Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"

Carly Simon coleciona sucessos, mas nenhum de seus hits gerou tanta polêmica quanto You're So Vain, composta em 1972 para o álbum No Secrets.

Carly criou em seu site oficial uma página inteiramente dedicada à música, com uma coletânea de entrevistas onde ela sistematicamente despista os entrevistadores sobre quem seria o "vaidoso" homem que voou de Learjet até Nova Escócia apenas para ver um eclipse do sol... Seria Mick Jagger? "Não". James Taylor (ex-marido de Carly)? "Definitivamente, não". O ator Warren Beatty, nascido em Nova Escócia? "Talvez"...

Em 2005 Carly Simon, em entrevista ao USA Today, brincou que o misterioso homem que se dividia entre "algum espião do submundo ou a esposa de um amigo" era o "Garganta Profunda", o ex-agente do FBI Mark Felt, que revelou os segredos do escândalo de Watergate aos repórteres do Washington Post em 1974.

Polêmicas, fofocas e o talento de Carly Simon mantêm You're So Vain um sucesso há quase 40 anos.

No vídeo de 1987, Carly Simon interpreta You're So Vain em um concerto na ilha Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and....

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?

You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
and that you would never leave

But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee and....

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.....

Well I hear you went up to Saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all of the time
And when you're not you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and....

You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you.....