Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood just debuted the way-cool music video for their hot new duet, “Somethin’ Bad” — and while the song and video are both a rockin’ good time, Miranda told reporters not long ago that her original vision for a Carrie duet took on a new light after a little input from hubby Blake Shelton. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Earlier today, CMT, MTV, VH1, and their corresponding websites simultaneously debuted Miranda and Carrie’s video for “Somethin’ Bad” — and we’re thinkin’ it’s definitely somethin’ awesome! Watch it here!
• “Somethin’ Bad” is the second single is from Miranda’s acclaimed, chart-topping new album, Platinum, which also includes her recent number-one smash, “Automatic.”
• Miranda currently graces what has become a landmark: the final monthly issue of the 131-year-old Ladies’ Home Journal, which will become a quarterly specialty magazine and continue its website going forward. But the magazine definitely has a great lady to go out in style! Look for the July issue, on stands now.

  Miranda Lambert shares some of the story behind her new duet with Carrie Underwood. (1:00)
“Carrie and I both have rock edge to our…I mean, there’s a lot of rock & roll on both of our records at certain times — we’re country as hell sometimes, and then there’s…I mean, you’ve seen her sing with Steven Tyler — hello. So I thought why not…well, I had this idea a long time ago, and I told Blake — I was like, ‘I wanna write this country song, and me and her do it acoustic, about who’s gonna fill our shoes type deal, you know, at the Grand Ole Opry, with me and Carrie Underwood — and we’re gonna be country females,’ and all this. He was like, ‘Well, that’d be cool,’ and then like two hours later, he was like, ‘I just want to say one thing: you have Carrie Underwood. If she’s gonna sing with you, you need to take advantage of it. I mean, that’s Carrie Underwood, so you might just think about a rocker.’ And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, probably right.’ (laughs) So then I found that song, and I thought, ‘Well, this might be the one,’ you know, ‘cause it rang in my head whenever I heard that song, thinkin’, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t try to do some sappy ballad. Maybe I should…we should just rock — and here we are rockin’.”