We're So Close - Carly Simon

What this video is

Released in June 1979 as a track on Carly Simon's eighth studio album Spy (Elektra Records), 'We're So Close' is a first-person meditation on emotional estrangement within an intimate relationship, written by Simon about the disintegration of her marriage to James Taylor. The album was produced by Arif Mardin and recorded at Atlantic Studios, NYC, deploying an unusually sophisticated jazz-pop ensemble including…

Why it matters

Represents the late peak of the 1970s confessional singer-songwriter tradition before the MTV visual spectacle era displaced the album-intimate promotional clip format. Its survival as one of MTV's Day One videos makes it a rare artifact bridging two distinct eras of music promotion: the pre-video…