{"id":321748,"date":"2010-02-15T09:36:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=93257"},"modified":"2010-02-15T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:36:28","slug":"carly-simon-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-so-vain%e2%80%9d-video-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/321748","title":{"rendered":"Carly Simon \u201cYou\u2019re So Vain\u201d VIDEO Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carly Simon has launched a competition seeking the first official video to accompany her chart-topping 1972 song, &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain.&#8221;  For nearly 40 years, the pop singer\/songwriter has remained tight-lipped about one of music&#8217;s biggest mysteries: Who is the narcissistic subject of the tune?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wAPFdBNvtKw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wAPFdBNvtKw&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-93257\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Simon has never publicly revealed the identity of her inspiration &#8212; but she&#8217;s giving fans an opportunity to have fun with the rumors. Over the years, &#8220;Vain&#8221; has been attributed to a series of Simon&#8217;s exes, including Cat Stevens, James Taylor, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, and most notably Warren Betty.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;People ask me all the time why is there no video of this song,&#8221;<\/em> Simon said in a video announcing the competition.<em> &#8220;I think it&#8217;s that people were so busy asking me who the song was about that nobody thought to make a video of it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlysimon.com\/\">CarlySimon.com<\/a> for more information. The contest ends April 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5fQSHNy10ahMKQFgAf-7VleHBoI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5fQSHNy10ahMKQFgAf-7VleHBoI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5fQSHNy10ahMKQFgAf-7VleHBoI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/5fQSHNy10ahMKQFgAf-7VleHBoI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carly Simon has launched a competition seeking the first official video to accompany her chart-topping 1972 song, &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain.&#8221; For nearly 40 years, the pop singer\/songwriter has remained tight-lipped about one of music&#8217;s biggest mysteries: Who is the narcissistic subject of the tune? Simon has never publicly revealed the identity of her inspiration &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}