Lauren Alaina's Song Lyrics Explain How To Take The 'Road Less Traveled'

What is it like to take the "Road Less Traveled?" Just ask Lauren Alaina -- she wrote an entire song about it with Meghan Trainor and Jesse Frasure. The 21-year-old rising country singer's new song is included on her self-titled EP which she released in October 2015 via Mercury Nashville & Interscope Records, and follows up her previous single "Next Boyfriend." The latest single released last summer, "Road Less Traveled," has been a great success for the Georgia native, and hit higher on the US Country Airplay chart than any other song she's released.

We recently caught up with Lauren, who is iHeartRadio's current "On The Verge" artist, and learned more about the meaning behind her "Road Less Traveled" song lyrics, and what it was like to write the song with her friend Meghan Trainor.

The country star tells iHeartRadio of writing with Trainor, "Meghan is as big of a goofball as I am, so us in one room is pretty crazy. But, we wrote it with Jesse Frasure, and it was really cool because he's one of our really good friends too. We just had so much fun. It was just one of those writes where you're with your friends, and it doesn't really feel like your working. We made up this stupid dance, Meghan and I did. It was like high-fiving each other, and turning in circles. It was so lame, it was patty cake but two adults were doing it."

How to take the "Road Less Traveled," according to Lauren Alaina's song lyrics:

Lauren also broke down the lyrics of her new single, and explained exactly how to take the "Road Less Traveled" using the song itself. 

1. "Dress sizes can't define, don't let the world decide what's beautiful."

"I have always been really hard on myself about what size dress I wear, which is so dumb because every dress is different, and you can wear all kinds of different sizes no matter what size you actually are, and I just think that that's so irrelevant. If the size of your jeans makes someone like you, they are not really someone that you want to like you. I've never looked at someone and said, if you were a size 2 we could be friends. Like no one would do that. That's awful. So don't obsess over things that don't matter. Be a good person. That's what counts. Buy stretch jeans because look, these things are two sizes too small when I take them off, then I put them on and they fit like a glove because they're stretch jeans."

2. "You won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules."

"That was a tricky line for me, because I don't want people to think I'm saying go out and break the law, and smash people's cars with baseball bats. I'm saying don't follow the rules of society. Like in high school, you have to wear a certain outfit to be cool, and you have to sit at a certain table, and you have to do this and that, and that is lame. None of that stuff matters. It matters if you enjoy the people you are sitting with at lunch, and if you like what you are eating, which is really important. I just want everyone to be encouraged to be different. If we were all the same, it would be very boring."

3. "If you trust your rebel heart, ride it into battle."

"I definitely have a rebel heart. I definitely am left field on pretty much everything, and I think that helps me so much on stage. If you're comfortable with who you are, people like you so much more. I used to be so uncomfortable in my skin. I used to be the person that would say really bad things about myself so that I would stop other people from saying them. Like if I said it first, it wouldn't hurt my feelings if someone else said it -- which is such a bad habit. I just want [other people] ... whatever is in their heart, I just want them to go for that. I've always wanted to be a singer, and all of a sudden I tried out for my favorite TV show, and I had a record deal, and I had everything I ever wanted, and I had an eating disorder and was hurting my body every single day. I had everything I wanted, but I was letting what other people say stop that, and I don't want other people to do that. It's not a way to live your life."

4. "Put your hands up, show me that you're one of a kind."

"You have to be different. I say that all the time. I want everybody to feel comfortable in their own skin, and just embrace who they are. None of my friends are alike, and I love them all for different reasons. And, that's how it works. Everybody should be different and unique, and that's what makes us all special and different."

5. "Wear out your boots and kick up the gravel."

"I have so many pairs of boots it's ridiculous. But you can wear any kind of shoe you're comfortable in. But, go for it! That's really the saying. Work hard and go for whatever you want to do, and do whatever you gotta do to get there."