History Music / CarlySimon

Born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and now one of the most famous residents of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American SingerSongwriter who hit it big in the 1970s with a string of pop/soul hits with a blues sensibility.

By far Simon's most famous song is "You're So Vain", a bouncily sarcastic hit about an egotistical male friend with a penchant for homewrecking and globetrotting hedonism. Considered the UrExample of the CelebrityBreakUpSong, [[WMG/YoureSoVainTheories speculation has been rampant for four decades]] about who it's about, but Simon has only publicly revealed three letters of the man's name: A, R, and E[[note]]which leaves out the man most assumed it was, Creator/JackNicholson[[/note]]. She has told a few people, including TV exec Dick (Rich'''a'''rd) '''E'''be'''r'''sol and Creator/HowardStern, but to everyone else, there has been a long list of speculated men, including Music/{{Mick J|agger}}'''[[Music/MickJagger a]]'''[[Music/MickJagger gg]]'''[[Music/MickJagger er]]''' (who sang backup on the song), [[Creator/WarrenBeatty W]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty ar]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty r]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty e]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty n Beatty]],[[note]]Fair enough. On November 18, 2015, she admitted the second verse is about him "but he thinks it's the whole song!"[[/note]] guitar builder D'''a'''ni'''e'''l A'''r'''mstrong, and record exec D'''a'''vid Law'''r'''ence G'''e'''ffen [[note]]Geffen has been openly gay for a very long time, but the rumor is that Simon was jealous of his professional favoritism towards his friend Joni Mitchell.[[/note]].Even '''R''''''a'''ymond Dougl'''a'''s D'''a'''vi'''e'''s has been mentioned as a possible. Simon has openly said it is not about her ex-husband J'''a'''m'''e'''s Taylo'''r''', but did once joke about it being about D'''e'''ep Th'''r'''o'''a'''t (aka W. M'''ar'''k F'''e'''lt). [[note]]She apparently got the idea for the apricot scarf from Creator/NickNolte, who has only two of the required letters -- Nichol'''a'''s Nolt'''e'''.[[/note]] In 2015 she finally revealed that each of the three verses is actually about a different man, and the second one is Beatty, but she still intends to take the identities of the other two to her grave.

By far Simon's most famous song is "You're So Vain", a bouncily sarcastic hit about an egotistical male friend with a penchant for homewrecking and globetrotting hedonism. Considered the UrExample of the CelebrityBreakUpSong, [[WMG/YoureSoVainTheories speculation has been rampant for four decades]] about who it's about, but Simon has only publicly revealed three letters of the man's name: A, R, and E[[note]]which leaves out the man most assumed it was, Creator/JackNicholson[[/note]]. She has told a few people, including TV exec Dick (Rich'''a'''rd) '''E'''be'''r'''sol and Creator/HowardStern, but to everyone else, there has been a long list of speculated men, including Music/{{Mick J|agger}}'''[[Music/MickJagger a]]'''[[Music/MickJagger gg]]'''[[Music/MickJagger er]]''' (who sang backup on the song), [[Creator/WarrenBeatty W]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty ar]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty r]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty e]]'''[[Creator/WarrenBeatty n Beatty]],[[note]]Fair enough. On November 18, 2015, she admitted the second verse is about him "but he thinks it's the whole song!"[[/note]] guitar builder D'''a'''ni'''e'''l A'''r'''mstrong, and record exec D'''a'''vid Law'''r'''ence G'''e'''ffen [[note]]Geffen has been openly gay for a very long time, but the rumor is that Simon was jealous of his professional favoritism towards his friend Joni Mitchell.[[/note]]. Simon has openly said it is not about her ex-husband J'''a'''m'''e'''s Taylo'''r''', but did once joke about it being about D'''e'''ep Th'''r'''o'''a'''t (aka W. M'''ar'''k F'''e'''lt). [[note]]She apparently got the idea for the apricot scarf from Creator/NickNolte, who has only two of the required letters -- Nichol'''a'''s Nolt'''e'''.[[/note]] In 2015 she finally revealed that each of the three verses is actually about a different man, and the second one is Beatty, but she still intends to take the identities of the other two to her grave.

* StatuesqueStunner: Stands at 5'10".

