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Lauren Alaina has released a cover of Cheap Trick’s Surrender

A new single from the former American Idol runner-up?

Nope. A cover of a rock classic.

Lauren told Rolling Stone her dad was a fan of rock and roll and would encourage her to cover Cheap Trick in her early days as a singer.

So she visited Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and recorded “Surrender” in the very same — get this — bathroom where Cheap Trick recorded the song more than 40 years ago.

“Sometimes you just gotta sing a vocal in the bathroom,” she told the site.

Lauren, 24, was runner-up on Season 10 of Idol and has enjoyed a career resurgence of late, hitting number one on the country charts with “Road Less Traveled” and her Kane Brown duet, “What Ifs.”

Here’s a snippet of “Surrender,” which hadn’t landed on iTunes/Apple Music as of Friday.