Picture this: it’s 1997 and you hear LeAnn Rimes’ “How Do I Live” on the radio. Minutes later, you hear the same exact song, only that it has a different arrangement and is sung by a different vocalist, Trisha Yearwood, to be precise.
It’s exactly what happened that year, when both singers released the Diane Warren-penned song. According to Entertainment Weekly, Disney commissioned the songwriter to compose a track for the film “Con Air,” which producer Tony Brown first offered to Rimes, who was 15 years old at the time. But the studio was dissatisfied with her version and offered it to Yearwood instead, who was far more established then. Yearwood’s rendition ended up being part of the film, but things got complicated when Rimes’ label apparently got too attached to the project and decided to release her version anyway (via Rolling Stone).
Read Related Also: Ashy Bines lashes out at trolls who shamed her for leaving daughter at home
To make the situation more awkward, both versions got nominated for a Grammy. Rimes performed the song on stage at the award show, but Yearwood took the trophy home. However, Rimes’ cover was the fan-favorite, having spent a whopping 69 weeks on the charts, per Billboard. Funnily enough, Yearwood wasn’t even initially aware that someone else had recorded the same track. “he Nashville rule is, if somebody has a song on hold, you don’t record it,” she told The Chicago Tribune. “But in this case I didn’t think she (Rimes) had any kind of permission to do that, so I wasn’t worried about it.”
