Lauren Alaina Finds Herself On ‘Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World’

Lauren Alaina Finds Herself On ‘Sitting Pretty On Top Of The World’

Alaina, 26, releases her third album, Sitting Pretty on Top of the World, today via Mercury Nashville. On Saturday, Sept. 11 her film Roadhouse Romance premieres on the Hallmark Channel and on Tuesday, Nov. 23 her book, Getting Good At Being You, debuts. She credits juggling her many ventures to having a strong team around her. For Alaina though, it is her unwavering faith and passion for music that has kept her going through difficult times. The best business advice she's learned is don't ever give up. "If there's something inside you telling you that you're supposed to do something, you probably are," she tells me. After placing second on American Idol, Alaina moved to Nashville. Things didn't connect immediately for her, and Nashville was expensive for the teenager from Rossville, GA. Times were tough, and she had to make the difficult decision to sell the Shelby Cobra Mustang she won while on American Idol. "I was famous, but I wasn't successful," she says of the years following American Idol. "I didn't have money and in order to survive I had to sell it. It was the hardest decision. I couldn't make ends meet so I sold that car, but