| Carly Simon – You're So Vain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Carly Simon has never publicly acknowledged in full who the song is about. She commented in an interview that it was about "many vain men I've known in my life." In a 1989 interview, Simon acknowledged that the song is a little bit about Beatty but said that the subject of the song is ***a composite** of three men from her L.A. days. [1] Simon made another comment about the subject's identity as a guest artist on Janet Jackson's 2001 single, "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)," which sampled "You're So Vain." In the song, Simon says "The apricot scarf was worn by Nick/there's nothing in the words that refer to Mick." Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports and a friend of Simon, was the highest bidder for a Martha's Vineyard Possible Dreams charity auction offering in which the prize was the revelation of the person that "You're So Vain" was about. After making the winning bid of $50,000, Ebersol was given a private performance of the song at Simon's home. After a lunch of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and vodka on the rocks, Simon whispered the subject into his ear. A condition of that prize is that Ebersol would not reveal to anyone the actual subject. Later, Ebersol revealed that he was allowed by Simon to divulge a clue about the person's name: "Carly told me that I could offer up to the entire world, a clue as to what she'll tell me when we have this night in about two weeks. And the clue is: The letter 'E' is in the person's name."[2] In 2004, Simon told Regis Philbin, "If I tell it, it's going to come out in dribs and drabs. And I've given out two letters already, an "A" and an "E." But I'm going to add one to it. I'm going to add an "R," in honor of you." (If Simon was not being flip, then of the above guesses, Jagger, Beatty, and Taylor would remain as potential candidates; Stevens, Kristofferson, and Donaldson are all missing one or more of the requisite letters. If she is referring to the first name, then Warren Beatty is the only potential candidate). Shortly before the writing of the song, Simon was married to James Taylor. She later admitted that he was not the subject of the song. Several days after the identity of Watergate-era press source Deep Throat was revealed during the summer of 2005, a USA Today reporter asked Simon to name the subject of her song. Simon exclaimed with a laugh that it was "about Mark Felt!", who revealed himself as the legendary Watergate source. [3] During a 2006 interview for the Sunday Life Magazine insert, Simon was asked what music she would pack for a long, presumably secluded vacation. Her response was that it would be something by The Rolling Stones; "I'd want something like 'Angie'." In Backstage Passes (1993), Angela Bowie claims to be the subject of the song "Angie" as well as the 'wife of a close friend' in "You're So Vain," that the two had been very close and Mick had, for a time, been 'obsessed' with her. Recently, Beatty admitted that he in fact believes he is the subject of the song, saying: "Let's be honest. That song was about me." [4] However, the speculation continues, with many fans considering it more of a general, rather than specific, indictment of vanity. In 2005, Simon's husband Jim Hart said that the song was not about anyone famous.[5] On Thursday, June 19, 2008, Howard Stern claimed Carly privately revealed who the song was written about to him after her interview on his popular radio show heard on Sirius Satellite Radio. Stern commented "There is an odd aspect to it". "He's not that vain." |
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| Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – I-Spy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Those lyrics up there are WRONG, so that may be leading some misconception. The lyrics say: And I spy with my little eye something that begins with 'I have just', I have just begin to realize. That all my favorite songs Regardless of style or structure are sing alongs. Why don't you sing along? |
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