Trisha Yearwood - "How Do I Live"

[someguy]

One of the biggest controversies in 1990s country music was "How Do I Live".

The accepted version is this:

The producers of Con Air were given the song "How Do I Live", written by Dianne Warren, for the movie. They asked LeAnn Rimes to record the song. The movie producers didn't love LeAnn's version, thinking she was too young to convey the emotion needed for the song. They looked around, and finally settled on Trisha Yearwood to do the song.

Trisha's version was approved for Con Air. However Mike Curb, LeAnn's label head at the time. did not accept the decision. He released LeAnn's anyway, and the two versions competed. LeAnn's ended up being a huge pop hit, while Trisha's is the version that country radio gravitated to.

[jenglisbe]

Yeah that's the story I've heard, too, though I didn't know it was controversial.

I definitely prefer Trisha's vocal.

[someguy]

Jul 3, 2021 5:48:33 GMT -5 jenglisbe said:

Yeah that's the story I've heard, too, though I didn't know it was controversial.

I definitely prefer Trisha's vocal.

There was certainly some animosity in Nashville over LeAnn/Curb’s decision to release the single.

[Troublemaker]

Small trivia: right after LeAnn's performance of said song at the 1998 Grammys, Trisha won for Best Female Country Vocal Performance (both were nominated for the same song).

[🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲]

The only song I really like and familiar with by her.

[disman00911]

I'm more used to the LeAnn Rimes version and it was always confusing that two different artists had hits with the same song at the same time.