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PEOPLE & ARTSThursday 19 November 2015

Simon says part Enya returns with ethereal
of ‘You’re So Vain’
style she’s made her own
is about Beatty

NEW YORK (AP) — Carly In this Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Beach Boys, Nicky
Simon says the second 2013, file photo, Carly Simon Ryan uses Enya’s voice as
verse of her infamous song arrives at the Oceana’s Part- an instrument, piling vocal
“You’re So Vain” is about ners Award Gala at the Bev- tracks on top of each oth-
Warren Beatty. erly Wilshire Hotel, in Beverly er, usually on a bed of syn-
The 70-year-old singer tells Hills, Calif. thesizers. Often she sings
People magazine that Associated Press in her native Gaelic and
she’s “confirmed that other languages, even fic-
the second verse is War- tional ones.
ren.” She adds that Beatty Enya often wonders if it
“thinks the whole thing is bothers her fans not to un-
about him!” derstand what she’s sing-
Simon will release the mem- ing about. “They all seem
oir, “Boys in the Trees,” on to pick up on the emo-
Nov. 24. The subjects be- tional performances of the
hind “You’re So Vain,” re- song and seem to interpret
leased in 1972, have been their own emotions with
the music,” she said.
a matter of speculation for years. Since the song “Orinico “Th
The singer said the No. 1 hit is about three men, including Flow” and album “Water- she
Beatty, though she isn’t naming the others. mark” were hits in the late ed,”
Simon was married to James Taylor, and People says she 1980s, Enya’s professional “We
has been linked to Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Jack life has been consistent. tour
Nicholson and Cat Stevens.q She and the Ryans work as ther
a team in an Irish studio. The prisi
E! network music is meticulously craft- for
ed; sometimes Enya will exc
canceling This Oct. 14, 2015 photo shows singer Enya posing in New York to record dozens, if not hun-
promote her new album “Dark Sky Island.” dreds, of vocal tracks for
parody a song, then erase them if
Associated Press the idea doesn’t gel. Each
album takes a minimum of
show ‘The In this Sept. 17, 2015 file pho- DAVID BAUDER her “25.” three years to make, with
Soup’ to, Joel McHale attends the AP Entertainment Writer The music industry will be the gap before “Dark Sky
Audi Celebrates Emmys Week NEW YORK (AP) — The Irish watching to see in this era Island” larger because she
NEW YORK (AP) — The 2015 in West Hollywood, Calif. singer Eithne Ni Bhraonain of streaming and sharing took time to travel.
Associated Press — known to the world as if Enya can replicate past At the first sign of success,
Enya — has essentially cre- success. Nielsen Music says Enya’s record company
E! Entertainment network is pulling the plug on “The ated her own style of music she’s sold 23.8 million al- suggested a concert tour.
Soup,” its weekly show with host Joel McHale that mocks and sold some 80 million bums in the United States Enya knew it would take
other television series. CDs in three decades. Yet alone. a lot to present the music
McHale has been host for 12 years, and the network said when she leaves a hotel However, there is reason live — choirs, maybe an
Wednesday that he will do the final show on Dec. 18. after talking about her first for added excitement: orchestra. Her cost-con-
The program premiered in 1991 as “Talk Soup,” specifi- new work in seven years, Enya fans are being teased scious company wanted
cally targeting talk shows for parody, with Greg Kinnear chances are she will walk with the possibility that the something smaller, so in-
as host. John Henson, Hal Sparks and Aisha Taylor took Manhattan streets unno- 54-year-old singer, who stead she returned to the
turns as hosts before it was relaunched as “The Soup” with ticed. rarely sings in public, may recording studio. A pattern
McHale as host in 2004. It’s an enviable place to actually be ready to take was set and never broken.
There was no immediate word on why E! decided to end be in a celebrity-soaked the stage. “Once I start an album,
the show.q world. “Performing is something I that’s all I will focus on,”
“As a musician, I love the enjoy,” she said. “The way she said. “But as soon as
Jamie Foxx’s fact that the success was we put an album togeth- I walk away, which was
daughter, on the music,” she said. “I er is very much a perfor- only recently, you start to
always say that fame and mance feel. We’re trying think, ‘Is this the album that
Corinne, named Miss success are two very dif- to capture that live per- we finally follow with live
Golden Globe ferent things. ... I had a formance and that’s why I performances?’ Because
choice — and not a lot of would know it would work we have such a choice of
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamie Corinne Foxx attends the Miss people have this choice — on stage, and I would love songs from each album.”
Foxx’s daughter is going to Golden Globe InStyle Party of whether to seek fame to perform it.” She’s occasionally per-
the Golden Globe Awards. held at Ysabel on Tuesday, with this music or whether So why hasn’t she done so formed on television shows
The Hollywood Foreign Nov. 17, 2015, in West to stay back behind the in the past? and describes the experi-
Press Association an- Hollywood, Calif. music and let the music “Time,” she said. ence as “wonderful.”
nounced Tuesday that speak for itself. And, really, Making Enya’s music takes Cameron Strang, chair-
Foxx’s daughter, Corinne, Associated Press. that’s what I did.” a lot of it. man and CEO of Warner
will serve as Miss Golden Enya’s music re-enters the She sang in the family Bros., her record label, ad-
Globe at the ceremony in spotlight on Friday, with the band Clannad in the 1980s mitted he was surprised
January. release of “Dark Sky Island.” until she, producer Nicky when Enya raised the pos-
Corinne is a senior at the It debuts the same day an- Ryan and his wife, lyricist sibility of performances
University of Southern Cali- other one-named power- Roma Ryan, hit upon their with the new record.q
fornia who recently shot a house comes out with her signature style. A fan of
modeling campaign.q new album — Adele with producer Phil Spector and