Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks are one of music's exemplary couples — drama is typically at a minimum with these two.
But the gloves appear to be off after Brooks used a song on his new Man Against Machine album — due tomorrow, Nov. 11 — that Yearwood coveted for her own collection.
"It's called 'Tacoma,'" she told The Boot. "It should be mine. It's one of those things where, usually when another artist records a song, you're like, 'OK, it's over,' but even if that's a single, if that's a big hit for him, I'm still going to record that song one day. It's my song."
Brooks made "Tacoma" the final song on the new album, a spot he typically reserves for his favorite tune.
"I think it's just to add insult to injury," Yearwood said. "He knows how much I love it! ... We're not fighting over it, but I really do love that song, and I would love to record it myself some day."
Yearwood said the two try to keep their music careers separate from their personal lives when they are home together.
"Well, I mean, I live with the most successful artist in music," she said. "But we try really hard to keep the things about the music business, our conversations, separate from our lives all the time. So we try the rule of, if you don't want my advice, don't ask for it ... but I do, I do run things up the flagpole with him because he's so smart, and he has great ideas, and he'll think of something that I never thought of."
Her own PrizeFighter greatest hits collection is out Nov. 17, and it is her first album since 2007′s Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love, but she says the long break was not intentional.
"You don't finish an album and then go, 'OK, now I'm going to wait seven years before I do another one,'" she said. "I did that album, and I was living in Oklahoma, it was hard to do, I did a little bit of a tour around it, but we were really in the middle of raising our girls, and I just realized it was hard to do."
Here is a video of Yearwood and Kelly Clarkson performing their "Prize Fighter" single:
