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  • Love that lady

  • I love Carly

  • RIP T - BONE!!!!!!!!!

  • I think it is about the guy with the cowbell.

  • The cowbell is an under appreciated musical instument.

  • Its about Mick Jagger.

  • Carly, are you ever going to disclose who you wrote this about?

    My God, you're still a doll...

  • I thought that this song was probably about me...

  • the cow bell dude steals the show lol

  • the bass player looks extremelly retarded

  • I love how she looked at the camera at 3:43, then seemed like she got shy all of a sudden and looked back.  Carly was SO adorable. I will always love her.

  • Hilarious. Damn cow bell players are always hot......

  • its about the guy with the cow bell hahahahaha

  • No one pays attention, two years ago at the Macy Days Parade in New York she played and talked to a reporter saying it was Cat Stevens, the mystery is over, so why argue? No one pays enough attention to actuality, when they argue stupidity.

  • What a great song. Always will be.

  • Would anyone else like to see the guy with the cowbell thrown off the dock? He acts like he directing everyone else. I mean how much lower of the skill level can you go from hitting a cowbell?

  • It's funny because the song actually is about him.

  • YES....I totally agree with you Adam...gotta have MORE COWBELL BABY:)

  • Great song but someone must have really hurt her for her to write it.

  • Nobody does it better, love ya Carly

  • 93 we're so vain and thought this song was about them so they disliked it! Jerks!

  • Love you Carly!

  • 2:03, feel the cowbel in your soul

  • i be rockin to carly simon and guess what....Im a 30 yr old Black Man....shhhh dont tell no Body!!!.......jk tell anyone u want, Carly is Hot

  • @greenbean203 Carly is 1/4 black.

  • What makes you think this song is about a man?!

  • The man she is talking about is her ex-husband

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

  • This song IS about him though :S

  • @jonnygouda1 I bet you are !

  • I dated a girl who could have been Carly Simon's twin. I should have married her, sigh!

  • She wrote this about her fling with Cat Stevens

  • I like this song, I think it's nice, and I don't give a damn about who is she talking about.

  • 89 people disliked this video. Apart from Warren Beatty /James Taylor and maybe Mick Jagger who could possibly dislike this??

  • @LembonganProperty i'm with you, but there's some dumb somebeeches watching!!!!!

  • What fool would ever let her slip between his fingers

  • I've liked this song for all the wrong reasons. The cowbell, it's so intense, I never noticed it before. And he's so into it. Calling people out in the crowd by pointing his stick. Cowbell stole the show!

  • She is very talented singer. I like her.

  • Needs more Christopher Walken

  • Who's playing the bass?

  • If I grew up in the 70s I would be in love with her, haha

  • ROCK ON GIRL!!

  • Me encanta esta canción. Viví en New York 1 año y ahí fue la primera vez que la escuché. Ahora estoy de vuelta en Chile y cada vez que la escucho recuerdo mis días en la ciudad que nunca duerme....

  • Does it really matter who is the man? This is one of the best songs I've ever heard...I love it

  • @Zeusdattilo of course it matters who the man is... with out him she would have never had the need to write the song

  • you go girl !!!!!!!!!

  • My astronomy professor discussed this song in class today since she mentions a "total eclipse of the sun" in Nova Scotia. Since Warren Beatty's mother lives there, he assumed she was singing about him. I googled it, and apparently she sang the guy's name backwards on a rerecording of it. I don't know how true that it, but the name on the record (there was a name) was a manager of hers who promoted Joni Mitchell (her rival) over her, making her mad.

  • Warren - the CRUCIFIED CHRIST is still CRUCIFIED - are you gawd yet?

  • ♥♥♥

    

  • Wow, she's really pretty lol. I don't know why I'm listening to this song, though. I like the chorus, but meh.

  • JANET JACKSON SON OF A GUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • The real truth again about this song is Carly Simon wrote this after she was dumped by then her boyfriend Wayne Newton. She kept it to herself for many years. It didn't come out until the late 70's when some of her music she wrote was up for auction. She told someone in the news business about the song. The story came out,and Tampa's Q105 Cleveland Wheeler told the story on the radio in the 70's. This is the correct story.

  • Thought it was Warren Beatty.....

  • t-bone on bass

  • 1:54 lesbians

  • i work at a grocery store and they play this song. good song lol

  • I've got a fever.... and the only cure is for more cowbell :~)

  • <3

  • @562ole Me too. Although far from plain I am nowhere near vain. Peace and Love

  • Ma Song!!!! :)

  • More Cow Bell Man!

  • damn good song but u got to be old to remember being at that concert

  • @gonefishin3081 AND YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN SO LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN THERE...

  • Always thought it was a well known fact it was referring to Warren Beatty after they split

  • it was elvis

  • i used to hate this song when i was a kid. i have loved it so much over the past few years.

  • Mick Jagger sings some of the background vocals, so it doesn't make sense that it'd be about him...

  • 83 people do not consider themselves vain

  • @kmillard81 Are you stupid? Do you even know what the word means?

  • good :D

    

  • the truth is.. this song was about that person

  • More Cowbell.

  • Mick wrote "Memory Motel" about her

  • I heard her say it was about Warren Beatty

  • So, she sleeps with a famous guy(because he's famous) and 'several years' later she's still obsessed enough to write a song about him? After reading over the lyrics, it sounds like she's accusing him of moving on and actually enjoying his life.

    It seems like Alanis Morrisette didn't really invent the whole 'self-absorbed psycho ex-girlfriend from hell gets a recording contract' thing.

    When I'm forced to listen to this I change the lyrics to 'I bet he's better off without you...'

  • no auto tuner here!

  • i like it!!!!!!

  • taught the song was about warren beatty

  • She is incredible !!!

  • n December 2011, it was inadvertently revealed on an airing of The Dan Patrick Show that Dick Ebersol told Dan Patrick that the subject of the song was Mick Jagger.

  • nobody does it better

  • Nobody does it better.........

  • I love the line about Saratoga

  • carly sold the answer of who this song is about in auction for 50 000> booya

  • "you watched yourself gavant" and more and more men do that now!

  • I think we all would enjoy a bonus video of nothin but Cowbell man.Its by far the best Cowbell preformances iv ever seen.

  • @rollinon44s

    In a comedy movie, this guy could be some mr bean like bystander who sneaked his way in backstage, and managed to get on stage with al the other musicians and singers, who all don't know where he came from and gues that he's some

    new background singer they didn't met yet, so they think that he belongs in the band, while the fought "who the f*ck is that idiot ? "goes through their minds.

  • you mean this song is not about me?

  • it's such a good song!!

  • Mick sings on it

  • Carly is sooooo bad assed. Love her!

  • Go Mr. Cowbell man!

  • Most people think this song was written about Mick Jagger. But the truth is no one truly knows. Carly has been offerd alot of money numerous times to disclose who it is actually about but has never accepted an offer. That in my opinion makes the song even better because it is open to wide speculation. It is also interesting that many people have gone so far as studying every lyric in the song and tried to link it with someone from her past.

  • @jpmontoya2009

    She sold the secret to some japanese millionaire long ago. it's about Warren beatty

  • @jpmontoya2009 "Most people think this song was written about Mick Jagger."

    It's funny you should say that, actually, because I have always been under the impression that most people think it was written about Warren Beatty. I can remember reading that, that was the case - way back in the summer of 1979, when I was 14 years of age.

  • @jpmontoya2009 Howard Stern knows, Carly revealed it to him in private when she was on his show.

  • @jpmontoya2009 I bet it's about several different people.

  • @jpmontoya2009 she has basically said it is about warren betty, she has said "It certainly sounds like it was about Warren Beatty ..."

  • A great performance, your voice is in fine form.

  • it was for Mick Jagger... great song Carly!!!

  • Little known fact, this song is actually about me.

    I think it is, anyway...

  • lalala...:-)

  • But the guy (Carly's boyfriend) would be right...b/c she made the song for him. ;-)

  • ciara ansell

  • i,m watching you carly.?joking Good girl.

  • screw them carly.

  • For almost 40 years,I've been pointing out the mistake in this song:The eclipse of the sun occurred on July 10,but Saratoga didn't open until July 24.

  • This is "sick" it's sooooo good!!! Carly and this video are awesome. Personally, I am a hard rock fan, but this song and the video is brilliant. Even as a hard rock fan,....this song and video is extremely well done and magical. A rare classic from all perspectives!!!

  • Answer to who it's about? Check her website, she pretty much admitted it in an old interview quoted there:

    "WP: Who was ‘You’re So Vain about? Mick Jagger?

    Carly: No.

    WP: Warren Beatty?

    Carly: It certainly sounds like it was about Warren Beatty. He certainly thought it was about him - he called me and said thanks for the song….

    WP: You had gone with him?

    Carly: Hasn’t everybody?"

    She has stated in other interviews similar things hinting at Beatty more than Jagger or Taylor.

    It was Beatty

  • Das ist leider eines der absolut scheusslichsten Lieder die ich kenne. Ein furchtbarer Ohrwurm. Wenn ich es im Radio höre, muss ich sofort abdrehen ! Ich hasse dieses Lied, es hat nichts schönes.

  • she is just so beautiful n sexy...

  • the days of real music

  • 77 vain people have watched this video.

  • Thumbs up if How to lose a guy in 10 days brought you here

  • Carly looks like a female Jagger

  • lol

  • You probably think this song is about you

    Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me

  • Love it xx

  • Reminds me of my husband.

  • @SmallWorldFilms You made me laugh ;)

    

  • I first heard this song on the radio and it was totally epic lol.

  • I still have my Carly Simon crush! prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • I want to look like, write like and sing like Carly Simon, and I want it NOW!!

  • @HollyLovelock There is something wrong with you.

  •  all i wanna no is who is vain and why is he the meaning of this songlol

  • She so vain she wrote this song about me

  • the cow bell rocks

  • Needs more cowbell

  • It has to be Warren Beatty.

  • Your so vain, you probably think this comment is about you...

  • @andymac18100 y-o-u-'-r-e. Why can't Americans spell?

  • @andymac18100 was this song not written about warren beatty ?

  • @andymac18100 Love it, will nick this comment if you don't mind, perfect as I'm just about to share this to facebook and it's very apt lol, thanks.

  • AMO...SIMPLESMENTE AMO esta canção...MUITO FORTE E LINDA......

    Além do que ela. Carly simon, é divinamente linda.

  • Holy shit, this has got to be the universe's epicenter of whiteness.

    Martha's Vineyard, 1987, Carly Simon concert... yep. I can't think of anything more white than that.

  • I have been looking for this song for all long time and I found because of an infomercial

  • You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you :D lol

  • This song moves me! I heard that she was talking about Warren Beatty.. it fits...

    

  • @moonglowgirl57 Heh, he was the one who thought this song was about him.

  • This song moves me!

    

  • This is the most picturesque spot to have a concert ever.

  • this song is technically for him cuz shes tlkin bout him LOL

  • This song makes me lol.

  • Hating myself for not keeping up with my cowbell lessons.

  • I used to think this somg was about me

  • Whenever I hear this song now I can't but help to think about the film " How to loose a guy in ten days"!

  • joinha se vc veio ak por causa do joe

  • The cowbell is not mic'd

  • Who cares who it's about ..... damn good tune.

  • You know what's funny? She says this song isn't about him, but the sing is about how it's not "him"? Lol, weird isn't it?

  • @MrRyan215 That's the irony of it; supposedly she's over this jerk and totally indifferent but she can't stop thinking about him.

  • Is it a good thing or bad thing if a chick told me this? O_o

  • My ex liked this song and he recommended me hearing it. And now I recognize that I have found a new love, I am falling in love with "You're so vain" haha ^_^

  • I love this song very very... much. You are right, never get tired of listening.

  • Needs more cow bell.

  • wow after this performance i dont need anyone to tell me that magic doesnt exist

  • It was rumoured to be about Warren Beatty

  • I love you Carly I am glad I have a grandaughter named after you!!

  • This song so much depicts the life a man took from me as a young model years ago... I have not regrets I am now blessed with wonderful friends and family!!

  • this songs about me...im a don

  • Bella !

  • Que classic..I love you carly simon ..

  • I sang this to my ex boyfriend :)

  • For many years CS had other artists and professionals first wondering if it was he who was the subject of the song and then later insisting they were who she was talking (singing) about. Everyone from James Taylor to Neil Young to David Bowie to Mark Knopfler all made comments at one time or other saying it was in fact them. Carly never did say.

  • I got this song from How to lose a guy in 10 days - lol

  • every time i hear this song i think of the guy i'm with. he thinks every song i listen to is about how i feel towrds him and he thinks he is a ladies when he is far from it.

  • So are you Carly like the old saying it takes one to know one.