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letstalkprints wrote:Don't know if this is a pet peeve but it bugs me. The Carly Simon song "You're So Vain". If you're not familiar with the song she sings "you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you". Well, whoever she is singing the song about is not vain because the song freaking is about them. Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
LOL. They may still be vain though.
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letstalkprints wrote:Don't know if this is a pet peeve but it bugs me. The Carly Simon song "You're So Vain". If you're not familiar with the song she sings "you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you". Well, whoever she is singing the song about is not vain because the song freaking is about them. Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
...that's the point...

That Carly hadn't said who the song was about for the longest time (it's Warren Beatty), means that anybody who knows Carly Simon may very well have thought she in fact wrote it about them. So, it could have not be about one person, but instead, many.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:14 pm

Supposedly only the second verse is about that duke.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:23 pm

Think the "you" changes from general to specific throughout. Either way, Mick Jagger sings a pretty mean backup.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:42 pm

Chorus is general, verses are specific.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:49 pm

You're so vain.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:49 pm

Reznor used the line (guess he was paying homage?) in his "Starfuckers, Inc." song from The Fragile (aka the best album of all time...), which was undoubtedly about Marilyn Manson. I like it precisely because of that intentional (unavoidable) accusation. It's sort of the point. :D
All our pain
How did we ever get by without you?
You're so vain
I bet you think this song is about you

Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
Don't you?
So it goes...
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 9:59 pm

Remember reading that the Carly/Manson bloodfeud nearly took the lives of Dan Fogelberg and Jim Messina one night. On a yacht.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:01 pm

letstalkprints wrote:Don't know if this is a pet peeve but it bugs me. The Carly Simon song "You're So Vain". If you're not familiar with the song she sings "you're so vain, you probably think this song is about you". Well, whoever she is singing the song about is not vain because the song freaking is about them. Whew. Glad I got that off my chest.
That has bugged the ever-loving fudge out of me since the 70's. It's Warren Beatty, by the way; and the song is, abso drymounting lutely, about him.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:08 pm

No. I'm sorry, but you're wrong. It isn't about Warren. It's about me, Steve Perry.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:12 pm

fredo wrote:No. I'm sorry, but you're wrong. It isn't about Warren. It's about me, Steve Perry.
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It's about you.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:17 pm

Obvs about James Taylor.
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:19 pm

Does anybody even know who James Taylor is anymore?
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:24 pm

DonPiano wrote:Does anybody even know who James Taylor is anymore?
I love James Taylor
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:29 pm

I like the guy quite a lot, but he's not talked about anymore, which is sad.
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