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  • I’ll Bet You Think This Song Is About You

    CNN is reporting tonight that Carly Simon’s big secret — the subject of the standard You’re So Vain— is David.

    She’s just not saying David’s last name yet.

    And maybe the best part of the entire issue is that Simon reveals the clue is when she whispers the name “David”, which is heard when played in reverse just before the bridge on a new version of the song.  So even if The Beatles didn’t kill Paul and leave clues in their music, at least one artist says she has added a clue in reverse.

    All of this has prompted London newspaper The Sun to report that David is mogul David Geffen.  The tabloid’s sleuthing says that Carly was jealous about Geffen bringing Joni Mitchell to his startup label in the

    Eh.  Maybe.

    Knowing the lyrics, I would say that’s a stretch.  But it ain’t Warren (Beatty) or Mick (Jagger), so I guess either proved their vanity when claiming the song was about them.

    What do you think?   Who else could David be?   Showbiz411 debunks the entire David issue and claims the guy is still Warren.  I always thought so.

    Your turn.

  • Infatueighties: #84: “Emotional Rescue”

    The cover of The Rolling Stones' "Emotional Rescue" 45.
    The cover of The Rolling Stones

    “Tonight and every night…I will be your knight in shining armor…coming to your emotional rescue…”

    The fact that Mick Jagger intoned these words in a drawl that made him sound like Lurch from “The Addams Family” notwithstanding, “Emotional Rescue” is a slinky, sexy, funky jam that, to me anyway, was one of the Rolling Stones’ last excellent musical moments. Only “Start Me Up”, “Waiting on a Friend” and the majestic “Out of Tears” have come close since.

    Yeah, the song is more or less a shameless ripoff of 1978’s “Miss You”, but a) it’s not like the Stones haven’t been ripping their catalog off for the past 30 years anyway and b) if they’re gonna rip a song off, at least it’s one of their five best all time songs. Jagger’s falsetto here is killer.

    In a Falsettometer column, I showed the Thermo-Vision version (say that 5 times fast) of the video. Here is the “normal” (or at least the less Thermo-visioned) version. It’s much easier on the eyes. It’s also a HELL of a lot shorter. They cut out an entire verse. Oh well. Enjoy.

  • The Falsettometer Comes To Your Emotional Rescue

    Mick JaggerMichael Philip Jagger is many things. Frontman for arguably the world’s greatest rock and roll band. Serial bedder of hot-ass women (Bianca Jagger was a dime piece…and so was Jerry Hall back in the day…hell, he’s still bedding teenage Brazilian models and he looks like a raisin these days!)

    You can’t forget, as Eddie Murphy once said “Mick Jagger’s lips are so big…Black people look at him and say “he got some big-ass lips”. Ha!!!

    He is also in possession of a rarely used yet always effective falsetto, which has rared it’s head in three of my favorite Stones/Jagger songs. (more…)