Songs that lazily describe girls/boys as "fine" (usually as a prelude to making them "mine")

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I mean, what's with that? No one in real life says someone's "fine"

― Jacques Derrida, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

They do now -- because of the songs

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

M Jackson, "He was mine/ I got off with paying a fine"

― dave q, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

...& have you ever told someone you wanted to make them yours??

I don't think I've ever said Ooh baby to anyone either ;-)

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Another version of "fine" (or "finer") is used in the opening line of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" album:
She used to work in a diner / Never saw a woman look finer

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 November 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey Mickey you're so fine...

Point taken, Jez, that there are plenty of pop locutions that we never use in real life... the fine/mine one just sounds so trite and tired, though. It's never good. "Ooh baby" is often pretty good.

― Jacques Derrida, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe they use it in prisons? In Ed Bunker's 'Animal Factory' the predatory con says "You're sure fine, baby" to the guy he wants to punk out, and that book's supposed to be 'authentic'

― dave q, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.health.org/reality/publications/retro/images/beatles.gif

< cheeky scouser accent > If you're all so smart, you try writing a song called "I Feel Fine" without resorting to rhyming it with "fine" < /scouser >

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young:

"She's so fine/ she's in my mind"

but that's almost so naive that it becomes touching yet again ...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

... the fine/mine one just sounds so trite and tired, though.

I know what you mean. Sometimes these couplets become cliches...another is changed/rearranged, hahaha. I also hate those boy band cliches which just get rearranged and put out as original songs - lines like "cuts like a knife" etc.

― Jez (Jez), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Bruce Channel - Hey! Baby

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Monday, 3 November 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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