Carly Simon

In an interview two years ago, Paul McCartney was asked some chestnut of a question
about the plight of the aging rock star. He replied thoughtfully and sympathetically, but
without much concern for his own situation. He could see how worrisome it might be to
grow long in the tooth and still pass oneself off as a teen angel, but he felt his own fans had
stopped thinking of him that way. McCartney was confident that he'd successfull... More >

Carly generally makes marriage seem both more boring and more nasty than I've found it to be, but not on this album, where matrimony is abandoned for more adolescent subjects. Even the two please-don't-cheat-oh-hubby songs--the better (and nastier) of them written by Carly's hubby--can be interpreted by her younger fans as please-don't-cheat-oh-boyfriend. In a way, this is too bad--if Carly were to come up with an interesting song about marriage, someone less conventional musically than Carly & Arif might cover it and give Carola and me something new to sing along to. John and Yoko, where are you now that we need you? (Grade: C+)