#evermore theory

[sarah-theswiftie]

EASTER EGGS

- the connected songs theory

[one-fiftyeight]

Okay so I saw someone post a theory on Instagram (idk who it was, sorry!) that they think there might be a third album because of the three cardigan colors. I’m a personal believer in the theory that this album will be confirming that they are married. And because the last song is called It’s Time To Go, she’s telling us she’s taking a step back. The Lover house is filled in. BUT I was just thinking about the third album theory and thought what if there is a third album that’s represented by the door on the house? And that’s the last one because she’s closing the door. The colors on the door are in the same family as the third cardigan. And there would be 10 albums.  And that’s it. She’s retiring because she found happiness and is starting a family.

[noll-a]

//illicit affairs and ivy theory//

I’m not sure but I’m notice ivy and illicit affair have same things.They’re about same topics.But different perspective.Ivy is about the girl perspective and Illicit affairs is about boy perspective.That girl and the boy meet the grave. “I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones.” And they loved each other but that girl is married or engaged.One day her husband or fiancé meets the boy. “He's in the room”. “He wants what's only yours.”Maybe the boy wants married with girl.And he wanted replace him as her husband. She getting scared “What would he do if he found us out?”.And maybe she thinks her husband or fiancé gonna burn this house to the ground. “He's gonna burn this house to the ground.”And she asked the boy“ So tell me to run or dare to sit and watch what we’ll become.”

And i think that boy says she should run.“Make sure nobody sees you leave.Hood over your head.Keep your eyes down.”“Leave the perfume on the shelf. That you picked out just for him. So you leave no trace behind. Like you don't even exist.”And she did it.But she tired of everything. “And you wanna scream.Don't call me "kid," don't call me "baby". Look at this godforsaken mess that you made me. You showed me colors you know I can't see with anyone else.”

Perhaps happy ending.And also Taylor using the “my house of stone.” Probably their marriage.Cold like stone.But that boy’s love grows like ivy and she wanted to leave her husband/fiancé and she’s now covered in ivy.“And I’m covered in you.”

{That reminds me Taylor relationship with Tom Hiddleston (2016).She was with him(Tom).And That times Taylor’s reputation wasn’t good She’s not happy with him as his lover.She left him and started date Joe.Now she’s covered in Joe’s love (ivy)}

That’s it. That’s my theory’s for illicit affairs and ivy.But it just theory.🫂🍪🫖

//Let me know you’re like this theory.🧁🌙

[alltooevermore]

ANOTHER THEORY HELLo,,, and yes i spend my day like this: but....

Cowboy like Me and Willow are CONNECTED

“Two young con artists who fall in love while hanging out at fancy resorts trying to score rich romantic beneficiaries” isn’t just talking about cowboy like me,,,,, but WILLOW AS WELL

- willow has fraud and crime references like “open-shut case” and “bait-and-switch”

- willow also references the “wrecking of plans” and a secret relationship with “wait for the signal, and i’ll meet you after dark”

[alltooevermore]

Evermore | Long Story Short

“The most righteous motive, to avenge the fallen.”

- Girl who fell down the rabbit hole (long story short)

- “I’ve been down since July” (evermore)

- Rabbit Hole and Dog Days as a parallel

- this pain wouldn’t be for evermore—> my waves meet your shore ever and evermore

- “Floors of a cabin creaking under my step” in the end of evermore describing walking out of the pain: mirrors the end of willow’s MV, she passes from the pain of falling in evermore, to be avenged in long story short

- “Long story short, i survived”— perfectly summarizes everything: evermore as an album, this story arc of the right love avenging the fallen, as well as taylor’s long-time journey of falling and getting up and finally standing in the right place

@taylorswift

[thingsarethingsnonetheless]

EVERMORE LOVE TRIANGLE THEORYYY

SO I realized this almost as a fever dream the other night, and I have no clue if anyone else has discovered this yet, but I have a theory that there’s ANOTHER love triangle hidden through the evermore songs, which parallels the folklore love triangle. 

So we start off with the song dorothea. Her old lover (for the sake of this, let’s call him Allan) is reflecting on Dorothea kind of in a positive light, but saying he’ll be around for her if she ever wants to come back to Tupelo. Well in ‘tis the damn season, she does. The connection between these songs has already been confirmed by Taylor.

We know that Dorothea broke Allan’s heart, with the lyric “there’s an ache in you, put there by the ache in me.” And Dorothea seems to regret this decision. Now I like the think that maybe Dorothea and Allan are the couple in champagne problems. Oftentimes the artsy, fame-seeking kind that Dorothea is described to be could also be called “fucked in the head,” whether for wanting the fame or for the mental illnesses that often come along with artistic interests. Maybe that’s a reason that she rejected Allan’s proposal, that she wasn’t ready to settle down and become a wife as the hometown skeptics would have wanted (the use of the word “hometown” is also a threading connection between ‘tis the damn season and champagne problems). Maybe Dorothea wanted to go off and become a star, and she knew that life wouldn’t fit what Allan wanted, to stay in Tupelo. 

Now in the events of champagne problems, Dorothea even thinks about the girl who will someday “patch up the tapestry that [she] shred”. But when we get to the songs dorothea and ‘tis the damn season, there’s no thought or mention of Allan’s potential new love. That could be because there isn’t one, but I think that Allan ended up marrying a woman named Este. I know, I know, this seems like a really far jump. But maybe this is why Dorothea knew she and Allan could only last a weekend, because he had Este. And when do we find out about this affair in no body, no crime? A Tuesday. This would be after the weekend the affair took place. Allan splurged a bit on Dorothea with some fancy merlot and jewelry. And when Este confronts him about it? Well, the song takes it from there. Then Allan is free to be with Dorothea, as in her namesake song we see that he’s incredibly hung up on her.

