Trisha Yearwood and LeAnn Rimes touched off rumors of a so-called "feud" when they released competing versions of the same song on the exact same day. According to a new television show, however, it wasn't actually their idea.
Rimes and Yearwood each ended up having huge success with their separate recordings of "How Do I Live," a Diane Warren-written song that Rimes — who was, at that time, still a teen country sensation — was first to record, for the 1997 Nicholas Cage film
Con Air.
As an upcoming new episode of the AXS TV show
Music's Greatest Mysteries reveals, it was the film's producers who decided that having an underage teenage girl perform the song as part of an R-rated film was inappropriate. That's why they approached Yearwood, who cut her own version of the song.