2006-10-11 12:10:44 · 23 answers · asked by donh 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Despite these guesses and many interviews asking who it was, to this day Carly Simon has never publicly acknowledged in full whom the song is about. She commented in an interview that it was about "many vain men I've known in my life".
read more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_So_Vain
2006-10-11 12:13:36 · answer #1 · answered by Rumncoke916 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
USA Today - June, 2005
"It's about Mark Felt!" Simon, 59, joked by phone Wednesday from her home in Martha's Vineyard, referring to the former FBI official who has said he was Deep Throat. You're So Vain was a No. 1 hit in January 1973, six months after the Watergate break-in that led to President Nixon's downfall.
But unlike the Watergate principals, Simon says she'll never reveal the answer, not even when she or the song's subject dies. "I don't see why I ever would. What would it advance? I wrote that song in the days when people kept confidences to themselves, whereas now, people expose them so easily and readily for the benefit of their next movie sale."
She finds it "bizarre" that fans are still speculating about her lyrics three decades later. "If people knew who it was to begin with, it might not have become a hit."
2006-10-11 19:17:08 · answer #2 · answered by a1bengal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was it Mick Jagger? Cat Stevens? Warren Beatty? Kris Kristofferson? It was common knowledge that she had been involved with each of them in the past.
Carly has never revealed who she had in mind when she wrote You're So Vain, and over 30 years later interviewers are still asking her this same question........
2006-10-11 19:25:15 · answer #3 · answered by justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Warren Beatty
2006-10-11 19:12:08 · answer #4 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
these have all been possibles
Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson, fiancé William Donaldson, ex-husband James Taylor.
2006-10-11 19:18:16 · answer #5 · answered by mj r 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mick Jagger! His ego (and vanity) is so big hes even singing backup on this song (though hes not credited) about himself. Listen closely and you will recognize his voice.
2006-10-11 20:09:35 · answer #6 · answered by Stratobratster 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She refuses to say. Read this website for some fun interviews:
http://www.carlysimon.com/vain/vain.htm
2006-10-11 19:13:35 · answer #7 · answered by Nass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possible guys are:
Warren Beatty
Cat Stevens (yes, they were an item)
Mick Jagger (he sings background on it)
2006-10-11 19:11:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
james taylor!
he cheated on her all the time! which made him very vain in her eyes...what a way to get back at him...telling him he's so vain to the entire world. HAH!
2006-10-11 19:13:23 · answer #9 · answered by Deberah*Harry 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James Taylor her longtime lover and at one time husband
2006-10-11 19:23:28 · answer #10 · answered by jhash61 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