Agree, Roll back time, I recall hearing this song dedicated one weekend on the radio to a friend of mine who just broke up with his GF of 3 years. (Ouch!)
Asia & BJ, you’ll love her “Nobody Does It Better”, “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain” and “You Belong To Me”!!!! edit- She's plays piano and guitar, great singer/songwriter!!
I think her best song is "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." "Nobody Does it Better" is my favorite Bond song. If they do it, they need to do the video with the clip from the movie.
She wrote it about three different men she had relationships with, one was Warren Beatty, but she wouldn’t name the other two. She had been married to James Taylor, but she denied that one of the men was him. It’s a great song!
"Haven't Got Time For The Pain", "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor), and "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" are all great Carly Simon songs.
Little bit of trivia regarding this song: Mick Jagger sings backup on the "Don't you" chorus. Listen for it, and you'll never unhear it. His voice is quite clear on it.
My first favorite song and artist...still love Carly!!!!! She has lots of great songs...Anticipation, Haven't Got Time For The Pain, Nobody Does It Better, You Belong To Me, No Secrets, Mockingbird to name a few
GREAT REACTION guys! I've seen other people react to this song and totally miss that line about "the wife of a close friend" but Asia totally caught it and BJ noticed it too! 👏 Love how you guys pay attention to lyrics. ❤
A Carly Simon classic, with some backing vocal assistance from Rollings Stones frontman, Mick Jaggar! She wrote so many good ones. More for you to listen to.
carly is lamenting about being naively young when she fell for a suave, self-absorbed, vain man of considerable means/wealth - race horse owner at saratoga springs, takes private jet to nova scotia, is always where he's "supposed to be"/where the scene is. bj, the kicker that asia is talking about is if he's not there then he's with the wife of a close friend 😏 the line "clouds in my coffee" was supposedly struck when she was on a plane and noticed the reflection of the clouds were like cream in her coffee. carly's incredible word painting of this song is gorgeous ❤
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" You're So Vain " is a song written in 1971 by Carly Simon and released in November 1972. It is one of the songs with which Simon is most identified, and upon its release, reached No. 1 in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The song is ranked at No. 92 on Billboard 's Greatest Songs of All Time.
Janet Jackson used it In one of her songs Think it was called Son Of A Gun The song is about a actual person The best bet was Warren Beatty . She auction off your name of the person for charity But they had to sign a legal agreement they could never tell who it was .
Plenty of tunes to check out from Carly, plenty of great selections in the comments. If you dig on Carly, you must give another woman from the 70's a try - Carol King, you can do the entire album Tapestry, the whole album is awesome.
Simon wrote it. Supposedly it's a composite of three men, one of whom is Warren Beatty. And rumor is that the "wife of a close friend" was David Bowie's wife at the time.
The last analysis I heard on this was that they were Warren Beatty, James Taylor, and David Geffen. But no one has ever agreed on anyone except Beatty.
Back in 2010, MSM reported that Carly Simon had revealed the name of the person the song is about. On her album "Never Been Gone," Simon whispers a name during an instrumental break. The name is "David." Who could this be? Suspects include; David Geffen who founded Asylum records in 1971. Simon was with Elektra which merged with Asylum in 1972 and Geffen was put in charge. You're So Vain was released in 1972. Other David's of the era and in Simon's orbit are David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and David Cassidy of The Partridge Family fame. Warren Beatty's mother was from Nova Scotia but no-one has been able to confirm if he flew his LearJet there to view a total eclipse of the sun. Also, another clue is found in a racehorse winning. My preference is toward David Geffen, as he's within her immediate circle. In the 70's everyone believed Mick Jagger or Warren Beatty, but Jagger's voice could be clearly heard on backing vocals (Jagger was a prolific backing singer, he is very generous with his time) and so is unlikely. Beatty was world famous for his vanity alone and so he held the highest rank of likely suspects.
