Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood continue to climb the charts with their red-hot duet, “Somethin’ Bad,” which earned a pair of CMA Awards nominations this morning for Music Video and Musical Event of the Year! And Carrie recalls that when Miranda first reached out to her about recording it, she could immediately envision them having a great time doing the song together. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Congratulations to Carrie on her three CMA Awards nominations this morning! In addition to Music Video and Musical Event with Miranda for “Somethin’ Bad,” Carrie is nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year! Be sure to tune-in as Carrie and Brad Paisley co-host The 48th Annual CMA Awards, November 5th, at 8pm, ET, on ABC.
• “Somethin’ Bad” is featured on Miranda’s latest album, titled Platinum — and in the cool-deal department, the album is on sale through September 4th for only $6.99 on iTunes.

  Carrie Underwood talks about her duet with Miranda Lambert on the song “Somethin’ Bad.” (:52)
“The song ‘Somethin’ Bad,’ I mean I remember when Miranda sent me an e-mail kind of asking if I wanted to maybe be in on this really cool song she heard. And I don’t check my e-mail on a daily basis (laughs); it took me a couple days to actually get back to her. But I was…I love the song. It started out as kind of a guy/girl duet, so obviously we both knew that there had to be some lyric changes goin’ on. But I love the song. It’s such a rockin’ vibe and something that I could just really easily imagine us being in the studio and being on stage together and really just making something special out of it and having fun with the audience and just having fun with it. It’s not, you know, anything heavy and serious, which we definitely could have gone that way, and may still in the future some day, but I think we both just wanted to kind of just go have fun and be two strong women on stage singin’ together.”