Styles wrote the song with Mitch Rowland, Sammy Witte and producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson.
[3][4][5] Styles wrote the song with Mitch Rowland, Sammy Witte, and producers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson.
[6] Styles originally wrote "Fine Line" as a folk ballad, but he explained to Rolling Stone that it kept expanding and evolving.
[9] Douglas Greenwood of i-D wrote that the song "houses all the same lyrical intensity but on a larger sonic scale".
[10] Jon Pareles of The New York Times wrote that the "song makes carefully optimistic promises and unfolds over six minutes with wonderful patience, eventually summoning an orchestra.