* ThirdWheel: "Two Hot Girls"
* TooMuchInformation: "We Have No Secrets"

* LyricalDissonance: This is very close to being one of Simon's signature songwriting techniques; her very first hit, "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", is a song with seemingly happy lyrics about beating the bad relationship odds, but a mournful, ''extremely'' ambivalent tune that indicates the singer doesn't really expect to come out on top. "Anticipation" (written about a fling with Music/CatStevens) has a distinctly triumphal tune but the words are about pre-first-date jitters. "Better Not Tell Her" sounds like an angry rant from a jealous ex, but it closes on a desperately sad and lonely note. "Jesse" is a deliriously happy song about wanting to see a man who is absolutely no good for her. "You Belong To Me" is a jazzy, sax-laden, almost seductive song about a woman who's terrified of losing her cheating lover. And then there's her cover of "Eensy-Weensy Spider", which serves as a reprise of the title track on ''Coming Around Again'', which is a song about a frustrated housewife living her life in a fog... [[MindScrew and it has her kids singing backup]].

* SlapSlapKiss: Her minor 1988 hit "All I Want Is You" seems to be describe a relationship that is built on this, with lyrics that suggest the narrator finds sparring (at least verbally; there's no evidence in the lyrics that it turns violent) sexually arousing. She also declares she doesn't want a polite, timid man "who tiptoes upstairs."

Born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and now one of the most famous residents of Martha's Vineyard, MA, Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is a SingerSongwriter who hit it big in the 1970s with a string of pop/soul hits with a blues sensibility.

By far Simon's most famous song is "You're So Vain", a bouncily sarcastic hit about an egotistical male friend with a penchant for homewrecking and globetrotting hedonism. Considered the UrExample of the CelebrityBreakUpSong, [[WMG/YoureSoVainTheories speculation has been rampant for four decades]] about who it's about, but Simon has only publicly revealed three letters of the man's name: A, R, and E[[note]]which leaves out the man most assumed it was, Creator/JackNicholson[[/note]]. She has told a few people, including TV exec Dick (Rich'''a'''rd) '''E'''be'''r'''sol and Creator/HowardStern, but to everyone else, there has been a long list of speculated men, including Mick J'''a'''gg'''er''' (who sang backup on the song), W'''ar'''r'''e'''n Beatty,[[note]]Fair enough. On Nov. 18 2015 she admitted the second verse is about him "but he thinks it's the whole song!"[[/note]] guitar builder D'''a'''ni'''e'''l A'''r'''mstrong, and record exec D'''a'''vid Law'''r'''ence G'''e'''ffen [[note]]Geffen has been openly gay for a very long time, but the rumor is that Simon was jealous of his professional favoritism towards his friend Joni Mitchell.[[/note]]. Simon has openly said it is not about her ex-husband J'''a'''m'''e'''s Taylo'''r''', but did once joke about it being about D'''e'''ep Th'''r'''o'''a'''t (aka W. M'''ar'''k F'''e'''lt). [[note]]She apparently got the idea for the apricot scarf from Creator/NickNolte, who has only two of the required letters -- Nichol'''a'''s Nolt'''e'''.[[/note]] In 2015 she finally revealed that each of the three verses is actually about a different man, and the second one is Beatty, but she still intends to take the identities of the other two to her grave.

* HypocriticalHumor: The fact that "You're So Vain" is written in the second person means that logically, whoever "you" is, it ''is'' "about you". Doesn't mean it's not vain to assume you ''are'' that person, though... (unless [[TakeAThirdOption it's really about three different people]].)

* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady]]: What Simon is now that she is in her mid-70s.

* LyricalDissonance: This is very close to being one of Simon's signature songwriting techniques; her very first hit, "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", is a song with seemingly happy lyrics about beating the bad relationship odds, but a mournful, ''extremely'' ambivalent tune that indicates the singer doesn't really expect to come out on top. "Anticipation" (written about a fling with CatStevens) has a distinctly triumphal tune but the words are about pre-first-date jitters. "Better Not Tell Her" sounds like an angry rant from a jealous ex, but it closes on a desperately sad and lonely note. "Jesse" is a deliriously happy song about wanting to see a man who is absolutely no good for her. "You Belong To Me" is a jazzy, sax-laden, almost seductive song about a woman who's terrified of losing her cheating lover. And then there's her cover of "Eensy-Weensy Spider", which serves as a reprise of the title track on ''Coming Around Again'', which is a song about a frustrated housewife living her life in a fog... [[MindScrew and it has her kids singing backup]].

