Lucy Hale Dishes On ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ Her New Music Career [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]

Lucy Hale recently made her studio album debut and now the actress is currently seen weekly on the small screen in ABC Family’s hit series Pretty Little Liars, which kicked off it’s fifth season earlier this summer.

Lucy Hale Talks Pretty Little Liars

Hale, 25, has been a star on Pretty Little Liars since it premiered back in 2010. As Aria Montgomery, she makes up one quarter of a group of high school pals that is routinely harassed by the mysterious “A” after the disappearance of their friend Alison (Sasha Pieterse). Upon learning that Alison is actually alive and well, they manage to get her to come back to their small hometown of Rosewood, Penn., that’s stunned to learn she wasn’t the girl they buried three years ago.

“Now that [Alison] is back, it kind of changes the dynamic for all the girls and I think you see a lot of growth and development for each of the characters,” Hale told uInterview exclusively. “Especially Aria, I mean she’s kind of holding a lot of resentment towards Alison and then she’s dealing with Ezra (Ian Harding) and so there’s that whole romance roller coaster that’s pretty much constant throughout the show.”

Hale’s Music Career

Before Hale was playing Aria, the aspiring teen writer who carries on a romance with her English teacher Ezra Fitz, she first and foremost wanted to have a career in music. While Pretty Little Liars may have sidetracked her plans for a country album, the show eventually afforded her the opportunity to get back into a recording studio.

“I started out in music and then, sort of, acting was a surprise to me. It was a surprise that I fell in love with it,” said Hale. “And, so because of the success of PLL, music kind of got put on the back burner. And then because of the success of the show, it opened up so many doors and I got to go back to my first love, which is music.”

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Because of Pretty Little Liars’ relative mainstream appeal, some expected Hale to put out a pop music album – not the subdued country the Tennessee native sings on Road Between.

“I think a lot of people thought I was going to go in a different direction and just being a part of a commercially popular show, I think they just assumed that I would go, you know, that way, but at heart I’ve always, I mean I’m from the south, I grew up on country music,” Hale revealed to uInterview. “There really was no other option for me. It kind of was the only way to go.”

Pretty Little Liars airs Tuesdays on ABC Family at 8/7c.