To think no one cares who the song 'You're so vain' was written about?

[Fantasyland]

Honestly I think I may be a bit unreasonable but It's not a mystery everyone is dying to find out or are they??
The way it's wrote about in the media it's the greatest unsolved mystery we must find out.
One guy paid a load of money to find out who Carly Simon wrote the song about but was sworn to secrecy and now he must be incredibly pissed off as Carly Simon has said one verse of the song is about Warren Beattie after previously swearing she would never say.
But now apparently has 'let slip' the song is about 3 men and not just 1.
I think she is making up the 3 men now to cause more 'mystery'.
Does anyone care who the song is about?

sort of who is it then?

She said years ago it was about more than one person, another name in the frame is James Taylor. Seems odd to make a thread about it when you profess not to care.

It might depend on how old you are.

It was a bit of a thing when the song first came out in 1972, so if you remember that directly you may well be still interested in the solution to the mystery.

Laffy My thread is asking if people are really that bothered who it is as its portrayed in the media as a great mystery and I dont think it is , it's just a song

She was probably off her face at the time anyway so can't even remember. I don't care though and neither should you. Some things will never be solved and so what really.

Is there some sort of argument going on about it with someone, hence your thread?

As Stella says if you were around in 1972 it was quite a thing and many from that era are probably still genuinely curious. It's a great song, Simon is a genius.

I'm not that bothered about whom it was writ, but it's still a cracking, timeless track. (Apart from the way she pronounces 'apricot', which enrages me every time.)

I want to know now !

I love that song

I would like to know.

I always thought it was Warren Beatty. I also always thought it was a silly song.

Mick jagger was another possible.

Does anyone care who the song is about. Well I've always been curious and so must you be, well its certainly important enough to you to start this thread,

Sigh It's been 43 years, time to come clean. The song's about me. I'm so vain.

I always thought it was about James Taylor. I love the song.

I always thought it was Mick Jagger, don't really care tbh its just a song

I've always thought it was about Warren Beattie. I thought that was well known

People are totally missing the point of this thread!
I don't care but feel the media and everyone else think everyone should care who it is about.
That is what the thread is about. You can write a thread about something you don't care about you know

I thought it was about warren Beatty, unlikely to be mick Jagger, he sings backing vocals on the song!

Does the media talk about this a lot then?

I don't think I'm aware of the right kind of media.

I always thought it was Warren Beatty

I always thought Warren Beaty

As Mick Jagger sings backing vocals on it, he'd have to be either a) clueless; or b) extremely vain.

I don't care. Has something happened meaning I should care.

This is a very topical thread!

wowfudge I suspect he may be both of those!

Don't think it's about Jagger though

I picture Warren Beatty when I hear it!

I remember being out with a younger friend in the '90s and this came on the jukebox. He listened to it, fascinated, then proclaimed it to be, "Genius".