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Carly Simon's album cover "No Secrets"

WHY “YOU’RE SO VAIN” IS ACTUALLY A LOVE SONG MASTERPIECE

This song is filled with so many hooks listening to it is tantamount to going into a butcher’s shop at night and coming out with all of your clothes ripped up. Right from the get-go, we hear Carly whispering, Son of a gun, in a way that I understand as, I’m getting ready to exact vengeance – I’m coming for you! Whether it be someone in specific or something  it doesn’t matter.

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