Steve GannIs Carly Simon Finally Going To Tell Us Who Is So Vain?
February 26th 2010 21:49
From the Showbiz411 blog:
"For years, Carly Simon has teased the public that “You’re So Vain,” her signature record, was about Warren Beatty. She always said the character– who flew his Lear Jet to Nova Scotia “to see a total eclipse of the sun” — was a combination of egotistic former dates.
Now, Simon has re-recorded “You’re So Vain” in an “unplugged” style for a new album called “Never Been Gone.” As a nod of the hat to the Beatles, Carly says the word “David” backwards as a red herring. She’s let it slip that it might be a clue about the song’s real-life inspiration.
The British papers decided this must be David Geffen. They stole that idea from a blog by Brandon Kim posted last November here.
Brandon Kim made a mistake, and the Brits followed it. Listen to me carefully: He said that Simon was mad at Geffen because he ran her record company and paid too much attention to labelmate Joni Mitchell.
Wrong.
David Geffen had nothing to do with Carly Simon in 1972. He ran Asylum Records. She was on Elektra. Jac Holzman ran Elektra and was in charge of the album “No Secrets” and the song “You’re So Vain.”
While the Huffington Post added this:
While Simon does whisper "David" backwards, as reported below, she supposedly also whispers the name "Warren" backwards elsewhere on the same album redo. Also, Simon reportedly wasn't mad at Geffen until two years after "You're so Vain" was recorded.
PREVIOUSLY:
According to an interpretation of a clip of a remastered version of "You're So Vain," Carly Simon named David Geffen as the target of the song.
When the song is played backwards, at least as heard in the clip, a voice whispers "David."
Geffen was the head of Simon's record label at the time, and was supposedly paying more attention to Joni Mitchell.
That would mean it is not about exes Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger or Kris Krisofferson.
For years I thought that it was probably about James Taylor now I think it is probably a combination of all of her exes, and of course a way to see more CDs.
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