2007-02-08 10:11:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
One of three people. Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, or her ex husband James Taylor. She is very slowly giving away clues.
Maybe on her deathbed she will tell us.
2007-02-08 10:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In January of 1973, You're So Vain was the # 1 hit song on the radio. Carly had just married fellow pop-superstar James Taylor a month before, so when You're So Vain hit the airwaves, it stirred intense curiosity about which one of her previous lovers was the subject of this wry nod to the male ego. click here to read the lyrics 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........ You're So Vain - The original song that started it all. Rolling Stone - 1973 RS: Some people think "You're So Vain" is about James. Carly: No, it's definitely not about James, although James suspected that it might be about him because he's very vain. No, he isn't, but he had the unfortunate experience of taking a jet up to Nova Scotia after I’d written the song. He was saved by the fact that it wasn’t a Lear. RS: You mentioned the "contest" going on about who it's about. What would be the clearest statement you would want to make on who the song was about? Carly: The contest is run by this man in Los Angeles named Winkler, and he had his listeners call in to cast their ballot as to who they thought the song was about. Kris Kristofferson is leading. A lot of people think it's about Mick Jagger and that I have fooled him into actually singing on it, that I pulled that ruse. And some of the people think it's about James. But I can't possibly tell who it's about because it wouldn't be fair.
2016-05-23 22:42:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carly put it about that she'd written the song about Warren Beatty - but in truth; she wrote it after the break up between her and Mick Jagger...then got the ultimate revenge by making up the "Warren Beatty" story and getting Mick Jagger to sing backing vocals on the single!
Ok Ok I'll admit that I copy and pasted this answer from a similar previous question. I don't know anything about the song or Carly Simon's love life. Sorry
2007-02-08 10:15:20 · answer #3 · answered by Nikki 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nobody knows.... people seem to think it was McJagger though. She only gives letters of the name of the guy she wrote it about. So far she's given 3 I think.
2007-02-08 10:15:01 · answer #4 · answered by lexi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one really knows. I remember that once it was auctioned that she would tell someone about it and i dont think that person ever told.
2007-02-08 10:19:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
she has many possibilities here.
james taylor
mick jagger
warren beatty
? who knows?
2007-02-08 10:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I heard it was mick jagger
2007-02-08 10:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by andy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