8 Things You Don't Know About Miranda Lambert

1 Coming after the similarly vengeful ''Kerosene,'' Crazy's title track struck radio folks as too controversial. But they're fine with ''Famous in a Small Town'' — probably because ''it doesn't talk about killing anybody or setting anybody on fire,'' Lambert says.

2 ''Family-values'' country? Not for her: ''I don't write about angels, Jesus, happy days, kids. I grew up on drinkin', cheatin', love gone bad...''

3 Still, ''if you listen to my records, my theme is really love. Even with 'Dry Town' — I mean, I love beer!''

4 Alt-country faves Gillian Welch and David Rawlings penned ''Dry Town,'' yet Lambert says,''I lived that song. It's 30 miles to the nearest beer'' from her native Lindale, Tex.

5 Lambert was no wild child. ''My parents are PIs. If I tried to sneak out, they were waiting when I got there.''

6 She has a concealed-gun license, ''but I don't think I'll ever actually shoot anybody. I have this image of being hardcore, but I'm just a 23-year-old going through everything any other girl would go through.''

7 Her dad calls her ''the ice princess'' for her cool attitude post-breakups. ''I'm very hot or cold. Once I love somebody, I give all my heart. But if somebody hurts me, I'm done.''

8 She and current steady Blake Shelton, 30, both have CDs out May 1. ''I told him I was gonna kick his butt [on the charts].'' For his sake, she'd better. ''Poor Blake. I tell him, 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' could be your life story, so just know that.''