I think that line about "YOU THINK THIS song is about you" is clever -- because it actually IS! It proves her point and dares him (whoever he is) to deny it. BRILLIANT
This was a personal song that Carly wrote about her experience with an actual person. So if anyone remade this song, they are a sad person. More than likely it was about Warren Beatty who played Clyde in the movie "Bonne and Clyde" a real block buster. And he was quite the "Player" back in the day. 🤔😎
"...flying to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun".. When this song was NEW, that year, Nova Scotia was "ground zero" to get the best view of the Eclipse. Memories. I like watching y'all.
Carley was a songwriter. All of the songs she did were her own. She did the music for a movie called Working Girl with Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffeth, and Sigourney Weaver
This is the all time, BEST F-YOU SONGS EVER!!! Love Mick singing in it. I guess Warren Beatty slept with one of his girlfriends. BEST!!! Plus the song rocks.
The Classic opening bass riff is played by Klaus Voormann. Carly credits Klaus for setting the table for the songs vibe. Klaus is most famous for designing the album cover for the Beatles 1966 masterpiece "Revolver'. Which Klaus won a Grammy Award. Klaus ran in the Beatles inner circle starting back in October of 1960. Two years before Ringo joined and 3 years before Beatlemania exploded in the United Kingdom. Klaus has recorded on many solo Beatles songs and remains their life long friend. RNB
The story goes that this was about Warren Beatty he was a huge star in the 60's and the 70's and quite the "hunk" at that time. lol...Warren was in lots of classic movies.
Funny thing about this song: women really relate to the singer, 😪 while guys secretly want to BE that suave, cool love-rat . . . 😎 The guys really do know that the song is about the heartless, elegant guy. . . . 😜
Ohhh… have ya looked at photos of Warren Beatty back in the day? Have mercy! Yes there are parts of the song about him. He starred in the movie, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Played gigolo to older women. Biography? And the movie Splendor in the Grass. Not an award winning actor but he was pretty. Yes he was a huge playboy and vain. But women lined up for his affections so …. ? After you complain? Who creates that kind of man? Silly women. Sorry Carly!
You probably have heard it or parts of it. The song has been covered more than 20 times and sampled more than 10 times. It is not about 1 person. Each verse is about a different guy. Supposedly the 2nd verse is about Warren Beatty.
This is every Taylor Swift song concisely put across in 3 minutes. I think this song goes up there into every songwriter's "wish I would have wrote this song" category.
This is perhaps the most ironic song in history - Sorry, Alanis Morissette - because "You probably think this song is about you" … well, it kind of IS about the 3 people she was singing about. It isn't solely about any one of the three, but each verse is about a different one and then the chorus after goes with the verse. It's why this is one of my favorite songs-the sheer irony of it all.
Faster Pussycat did a cover of this song during the hair metal days. Mick Jagger is singing backing vocals on the chorus which is ironic because many thought the song's lyrics were about him.
Each verse is about someone different. Likely identities include Mick Jagger, James Taylor and actor Warren Beatty. Warren was certain the song was about him. Jagger sang background on the song and Carly was married to James Taylor.
Carly is such a beautiful and talented singer/songwriter. My favorite song of her's is That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be. Henry Lewis Gates explores her Caribbean slave ancestry on his genealogy show "Finding Your Roots." It's a great show about a great talent and a reminder that life is complicated.
Janet Jackson had a song called Son of a Gun and she sampled You're So Vain. She's also one of only a few people to know who Carly was actually singing about.
Always had pride in this song, cause I am from and still live in Nova Scotia. A few videos ago Asia said she would like to go to Canada. If the opportunity comes up, my wife and I would be happy to put you up and show you some of the beauty and hospitality of the area. Love your chemistry you two rock, keep up the great vids!
For some reason I always get such a great feeling when the next generation appreciates the music I listened to when I was a kid.
how about older people appreciating the great music of today? seems like that is somewhat rarer....
