The title track of Lauren Alaina’s EP Getting Over Him is an upbeat look at a rebound from both sides of the relationship. The country star enlisted her fellow artist and good friend Jon Pardi for the duet.
Inspiration for the song came after Alaina experienced two public breakups over the course of a year. The American Idol runner-up split with her fiancée, Alex Hopkins, whom she first dated in high school. Another breakup followed when a four-month relationship with comedian John Crist fell apart. “I had this idea because after my two breakups,” Alaina told ABC Audio, “I had not been single – like really been single – since I was 17 years old. And I was like, ‘I just need a little flirty song about a boy in a bar, I think.'”
Alaina co-wrote “Getting Over Him” with Paul DiGiovanni and Emily Weisband. She’s been cheated on and is looking for something decidedly not serious, and Pardi’s “getting over him guy” has got a reputation and is more than willing to help out.
Sister-brother duo Alexa and Stephen Kinigopoulos directed the Bonnie and Clyde-esque video. It finds Alaina and Pardi on the lam from the law after breaking out of jail and taking on an ill-fated crime.
