Talk:You're So Vain

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I can't help but notice that there's an e, an a, and an r in every man.--Heathcliff 03:53, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Same with Mick Jagger and Warren Beatty. :p--Kross 07:00, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Don't know this music but was it covered by Chimaira rather than Chimera. Have fixed Janet Jackson a link also Alf 07:26, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I don't think the link belongs on the main page, but McSweeneys' rebuttal to "You're so vain" is painfully funny. TheronJ 20:16, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "hear-say"

According to word of mouth, Carly Simon invites people to her place in Martha's Vinyard; then she tells a certain group of people who and what the song is about. Before hearing this information, you must sign documents stating you will keep your lips sealed, "or else". A certain person (name not stated), said one clue he could give was, "it is not one person, but a group of people.

After hearing this my guess has been Republicans, which makes sense because the song was written in a democratic pause (Presidant Jimmy Carter)in the middle of a republican reign.

   You're a liberal idiot.  216.114.251.82 03:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC) 

The speculation stating the mystery man is Jagger, is completely absurd. He did the back up vocals for the song. Why would Carly Simon make a big deal about something everyone already new?

• Can anyone justify the inclusion of Carole King as one of the possible subjects of the song? I see no basis for speculating that the song is supposed to have a lesbian interpretation (or that either King or Simon are or were lesbians). By the way, the song was written and became a hit during the (Republican) Nixon administration, several years before Jimmy Carter became president. --Metropolitan90 01:49, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Daffy Duck speculation

I put Daffy Duck in there because Carly Simon has mentioned that cartoon character in many interviews

Looking at the history of this page it asks where is there an E and an R in Daffy Duck, well I've seen every Daffy Duck cartoon and five of them Daffy Duck has said his middle initial is R And there's an E in it that if you say Daffy Duck really fast it sounds like Daf-e

Now you still might consider it a load of bull BUT there have been many cases where singers like to play big pranks and this could be one of the cases —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.25.140.101 (talk • contribs).

• I believe there have also been cases where anonymous Wikipedia contributors have played pranks and this could be one of them. (No evidence has been provided that Daffy's middle initial is R.) --Metropolitan90 03:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)