* TheDissTrack: Her song "You're So Vain" is a bouncily sarcastic hit about an egotistical male friend with a penchant for homewrecking and globetrotting hedonism. After several decades, Simon finally admitted that the song is at least partially about Warren Beatty.

* [[CoolOldGuy Cool Old Lady]]: What Simon is now that she is about to enter her 70s.

By far Simon's most famous song is "You're So Vain", a bouncily sarcastic hit about an egotistical male friend with a penchant for homewrecking and globetrotting hedonism. Considered the UrExample of the CelebrityBreakUpSong, [[WMG/YoureSoVainTheories speculation has been rampant for four decades]] about who it's about, but Simon has only publicly revealed three letters of the man's name: A, R, and E[[note]]which leaves out the man most assumed it was, Creator/JackNicholson[[/note]]. She has told a few people, including TV exec Dick (Rich'''a'''rd) '''E'''be'''r'''sol and Creator/HowardStern, but to everyone else, there has been a long list of speculated men, including Mick J'''a'''gg'''er''' (who sang backup on the song), W'''ar'''r'''e'''n Beatty,[[note]]Fair enough. On Nov. 18 2015 she admitted the second verse is about him "but he thinks it's the whole song!"[[/note]] guitar builder D'''a'''ni'''e'''l A'''r'''mstrong, and record exec D'''a'''vid Law'''r'''ence G'''e'''ffen [[note]]Geffen has been openly gay for a very long time, but the rumor is that Simon was jealous of his professional favoritism towards his friend Joni Mitchell.[[/note]]. Simon has openly said it is not about her ex-husband J'''a'''m'''e'''s Taylo'''r''', but did once joke about it being about D'''e'''ep Th'''r'''o'''a'''t (aka W. M'''ar'''k F'''e'''lt). [[note]]She apparently got the idea for the apricot scarf from NickNolte, who has only two of the required letters -- Nichol'''a'''s Nolt'''e'''.[[/note]] In 2015 she finally revealed that each of the three verses is actually about a different man, and the second one is Beatty, but she still intends to take the identities of the other two to her grave.

* ThemeThune: "Nobody Does It Better", for the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Includes a TitleDrop and some cutesy innuendo about "keeping all my secrets safe tonight".

* BandOfRelatives: Before hitting the big time, she recorded three albums with her sister Lucy as the Simon Sisters.

* PopStarComposer: For a Disney/WinnieThePooh movie, of all things.

By far Simon's most famous song is "You're So Vain", a bouncily sarcastic hit about an egotistical male friend with a penchant for homewrecking and globetrotting hedonism; [[WMG/YoureSoVainTheories speculation has been rampant for four decades]] about who it's about, but Simon has only publicly revealed three letters of the man's name: A, R, and E[[note]]which leaves out the man most assumed it was, Creator/JackNicholson[[/note]]. She has told a few people, including TV exec Dick (Rich'''a'''rd) '''E'''be'''r'''sol and Creator/HowardStern, but to everyone else, there has been a long list of speculated men, including Mick J'''a'''gg'''er''' (who sang backup on the song), W'''ar'''r'''e'''n Beatty,[[note]]Fair enough. On Nov. 18 2015 she admitted the second verse is about him "but he thinks it's the whole song!"[[/note]] guitar builder D'''a'''ni'''e'''l A'''r'''mstrong, and record exec D'''a'''vid Law'''r'''ence G'''e'''ffen [[note]]Geffen has been openly gay for a very long time, but the rumor is that Simon was jealous of his professional favoritism towards his friend Joni Mitchell.[[/note]]. Simon has openly said it is not about her ex-husband J'''a'''m'''e'''s Taylo'''r''', but did once joke about it being about D'''e'''ep Th'''r'''o'''a'''t (aka W. M'''ar'''k F'''e'''lt). [[note]]She apparently got the idea for the apricot scarf from NickNolte, who has only two of the required letters -- Nichol'''a'''s Nolt'''e'''.[[/note]] In 2015 she finally revealed that each of the three verses is actually about a different man, and the second one is Beatty, but she still intends to take the identities of the other two to her grave.

* ''Film/JamesBond'': "Nobody Does It Better", from ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''. Includes a TitleDrop and some cutesy innuendo about "keeping all my secrets safe tonight".

Born in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity and one of Martha's Vineyard, MA's most famous residents, Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is a SingerSongwriter who hit it big in the 1970s with a string of pop/soul hits with a blues sensibility.