Agree, Roll back time, I recall hearing this song dedicated one weekend on the radio to a friend of mine who just broke up with his GF of 3 years. (Ouch!)
ABSOLUTELY... I HAVE A LIST OF SONGS I'D LOVE FOR THESE TWO TO HEAR 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
lol they are just making money they act stupid about music so you can school them
@@arlo2203 most people of any age understand very little about anything
You'll never unhear it when you do, but, that is Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones singing in the background with Carly.
It's very cool - amazing choice to have him do it uncredited
Jagger had to be sticking it to one of his rivals in the vanity derby.
Rumoured it was Warren Beattie.
Taylor Swift has nothing on Carly Simon… this is the greatest “fuck you” song ever written 🤣
Carly Simon would beat down Swift for looking at her !!!.
@@justincredible9187 Carly Simon joined Taylor on her Red tour and they performed this song together. 🤷🏻♀️
@@cara65 Carly beat her backstage 😋
They're both great and two totally different artists??
do better.
That's Mick Jagger on backup vocals.
Power move, he was possibly on of the men she was singing about.
Paul and Linda McCartney on this track too.
@@doomhunter697 I thought that she revealed who it was eventually..
Good catch!
@@doomhunter697 Warren Beatty.
Asia & BJ, you’ll love her “Nobody Does It Better”, “Haven’t Got Time For The Pain” and “You Belong To Me”!!!! edit- She's plays piano and guitar, great singer/songwriter!!
Nobody Does it Better, or the Spy Who Loved Me, is one of my favorite songs!
Agreed!
Also, You Belong to Me was written with Michael McDonald
When I was a teen... Nobody does it better... was a favorite of mine.
I think her best song is "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be." "Nobody Does it Better" is my favorite Bond song. If they do it, they need to do the video with the clip from the movie.
I actually like the reggae-ish "Why", written by Nile Rogers and Bernard Edwards.
You’re thinking of “Son Of A Gun” by Janet Jackson. Early 2000’s and it featured Carly Simon singing the sample. 🌟
Australian band Chocolate Starfish also did a version of this in the early nineties which was hit too.
One of the best remixes of all time, imho.
She wrote it about three different men she had relationships with, one was Warren Beatty, but she wouldn’t name the other two. She had been married to James Taylor, but she denied that one of the men was him. It’s a great song!
Wasn't Mick Jagger thought to be one of them? I don't think she confirmed it though.
@@heliotropezzz333 He sang in the background of the song, but again, when asked, she denied he was one of the three.
You are correct.
Couldn't have been James as they were just getting together when this came out.
@@cheryla7480 Maybe she didn't want to name the other two if they were married at the time.
"Haven't Got Time For The Pain", "Mockingbird" (with James Taylor), and "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be" are all great Carly Simon songs.
"It's Too Late" is Carole King...
@@jonathanlocke6404 My bad. You're right.
“Mocking Bird”, LIVE with Sweet Baby James.😉
@@deborahstrickland9845 Love it!!
“You gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me…”
Saddest line ever written.
I think " Wish I didn't know now what I didbt know then" is the saddest... Bob Seger
@@Godlovesyouneway”god have mercy on the man who doubts what he’s sure of…”
"When you ain't got nothin, you got nothin to lose." Bob Dylan
It's a cold hard world, that's the truth.
Yes she is the original song writer of this song and all of her songs.
Written in 1971 and released in 1972. Mick Jagger singing with her too.
George Harrison doing lead in the bridge.
Little bit of trivia regarding this song:
Mick Jagger sings backup on the "Don't you" chorus.
Listen for it, and you'll never unhear it.
His voice is quite clear on it.
My first favorite song and artist...still love Carly!!!!! She has lots of great songs...Anticipation, Haven't Got Time For The Pain, Nobody Does It Better, You Belong To Me, No Secrets, Mockingbird to name a few
Think they are old enough to not know Anticipation was not a Ketchup commercial jingle?
