Carly Simon confirms ‘You’re So Vain’ subject

Beatty, however, still thinks “the whole thing is about him!”

Simon has confirmed to People that she’s actually singing about three different men in “You’re So Vain”, and reveals that the second verse is about actor/director Warren Beatty, who’s has always been rumored to be the subject of the tune.

The 70-year-old singer, who once dated Beatty, is due to release her forthcoming memoirs Boys In The Trees.

Her anecdote-filled memoir, which she wrote without a ghostwriter and which closes in the early 1980s when her marriage to singer-songwriter James Taylor ends, is dishy without being salacious. But according to Simon, he only got a singular verse. “I told them the first year that it was happening, and they thought I was just trying to be one of the bigger girls”.

“I don’t think so”, she told People. But what about the other verses, who are they about?

Simon and Beatty were an item at one point, and the second verse of the song indicates that it didn’t end well.

Still, even though she was being assaulted, the young Simon didn’t think that it was as bad as it seems now.

Clouds in my coffee, blah blah blah.

Didn’t we kind of already know that? “That song is about me”.

She admitted to the magazine that she was intrigued by the continued interest in the men behind the song.

Simon kept her experiences quiet for many years and even had a hard time opening up to a child psychologist about the ordeal.

Idols from back in Carly’s heyday, like Kris Kristofferson and David Bowie were also frequent guesses about who she was calling “so vain”, reports MSN News.