Earlier this week, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood were announced to perform together on the upcoming CMT Music Awards, where they’ll sing their duet, “Somethin’ Bad,” from Miranda’s June 3rd album release, titled Platinum. And with the awards being a fan-voted honor, Miranda — who is this year’s top nominee with six nominations — recently remarked that it doesn’t matter who likes your work unless it’s the fans. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Be sure to vote for all of your favorite nominees, online now through June 1st at midnight, ET, on CMT.com and at CMT Mobile, with the six finalists for Video of the Year announced on the morning of June 4th, so that fans can vote all day and throughout the live telecast (ET/CT only) at CMT.com, CMT mobile, and via text message to determine the winner. From Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena, the 2014 CMT Music Awards will air Wednesday, June 4th, at 8pm, ET, on CMT and CMT.com.
• Pre-order Miranda’s June 3rd album, Platinum, here on iTunes, and get her current smash “Automatic” and the Carrie Underwood duet, “Somethin’ Bad,” immediately as instant-grat tracks!

  Miranda Lambert talks about the fans and fan-voted honors like the upcoming CMT Music Awards. (:54)
“If fans don’t buy the music and don’t buy into who you are, then we don’t have a career. There’s no reason to keep going. Change directions immediately (laughs) ’cause it’s not working anymore. So, when anything is fan voted or fans come up to you and say, ‘This song helped me through…’ whatever, that’s when you know you’re still doin’ somethin’ right. And so, hearin’, like, the CMT Awards, bein’ a top nominee, it’s just like, ‘Okay, I still got it!’ (laughs) You know, I feel like. I hadn’t had a record out in a while, and just knowin’ that Four the Record carried me through three years, and the fans are still votin’ me through on videos from that record and still appreciating what I’m doin’, it means a lot. You know? And that they’re still relating to me with the videos that we’re doin’, and you know, I still am in touch with them and what they want from me. And that’s the most important thing of all. None of this matters if the fans don’t want to hear it anymore.”