Interpretations:Jackie The Clipper

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Mind skew[edit]

Jackie is an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect, "overconfident and undercompetent", with fatal results. A bad barber or hairdresser is said to give a "butchered" cut, and this puns with the effect she had on her unfortunate clients. She should have been arrested. Instead she got fired from her job and disappeared, and now a private detective is interviewing the narrator (maybe her co-worker at the salon?) who responds with clichés from TV cop shows. --Nehushtan (talk) 14:06, 19 May 2020 (EDT)

Big Bad Fart[edit]

I know I sound crazy but it was the first thing that came to mind when I heard this song. So a hair clipper is doing someone’s hair and they then let out the biggest basest fart EVER! The lyric “fired after all of her hard work” is symbolic of Jackie dying after the fart. It’s through the perspective of the only person who got out fast enough to avoid the farts killer effects. The reason he is so upset in the song is because his wife and daughter died in the tragic event and he just wants to grief in peace.