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.