Lauren Alaina Announces New Single “18 Inches” at CMA Fest (VIDEO)

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Season 10 runner-up Lauren Alaina, announced to the CMA Fest crowd last night at her LP Field acoustic set that her next single with be the Carrie Underwood co-write with Ashley Gorley and Kelley Lovelace, “18 Inches”. Yay for a new single!

Watch Lauren perform “18 Inches” last night as part of her acoustic set at CMA Fest’s nightly concert at LP Field below.

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  • Anonymous

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkO6oMrj78w&feature=youtu.be

    Here is the Orpy vid of 18″.  It is a song that lends itself better to a quieter venue or moment not when everyone is getting their beers refilled or bladder emptied.LOL hope you are enjoying your time for what I see on line it sounds like tons of things to do.Enjoy the game.

  • Anonymous

    I just listened to this and it makes me wonder why they could not find more age appropriate material for Lauren. Jana kramer song is something that sounds like it should be coming out of a teenagers thoughts ( I have no idea how old she is) while Im not sure many can relate to this song coming out of someone as young as Lauren.

    On that same point her styling is also reverting to a more aged look that will not attract the younger set.

  • Anonymous

    Dont understand your comment this is a song about younger kids running away for love. Lauren is a younger kid.The kids seem to love this song as they can relate to it.  Jana Kramer song speaks of a somewhat older experience to my ears. She is in her twenties. I think this is more where the next album will sit as Lauren will be 18 by then.

    That is a conservative outfit that seems to be required dress code for Opry.
    I do not think it was that old looking it had a nice drawstring waste tie that gave it a nice look though it did not show up well on the vid ie I dont think it was as old looking as it came accross on the vid.

  • Anonymous

    Why I believe it is an old song as it is not present time it is a look back on being a young runaway lover who has progressed through the struggles of making it at menial jobs for love. The is really a darker look of Carries “All American Girl” right through the birth of a child and becoming a mother.

  • Anonymous

    That’s all to deep for me.

    If that was Carrie’s intent when she wrote the song 99.9% of the people who hear it will not know that and it will stand in present day on its own merits I,m guessing.

  • gferna

    sorry, wrong thread…

  • Anonymous

    I think this a good single choice, hopefully country radio PDs will play it. 

  • BonnieDee

    She looks beautiful as always.  I’ll be glad in 5 months when she turns 18, is of legal age, and maybe we won’t get all the “age” comments.  

  • BonnieDee

    Lauren is 17.  She’ll be 18 in 5 months.  Certainly old enough to talk about teens being in love and running off together.   I think the video will either be from the Lauren’s point of view as a friend of the couple in question, or she’ll be reflecting on the love of a parent or grandparent, thus the Thank God for those 18 inches, part of it because if the parents or grandparents hadn’t married and had a baby she wouldn’t exist..  There’s other possibilities, those are the ones that come to mind.  

  • Chris

    Thanks. We had discussed before the My Kinda Party tour that some of the slower songs may not work well in an arena filled with the party crowd. Lots of beer flowing they want a good time. Even if it’s her new single, an Uptempo like OOTB with the U2 intro may have worked out. Trying to entertain a huge crowd with a new single is a tall order.

    That said, I saw some nice tweets so maybe she made a few new fans.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SYFK77IYLRQIVATQ2MJKSW2J7Y Pam

    Yay new single!

    I would have gone with DRP as well but this is still a good song.  I hope it does well for Lauren.

    Thanks for the video mj.

  • Chris

    Bigger sigh. I gotta switch back to pop, the timing in my head is not used to this….

    As a waltz, and with a late summer/fall timing of climbing the charts, maybe it could get picked up for DWTS.

  • Anonymous

    I bought Lauren’s album and really like it. Like a previous poster, I thought Tupelo or One Of Those Boys would make a good single. I’m not as enthusiastic with 18 Inches but hope it does well for her. I really love her voice and am rooting for her.

  • http://twitter.com/LexieONeill Lexie O’Neill

    Thanks–am definitely enjoying my time (except for those who perform with that wall of sound I hate). 

    Didn’t know if this thread is done, but didn’t know where to put this.  Lauren was the star of yesterday’s softball game (she and David Nail who was an outstanding player).  She was just being her sassy self, chasing the TN Titans football players (he’d insulted her at the plate or something) with a supersoaker, but somehow she was the one got soaked with water balloons.  She was charming and hilarious, chased the guy up in the stands.

    As far as cheers when they came to bat, Scotty, Carrie (who can play!) and Brantley Gilbert (as much as I hate to admit it) got the biggest cheers.  Scotty played very well (he can bat, too, doubled every time, I think), but was rather serious.:)

    Scotty’s fan club party…sold out.  A girl in front of me at LP Field hadn’t heard about it until I told her (we’re getting to know the people all around us:) and tried to get tickets, but no luck (she joined the fan club yesterday, though:).  Waiting in a line that snaked around the building to get in during the middle of the day, a girl passed out and they brought in the fire truck and ambulance (but she went in to the party anyway).  We had Bojangles for lunch (too greasy, Scotty) and then he gave a private concert.  Fantastic to be in the small setting (800) and so close:)  He sang his three singles, You Make that Look Good, WYNOMH, and Trouble.  Then, he went into another room and they had a professional photographer take his pic with all the fans.

    His family and friends formed a reception line, and it was all very efficient.  A Nashville radio station dj played games and did the announcing. 

    Hope you enjoy the details!  Have a great day, will tell about his performance at LP field tonight tomorrow;)

  • Anonymous

    Quite a number of people over at Pulse were not that happy about 18 Inches being the next single.

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