Comments on Philosophy Blog: Then what is it about?

Nah. Carly Simon is singing about Warren Beatty."...

2008-04-30T10:34:00.000-07:00

Nah. Carly Simon is singing about Warren Beatty.

"Then you flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun" His mom's up there.

Anyway, that's always bugged me too, since he's right, and the song IS about him.

It's about someone but she doesn't say whom. So, I...

2008-04-08T15:11:00.000-07:00

It's about someone but she doesn't say whom. So, I imagine there could be many people listening to the song thinking "is it me or someone else?" In that way, it's very clever.

Well... The story goes that it could have been abo...

2008-03-13T18:56:00.000-07:00

Well... The story goes that it could have been about maybe 3-4 men, one of them being Mick Jagger. He sings background vocals on the song. If you listen closely you'll hear him.

The song is about her--i.e., the singer--whose sen...

2008-03-12T07:12:00.000-07:00

The song is about her--i.e., the singer--whose sense of identity and self-respect has been wounded by her association with the megalomaniac. He's so vain he doesn't understand that the song is about her ability to finally assert her pride and self-respect. Instead, he only sees that it talks about him. A good analogy is Gone with the Wind, which although it centers around Scarlett, is really about Rhett, and his discovery of his own indepenendence.