Music Review

''How Do I Live''

Reviewed by Alanna Nash | Jul 11, 1997
EW's GRADE
C

Trisha Yearwood and LeAnn Rimes have been battling it out on radio with their recordings of Diane Warren's theme from Con Air. Rimes' lush version of ''How Do I Live'' was rejected from the movie at the last moment and replaced with Yearwood's countrier rendition, and it's easy to see why: When Yearwood sings, ''If you ever leave/Baby, you would take away everything good in my life,'' her voice throbs with adult emotion. Wunderkind Rimes, on the other hand, might as well be addressing her puppy. C

Originally posted May 23, 2008 Published in issue #387 Jul 11, 1997 Order article reprints

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