Mrs Magic

Strawberry Guy is the solo project of the Welsh-born, Liverpool-based musician Alexander Morgan Stephens, formerly a keyboardist for The Orielles. This song is an introspective baroque-pop tune about feeling mentally unmoored and begging a half-mythical "Mrs Magic" to clear his head.

The song was inspired by a bad magic mushroom trip that left him feeling like his sense of self had disappeared. "I'd never done any psychedelics before, and I was expecting this really big, grand sort of show, like a hallucinogenic festival in my mind," Stephens told NME. "But instead, I felt like everything that made me 'me' was gone. That's what the whole song's about; it's me saying, 'I don't know what I'm doing here', while I have no idea where the f--k I am. It was terrifying!"

Stephens began Strawberry Guy in 2018 and released "Mrs Magic" as a single in 2019, including it on his debut EP, Taking My Time to Be. For the original version, he was working mostly on his own in a bedroom setup, using samples for the orchestral textures.