Tag: carly-simon

  • day 103: You’re So Vain

    You’re So Vain, by Carly Simon.

    Have I talked about Love 94 yet? I probably have. The radio station that was on by default in our house for maybe the first 7 years of my life was focused on what we might now consider “soft rock” or mayyyybe “easy listening” depending on the decade, but then it was just pretty mainstream pop music, I think? Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Carly Simon, Irene Cara, maybe a little Journey, definitely Air Supply, certainly the Carpenters, etc.

    This song is one of a thousand I identify with that radio station, and the stereo system in the first house I lived in (yes, there was an 8-track player hooked up to it, but I have only the vaguest memory of us ever using it – the radio and my personal Fisher Price turntable were primary sources.)

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    Apparently it’s apostrophe-in-song-title week here? That just makes me nervous about special character escaping and backwards compatibility, but we’ll go with it.