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CMV: In the song "You're so vain", I think this song is about 'him'

In the song "You're so vain" by Carly Simon, she says "You're so vain / You probably think this song is about you". She's implying the song isn't about him but because he's so vain, he'll make it all about himself. Yet, I'd think he wouldn't be wrong claiming that this song is indeed about him. 

It's not like she's singing about something vague like heartbreak, and he's bringing it back to himself (e.g. "yeah I broke that girl's heart so bad she made a song about me"). The topic of the song isn't vague. It's basically "I met this dude and he was so vain, what a dick". The whole song is literally dedicated to saying how vain he is, but doing so, she's explicitly talking about him. No doubt about that. 

If the song isn't about him, who is it about? Don't tell me "vanity as a whole" because vanity's got a face in that song, and that face is him. So yes, I'd be happy to hear your arguments for why this song probably isn't about him.
gpt
Carly Simon has acknowledged that "you're so vain" is written about *three* specific people, not one. The song is exaggerating the specific characteristics of the person described as "so vain", making them an almost archetype of rich vanity. While the details are specific, they aren't real or concrete enough that anybody can be sure it was about them.

This means that while the song might be referring to specific acts by specific people, it is still written ambiguously enough that *several* people she had interacted with might, falsely, think the song was about them. While none of them might specifically have the apricot scarf and the winning horse and the private jet to see an eclipse, all of them have done enough things close enough to that they probably think they're important enough to get the song written about them. So it's somehow both about a few specific people *and* about all the people who "probably think the song is about them", because those people still see themselves as unique even though they can be described with another person's vain acts and not notice.