Miranda Lambert is an amazing entertainer — whether you’re enjoying the music from one of her albums or seeing her on TV or in concert — and being able to help people escape their worries for a little while is what Miranda sees as the heart of her job. “That’s what entertainment is for,” she says. “You don’t go to a movie because you want to sit there through the whole thing and think about everything horrible in your life.” And music is the same way. “I think people come to a concert because they want to cut loose for two hours…and my job is to try to make people have fun.” (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• And speaking of big-time entertainment, it’ll make you rock out, laugh out loud, or get you right in the heart, and it’s Miranda’s ACM Album of the Year winner, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which includes the big hits “Famous in a Small Town,” “Gunpowder & Lead,” and her latest chartbuster, the gorgeous “More Like Her.”

  Miranda Lambert sees her job as helping people forget their worries for a while. (:25)
“People don’t want to think about it. That’s what entertainment is for. You don’t go to a movie because you want to sit there through the whole thing and think about everything horrible in your life. You go so you can get your mind off of it. And I think people come to concerts because they want to cut loose for two hours of their life and drink a beer and listen to music and just be out of the problems, because they have to deal with that seven days a week. And my job is to try to make people have fun and not think about that stuff.”