Suspect #3: David Bowie
About two and a half minutes into the 2010 version of the You’re So Vain music video, you can hear the name David whispered backward. I don’t know who has time to play these songs backward, but fans investigating it said that this was a huge clue. It didn’t take long for suspicions of David Bowie as the subject to arise.
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He was already a “suspect” when the song originally came out. But rumors about the song being about him only resurfaced after Simon alluded to her ex-lover in an interview. She stated, “I’m just going to tell you this, the answer is on the new version of You’re so Vain. There’s a little whisper – and it’s the answer to the puzzle.” It’s clear that Simon was having fun with this whole mystery. So was it Bowie after all?