including “All My Exes” featuring Chase Matthew which gave Alaina the biggest first week streaming numbers of her career, the sassy “Household,” the soft hearted sentimental “Those Kind of Women” and “Heaven Sent” celebrating the birth of her baby girl.