GREAT REACTION guys! I've seen other people react to this song and totally miss that line about "the wife of a close friend" but Asia totally caught it and BJ noticed it too! 👏 Love how you guys pay attention to lyrics. ❤
That’s Mick Jagger on back up vocals.
I beleive this song is about Warren Beatty the actor....
It is.
Carly's (final) admission just a few years ago-verse 1 about Warren Beatty and verse 2 about record producer David Geffen. Great song!
James taylor
Everyone has said that for 3 decades.
She wrote this and many more great songs
I heard she wrote this song about Warren Beatty. And I can just imagine he was full of himself.
You might like "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be."
Check out her “Anticipation “ and see if you recognize that from somewhere.
A Carly Simon classic, with some backing vocal assistance from Rollings Stones frontman, Mick Jaggar! She wrote so many good ones. More for you to listen to.
Mick really sounds good in this just like Kenny Rogers Lionel ritchies My love, Phil Collins in Howard Jones No one is to blame.
One of Carly Simon’s best songs and definitely deserves to be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
carly is lamenting about being naively young when she fell for a suave, self-absorbed, vain man of considerable means/wealth - race horse owner at saratoga springs, takes private jet to nova scotia, is always where he's "supposed to be"/where the scene is.
bj, the kicker that asia is talking about is if he's not there then he's with the wife of a close friend 😏
the line "clouds in my coffee" was supposedly struck when she was on a plane and noticed the reflection of the clouds were like cream in her coffee. carly's incredible word painting of this song is gorgeous ❤
Years later, Carly Simon said the song was about Warren Beatty.
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Carly is one of the best story tellers, singer-song writers ever. Love her!
" You're So Vain " is a song written in 1971 by Carly Simon and released in November 1972. It is one of the songs with which Simon is most identified, and upon its release, reached No. 1 in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The song is ranked at No. 92 on Billboard 's Greatest Songs of All Time.
Janet Jackson used it In one of her songs Think it was called Son Of A Gun
The song is about a actual person The best bet was Warren Beatty . She auction off your name of the person for charity But they had to sign a legal agreement they could never tell who it was .
Nobody mentions that it's George Harrison doing the lead guitar in the bridge part. :(
Her live duet with James Taylor Mockingbird is so awesome
Plenty of tunes to check out from Carly, plenty of great selections in the comments. If you dig on Carly, you must give another woman from the 70's a try - Carol King, you can do the entire album Tapestry, the whole album is awesome.
Simon wrote it. Supposedly it's a composite of three men, one of whom is Warren Beatty. And rumor is that the "wife of a close friend" was David Bowie's wife at the time.
The last analysis I heard on this was that they were Warren Beatty, James Taylor, and David Geffen. But no one has ever agreed on anyone except Beatty.
@@n5ilnShe has said JT wasn't one of them.
Back in 2010, MSM reported that Carly Simon had revealed the name of the person the song is about. On her album "Never Been Gone," Simon whispers a name during an instrumental break. The name is "David." Who could this be? Suspects include; David Geffen who founded Asylum records in 1971. Simon was with Elektra which merged with Asylum in 1972 and Geffen was put in charge. You're So Vain was released in 1972. Other David's of the era and in Simon's orbit are David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and David Cassidy of The Partridge Family fame. Warren Beatty's mother was from Nova Scotia but no-one has been able to confirm if he flew his LearJet there to view a total eclipse of the sun. Also, another clue is found in a racehorse winning. My preference is toward David Geffen, as he's within her immediate circle. In the 70's everyone believed Mick Jagger or Warren Beatty, but Jagger's voice could be clearly heard on backing vocals (Jagger was a prolific backing singer, he is very generous with his time) and so is unlikely. Beatty was world famous for his vanity alone and so he held the highest rank of likely suspects.
The #1 classic dis song in the world
Closely following by most of Fleetwood mac's work.
