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Mr Magpie Plot Overanalyzed

08/12/2021

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Mr Magpie is a really good electro swing song that Xenonaut got me hooked on. The lyrics follow a mysterious figure known only as Mr Magpie. The singer speaks either to herself or a third woman. What immediatelly jumped to my mind was that Mr Magpie could be a person who cheats on people who he's in relationships with. Xeno's arguably more interesting plot was that Mr Magpie was a serial killer. Out of curiosity, we sent out an email, expecting to not get a response. Not even 12 hours later, an email arrives back from Tom (bless your soul Tom) with the following message:

Absolutely Id love to help, and while I can't reveal too much - Mr Magpie is a gentleman who likes shiny things but is as far from being a gentleman as you can imagine and a bit of a good for nothing relationship cheater as you say… The singer is warning her friend or maybe herself? to not get caught up in his charms again….

So it seems that my theory ended up being correct after all! A theory spawned and was dashed that Mr Magpie might be a literal Magpie, but it turns out that the birds dislike shiny objects. We concluded that Mr Magpie is most likely a charming kleptomaniac who prays on unsuspecting victims.