Among Carrie Underwood’s CMA Awards nominations this year is Female Vocalist of the Year — and while Carrie is one of the most amazing vocalists of any year, she says that she doesn’t go out of her way to choose vocally challenging songs, but sometimes it just works out that way! (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Carrie’s incredible new single is “Something in the Water,” from her December 9th album, Greatest Hits: Decade #1. The album is available for pre-order now on Amazon.
• Be sure to watch for Carrie and her CMA Awards co-host Brad Paisley as they’re interviewed on Monday’s edition of ABC’s The View!

  Carrie Underwood says that challenging songs can make for cool songs in concert. (:39)
“I’m not really sure why I continue to write (laughs) and pick songs that are really difficult vocally. You’d think I’d give myself a break occasionally. It’s never a plan when we go in to make things difficult, vocally, or challenging or anything, but it’s kind of like, ‘I got this many notes to work with. We might as well (laughs) use as many of ’em as possible!’ So it just kind of happens. I’m gonna…yeah, I’m gonna probably be hatin’ myself when I’m takin’ some of these songs out on tour, but, in the end, it just…it makes for a lot of really, really fun energy and fun moments.”