carole_king raze i dug a carly simon tape out of a box in the basement. there's a picture of her on the front cover with windswept hair and a strange, secret smile. "you're so vain" and "anticipation" are both on the second side. the words on the cassette's black plastic casing are so faded, all i can make out now is that it was made in canada. i didn't have to rewind it. i just slid it into the tray and pressed play. when the first piano chord hit, i knew i wasn't listening to "that's the way i've always heard it should be". this was your "tapestry". i'm not sure how it ended up in the wrong case. i didn't even know we had this tape. i wish i could say this was where we met, but my introduction to your artistry was what most critics consider the low point of your career: the theme song for "the care bears movie". "sometimes you feel so glad," you sang. "sometimes you feel blue. share your feelings. it's not bad. feelings are just you." something about that made me want to cry when i was a kid. after front-loading my morning with the first five songs from your best-loved album, i think i know why. you sing like the mother i wish i had. 230720 what's it to you? who go blather from