Ms Simon has said it’s about Warren Beatty and two others not named
I think that line about "YOU THINK THIS song is about you" is clever -- because it actually IS! It proves her point and dares him (whoever he is) to deny it. BRILLIANT
This was a personal song that Carly wrote about her experience with an actual person. So if anyone remade this song, they are a sad person. More than likely it was about Warren Beatty who played Clyde in the movie "Bonne and Clyde" a real block buster. And he was quite the "Player" back in the day. 🤔😎
Or maybe Kris Kristofferson Who Too was a big time player,very bright mans, who was full of himself.
@@joelliebler5690 Wow, this is my first time hearing of Kris Kristofferson maybe involved. Learn something new everyday I guess. Thanks for the share.
"...flying to Nova Scotia, to see the total eclipse of the sun".. When this song was NEW, that year, Nova Scotia was "ground zero" to get the best view of the Eclipse. Memories. I like watching y'all.
My mother's era, pretty cool. I grew up listening to her music.
Of course! Us oldies are VERY cool!
My favorite Carly Simon "That's the way I always heard it should be"
Another rumor is that this is about Ted Turner.
It was beady-eyed Beatty.
great reaction you guys!
love: EAR HUSTLE!! haha!!
Mick Jagger doing the backup singing.
Once you hear Mick Jagger singing background, you can’t ever NOT hear it!
PLEASE react to Carly Simon "Coming around again" original video. It's one of my FAVORITE songs ever. ❤️
"...I know nothing stays the same
but if you're willing to play the game...
it'll be coming around again..."
I think that's how the chorus went.
Mick Jagger sings back up vocals.
Mick Jagger on backup vocals
Carley was a songwriter. All of the songs she did were her own. She did the music for a movie called Working Girl with Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffeth, and Sigourney Weaver
I may be wrong but I think this song is about Warren Beatty .
Carly said that verse 2 is about Warren. Verse 1 and 3 are about 2 other men.
You need to check out the new Bill Burr video where he compares backing a cake to an abortion
If you listen hard you can hear Mick Jagger singing backup....
Mick Jagger singing backup. "Don't you, don't you, don't you".
Backing vocals by Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones!
The lyrics in this song are amazing.
"I had some dreams; they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee . . . ." Songwriting genius.
Great song by Carley. It was certainly a vibe back in the day.
MICK JAGGER sings background in this song. When the singers come to the "You're so vain" you can tell its Mick. (More towards to 2nd half of the song.
That’s actually Mick Jagger on background vocals during the chorus.
Rumor was that this song was about Warren Beatty the actor. He was very handsome and a player in his days.
Mick Jagger of the stones in backup
If you listen closely you will hear Mick Jagger singing backup.
Clouds in my coffee...
This is the all time, BEST F-YOU SONGS EVER!!! Love Mick singing in it. I guess Warren Beatty slept with one of his girlfriends. BEST!!!
Plus the song rocks.
The Classic opening bass riff is played by Klaus Voormann. Carly credits Klaus for setting the table for the songs vibe. Klaus is most famous for designing the album cover for the Beatles 1966 masterpiece "Revolver'. Which Klaus won a Grammy Award. Klaus ran in the Beatles inner circle starting back in October of 1960. Two years before Ringo joined and 3 years before Beatlemania exploded in the United Kingdom. Klaus has recorded on many solo Beatles songs and remains their life long friend. RNB
Carly is calling someone in particular out with this song. That is why "wife of a best friend" got into it.
Rumors are it is about James Taylor
This is one of Carly's most popular songs, mostly because everyone loves to speculate about whose she singing about in each of the three verses.
Never piss off a singer songwriter. 🤣 your lameness will be immortalized.
And also this is the affair Carly had with Warren Beatty ....the whole song is about Warren.
The song Is about Warren Beatty. Did you notice Mick Jagger in the background. ?
The story goes that this was about Warren Beatty he was a huge star in the 60's and the 70's and quite the "hunk" at that time. lol...Warren was in lots of classic movies.
70's Classic! The memories! This song was written about Warren Beatty.
