I'm not quite sure how popular the word is in the rest of the English-speaking world, but here in Britain, the single most common way to talk about being sexually attracted to someone is to say you FANCY them.
"She probably doesn't fancy me" "He's quite fanciable" "I haven't really fancied anyone for so long" "Do you fancy him? YOU DO"
And pop music is largely about fancying people. But the only song I can think of that uses the word is ABBA's Money Money Money ("And if he happens to be free/I bet he wouldn't fancy me")
It's funny. I know it's not a very poetic word, but by this point in the history of rock and pop we've had lyrical styles that are mushy, crude and mundane but "fancying" somehow falls through the cracks.
― Alba, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Pulp must have used this loads, surely?
― tissp, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
At least the last usage of "fancy" in the Kinks' "Fancy" is like this.
[humanities prof]"Fancy" is rooted etymologically in the word "fantasy", which was the English derivative of the term for "imagination" in Greek. In Greek it doesn't have the erotic connotations that it does in English these days. As the Latin term "imagination" took precedence in English, the Greek version took on the erotic connotations.[/humanities prof]
― Euler, Monday, 8 October 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, sorry for prematurely killing this thread.
― Euler, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not quite sure how popular the word is in the rest of the English-speaking world,
not at all, there's yr answer
― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I hit you with a lick a thang Love to feel your body move like this Rub me down (C'mon work that body)
I hit you with a lick a thang Love to feel your body move like this I wanna make u dance And feel my effect yeah
Drop your guard let's jam Right here's the spot (Move your body) We got this thing right here Right here's the spot (I'm gonna get to you)
Drop your guard right here Right here's the spot (Touch your body and feel my effect) We got this thing right here Right here 's the spot (It's electrifying, right here Right here's the spot)
I fancy you Feel my effect
Right here right here's the spot
I hit you with a lick a thang Love to feel your body move like this Touch ya body And feel the desire
I hit you with a lick a thang Rub rub ya body Cos you can call me up and we can get down
Drop your guard let's jam Right here's the spot (Move your body) We got this thing right here Right here's the spot (Drop it) (I'm wanna get to you) Drop your guard let's jam Right here's the spot (Touch ya body And feel my effect yeah) We got this thing right here Right here's the spot (It's electryfying Right here, right here's the spot)
Right here's the spot Right here's the spot
Delirious
I know u fancy me I fancy u I know u fancy me I fancy u babe, c'mon
I'm wanna make u dance I wanna move u I'm wanna make u dance I m gonna get to u I'm wanna make u dance It's all about anything, everything I'm gonna get u
Dance If u want to if u don't' make u'r own way home Dance If u want to if u don't' make u'r own way home (Say chant) Delirious
All u people, let me hear u make some noise
[Chorus repeat]
― etc, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Googling reveals Lush's "Tinkerbell" ("But other girls always seem to be bitchin' about me / I say they must be jealous / I say that it's because their boyfriends all fancy me"), folksong "A Frog He Would A Wooing Go", a couple of songs on Ian Hunter's The Artful Dodger & uh Oasis' "She's Electric".
Also, looking at the word "fancying" for too long renders it void of meaning k-quick, heh.
― etc, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 01:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Tarnation's first (excellent) record has a song that asks, "Do you fancy me? Or am I living in make-believe?" They're from San Francisco but the record's on 4AD. Does that make them British by association?
― dad a, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.lyricstime.com/prince-u-want-me-lyrics.html
+ The Streets "Fit but you know it"
― Not the real Village People, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 07:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Dismantle Me" by the Distillers
I fancy youBut I've been destituteAnd all I know dissolvedI could never reundo youI will always say tis soI will always speak the truthDescend into a nooseCould never reundo youI want to bury you
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
"Paperback Head" by Tegan and Sara
You have to becomeWhat you fancy
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.airheadonline.co.uk/images/funnyhow200.gif^^^ In many ways frighteningly ahead of its time.
― Stevie T, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
King of the Slums - Fanciable Headcase
I can be your vicious British boyfriendYou can be my fanciable headcase
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link