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?

Newlife I didn't realise you were in charge of what is worthy of a thread. In future I will run all future threads by you first.

We all knew. Why tell us again?

Love the song. Don't think Carly Simon admitting that a verse was about Warren Beaty (like many thought) is worth an AIBU thread. If you don't care in any way then this is a pointless thread, surely?

It's a brilliant song. I do want to know who it's about, just like I want to know who Ladykillers by Lush is about.

PaulAnka you might think it's pointless but I don't. Hate the way some people think they get to decide what qualifies as a 'worthy thread' in their opinion and try to put people down.
If it doesn't interest you then don't read or post just move to another thread.
Why do you feel the need to be rude?

I'm quite anal about analysing song lyrics and trying to work out their meaning!

But aren't you also trying to state that you are the arbiter on what is newsworthy and you don't care? Therefore it is surely OK for others to point out why bother to start a thread; that is just a valid a statement and opinion as yours.

I also thought that it was relatively common knowledge the song was inspired by her relationship with Warren Beatty. It is a mildly interesting bit of gossip.

Are you the publicist for her new book?

OP I wasn't rude. Please don't call me rude because you dislike me questioning you. That's just silly.

But since you don't like my last comment: YABU, obviously some people care who the song was about. You don't, others do. Simples.

I'm fascinated as it was my mum and dad's song when they first met and what my mum thought of my dad initially !

It's a great song and I did think it was about Warren Beattie.

MaryZ

I always thought the line was there were clowns in my coffee, clowns in my coffeeee

Silver I am not a publicist for her book (first time I've been accused of being something other than a normal poster)
I just wanted to start a thread without rude people thinking it's ok to decide whether I should have posted or not.
If people think it's pointless I don't understand why they feel the need to be rude and put people down, just click another thread. Why say it's pointless ?
What do they gain from being a bitch? Yes they have an opinion but the Aibu isn't whether my thread is worthy or not
The pack mentality on here is disgusting .
How would people like it if I commented on their threads being pointless and made them feel like shit?

I come on mumsnet to try and get support and light hearted fun not to have my threads pulled apart and be told I shouldn't have posted.

Paul the AIBU question isn't whether people think my thread is pointless and worthy of a thread but you and other members seem to think this was the question.

No, we pointed out that due to the nature of your question you posting in AIBU was daft. No need to get defensive.

You are clearly unreasonable though, given that a lot of people font agree with your initial statement. So there's your answer anyway!

Just a general thought, why do people often feel they own the thread once they have started it in AIBU or Chat? I often, like in this thread, see the OP haranguing the posters for not answering the question or giving quite valid reasons why they are being Unreasonable. I don't think you can own a thread like this and dictate how people respond.

Maybe I should start a thread about it

Silver please do, I will be there!

Silver I'm not ' dictating or owning the thread' by responding to people who feel the need to tell me I shouldn't have posted as its pointless.
Im responding to ask them why they would think that is necessary to say.

I had no idea Mick sang backing vocals. Maybe he is one of the three, heard about it and wanted to sing.

Patti had beautiful songs written about her.

Agree with the OP. It might have been a matter of interest 30 years ago but I think most of us have moved on now.
In any case, song lyrics often don't have deep hidden meanings and it can be a mistake to look for them. I used to love the song 'yellow' by coldplay,untill I found out that the lyrics had been inspired by ... the yellow pages.

I'm 45 so '30 years ago' is still fairly relevant to me!

I do like Carly Simon and I love the song but I always it WAS about WB so it's not a big shock

Is it news worthy? well is Cheryl's new hair do or KK's arse? no not really but hardly worth getting in a froth about

I think she time travelled. It's about Peter Andre.

I wasn't going to post this response as I will no doubt be accused of trying to gain sympathy but I think its important to let people know the affect of words people say and how much they can hurt and the consequences they can have.

I have no confidence down to the way I look and being constantly told throughout life that I'm worthless and stupid amongst other things.

I'm judged daily by other people and laughed at and sometimes feel i'm less of a human being down to how I look.

I avoid people in real life so I come onto online forums but now it seems I cant express myself on forums without being told I shouldn't have posted as it was pointless.

I'm sick of people trying to treat me like i'm nothing and worthless. I can handle people disagreeing with my post but to say I shouldn't have posted the damage that can do to someone with confidence like mine you have no idea.

3 years ago a simple comment like that would have made me self harm, now I just binge eat as a comment like that from posters ganging up can be the final straw.

Online support can be the only support people have so don't try and take that away from people by making them feel inferior because they haven't come up with a 'worthy thread'

Words can hurt and can have consequences and yes I am stupid to binge eat because someone upsets me on the internet but its how I deal with things now.

I don't want any sympathy just want people to think that sometimes what they say can make other peoples shitty life make it even more shittier.

She said this ages ago. Why did no one notice?

I know because I was curious last year so googled it