Funny thing about this song: women really relate to the singer, 😪 while guys secretly want to BE that suave, cool love-rat . . . 😎
The guys really do know that the song is about the heartless, elegant guy. . . . 😜
Ohhh… have ya looked at photos of Warren Beatty back in the day? Have mercy! Yes there are parts of the song about him. He starred in the movie, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone. Played gigolo to older women. Biography? And the movie Splendor in the Grass. Not an award winning actor but he was pretty. Yes he was a huge playboy and vain. But women lined up for his affections so …. ? After you complain? Who creates that kind of man? Silly women. Sorry Carly!
'Your so vain, you probably think this song is about you'........and yet, it is lol
Ahh, the irony. The song IS about him.
You probably have heard it or parts of it. The song has been covered more than 20 times and sampled more than 10 times. It is not about 1 person. Each verse is about a different guy. Supposedly the 2nd verse is about Warren Beatty.
This is every Taylor Swift song concisely put across in 3 minutes. I think this song goes up there into every songwriter's "wish I would have wrote this song" category.
A very interesting observation!
But so true!!!
This is perhaps the most ironic song in history - Sorry, Alanis Morissette - because "You probably think this song is about you" … well, it kind of IS about the 3 people she was singing about. It isn't solely about any one of the three, but each verse is about a different one and then the chorus after goes with the verse. It's why this is one of my favorite songs-the sheer irony of it all.
She was also married to James Taylor, and sang with him on some of his songs.
Faster Pussycat did a cover of this song during the hair metal days. Mick Jagger is singing backing vocals on the chorus which is ironic because many thought the song's lyrics were about him.
You guys kill me but you prove a point. The man catching the look because of the sins of another 🤣😂🤣
Can you hear Mick Jagger singing backup? ✌️❤️🎶
Yes, Mick Jagger, lead singer of The Rolling Stones, is one of singers on this track.
I remember when this song came out I noticed a very big improvement in the mixing and production of this song compared to all other songs before this.
I believe she was singing about actor Warren Beatty.
"I had some dreams... they were clouds in my coffee..."
Mick Jagger was a backup singer on this track... 😎😎
Check out Nobody Does It Better
I LOVE how specific the verses are in this song...whomever this song was/wasn't about, knew it the second they heard it.
This song is an anthem.
My favorite of hers is "That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be"
Yes mick jagger sings background vocals
Each verse is about someone different. Likely identities include Mick Jagger, James Taylor and actor Warren Beatty. Warren was certain the song was about him. Jagger sang background on the song and Carly was married to James Taylor.
Yep..
Another excellent Carly Simon tune is "Anticipation". For a few years, Heinz used the Chorus of this song in TV commercials for their Ketchup.
The thing is, this song has called out so many people throughout the years (unintentionally or not).. 😏
Hell yeah she wrote the song about Warren Beatty and didn't give a hoot about the thinly veiled references to his identity
I never heard Mick Jagger for years listening to this song... now he's all I hear during the chorus.
Nobody Does It Better and Coming Around Again are goods songs
Carly is such a beautiful and talented singer/songwriter. My favorite song of her's is That's the Way I Always Heard It Should Be. Henry Lewis Gates explores her Caribbean slave ancestry on his genealogy show "Finding Your Roots." It's a great show about a great talent and a reminder that life is complicated.
I was born January 1970, Carly Simon was one of my mom's favorite artists. We heard her a lot at home. This woman is so damn talented!
Janet Jackson had a song called Son of a Gun and she sampled You're So Vain. She's also one of only a few people to know who Carly was actually singing about.
Always had pride in this song, cause I am from and still live in Nova Scotia. A few videos ago Asia said she would like to go to Canada. If the opportunity comes up, my wife and I would be happy to put you up and show you some of the beauty and hospitality of the area.
Love your chemistry you two rock, keep up the great vids!
Listen to Carly sing Nobody Does It Better , You Belong To Me or Coming Around Again.