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"Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" is an R&B and hip hop song which features a "rap poem" from Simon and samples her song "You're So Vain". [10] [11] Its composition excoriates an unfaithful lover for attempting to extort money, described as a "mean-spirited duet that rails against enemies."
Son of a Gun received mixed reviews from critics. It currently has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 62% based on 76 reviews, with an average score of 5.7/10 and the consensus: "Gritty, stylish, and smart, Son of a Gun serves up plenty of genre thrills and offers a new change of pace from Ewan McGregor."
The Top Ten chart success of "Son Of A Gun" in Australia was very much, almost solely, due to a community radio station in Melbourne, 98.9 North West FM. The station instantly identified the hit quality of the song and immediately added the song to the station's playlist on high rotation, and also incorporated grabs (small parts) of the song in ...
A year after Simon had written the chorus lyric, "You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you," a scarfed man arriving at a party studied himself in a mirror; Simon's friend said, "he looks like he's walking onto a yacht," inspiring more lyrics, including, "You…watched yourself gavotte."
Admiral William Henry Smyth wrote in his 1867 book, The Sailor's Word-Book: "Son of a gun, an epithet conveying contempt in a slight degree, and originally applied to boys born afloat, when women were permitted to accompany their husbands to sea; one admiral declared he literally was thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage." [7]
A gun Alec Baldwin was holding on the movie's set went off in ... "A son lost his mom in the most unthinkable tragedy," Hilaria Baldwin says in the trailer as overhead shots of the "Rust" set are ...
Son of a Gun, a 1918 film featuring Hugh Fay; Son of a Gun, a 2014 Australian crime film "Son of a Gun" (Homicide: Life on the Street), an episode
Two 10-year-old students were arrested in connection with a gun sold at their elementary school in Florida, county officials confirmed. A deputy's son "agreed to exchange a handgun, (later found ...