I don’t think Dorothea was in on the murder, but was almost thankful that it happened because after her weekend affair, she realized that she didn’t want to leave what she described as “the warmest bed [she’d] ever known.” She had gone to LA, done her thing out there, but was relieved to know that Allan wanted her back just as much (and maybe even more) as she wanted him back.

Like I said, I know that sounds like a crazy jump. But it really isn’t, because of two lyrics:

“Time flies, messy as the mud on your truck tires” - ‘tis the damn season

“And I noticed when I passed his house his truck has got some brand new tires” - no body, no crime

Another thing, I kind of like to think of this as the foil to the folklore love triangle. James realized his mistake, and wanted Betty back, and in Taylor’s mind they end up getting back together. But in the evermore love triangle, Allan would rather be with Dorothea than Este, and there are dire consequences because of it.

The folklore love triangle is a summer affair for the summer album, where the relationship survives and grows, as things do in summer. But the evermore love triangle is a winter affair, which dies and dies and dies, a million little times.

[alltooevermore]

Unconfirmed Theory: The Sister Arc

Basically; the girl in gold rush and the girl in evermore are sisters caught in the mess of an affair

main songs that are connected: Gold Rush—Ivy—Evermore

Exhibit A: Gold Rush

- We all know that evermore is folklore’s sister record, but i think taylor was invitings us to look into it literally

- gold rush is the only song that mentions folklore with “my mind turns your life into folklore”—> NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT SHE JUST THREW THAT IN THERE

gold rush talks about a girl pining for someone seemingly loved by everyone, and it is clear that she does not have him yet. it is possible that she is longing to have an affair with her sister’s man, hence,,,, IVY

Exhibit B: Ivy

we know that ivy is about infidelity but its connection to gold rush is made stronger by its lyrics: “your touch brought forth an incandescent glow”

more proof that they are sisters- “old widow goes to the stone every day // my house of stone, your ivy grows” (‘old widow’ is her sister who, well, visits her every day. she is a widow because her marriage is basically already dead without her knowing kdksjsdjsjs)

CRAZY DETAIL: the sister in ivy says that her lover shall “drink her husband’s wine”.... more proof that they are sisters having the same dinner parties, possibly in the same compound lmao OK

“it’s a war, it’s a goddamn fight of my life” hell yeah it is lmao rip

Exhibit C: the poor sister’s POV, Evermore

“all was lost, sending signals to be double-crossed” :(

we know that ms evermore would be deeply hurt by her sister and her husband going behind her back... i mean WHAT ELSE COULD GIVE HER PAIN FOR EVERMORE ?///???

- there are possible connections to the other songs, (consider my evermore—> long story short theory i previously posted)

- and especially considering that ivy, tolerate it, and no body, no crime are rumored to be connected

- their connection still gives way to The Sister Arc considering the cheating sister seems afraid of her husband in ivy, and could very well feel that she is being tolerated instead of celebrated—-> leading to her having an affair with another man AND possibly being an accomplice in someone’s murder... her sister’s? Maybe!!!!

:>>>>> yea come back when i’m right

but also idk maybe u feel like confirming @taylorswift

[millllennia]

the evermore universe

(song titles are bolded for the sake of clarity because I use some song names as people names) 

okay so how I've figured it, there are four couples: 

Ivy and her partner, Este and Willow (which becomes Willow x Ivy but we’ll get to that), and Dorothea and Chris (I'm calling him Chris because Christmas because tis the damn season) and Taylor and Joe (because she made herself part of the universe so I can)

Dorothea and Chris are high school sweethearts. Dorothea is a pretty creative gal and daydreams about Chris all the time, which gives us gold rush. She leaves after graduation and becomes a movie star/celebrity. the song dorothea happens from Chris’ perspective 

She comes home for Christmas. tis the damn season happens. 

she’s a celebrity and she’s struggling with her mental health and she thought she just wanted a normal life and she’s now questioning all of that. Chris proposes, and champagne problems happens. 

I think closure could possibly be from Chris’ perspective? happiness is definitely from his perspective though ( “I was dancing when the music stopped” compared to “I dropped your hand while dancing” in champagne problems / “all the years I’ve given” they’ve been on and off for years / “would have loved you for a lifetime” he was going to propose). he’s a pretty forgiving guy (as seen in dorothea) so it makes logical sense that once he’s come out of the grief, he would have that very even, reasonable look on their relationship. 

I head canon that Taylor, Este and Dorothea were all friends and went to Olive Garden. this is the friend group (the couples Dorothea and Chris, Este and Willow, and Taylor and Joe, that Dorothea describes at the end of champagne problems (”our group of friends/don’t think we’ll say that word again”)

OKAY WE ARE LEAVING DOROTHEA AND CHRIS BUCKLE UP KIDS 

no body no crime is about Este’s husband (who I am going to call Willow) and his mistress (who I’m calling Ivy) who kill her and then move in together (obviously in loose terms but like yes) 

ivy and willow (the songs) are about the same relationship (between the people I’m calling Ivy and Willow). willow has a lot of like low-key references ( “If it was an open/shut case” talking about the disappearance of Este which would have had some legal shit /  “there was one prize I’d cheat to win” cheating. obvious link here / “I’ll meet you after dark” sneaking around because they are both MARRIED or at the very least, they are both taken) where ivy is more direct. Ivy describes the fear about her partner finding out about Willow (”he’s going to burn this house to the ground”) but obviously then leaves him to be with Willow once they get rid of Este. 

cowboy like me is another song that I think is also from the perspective of Ivy/Willow. they are outlaws and they found each other and they're in love and it seems like a happily ever after. 

Este’s friend (Taylor) kills Willow by staging the car accident that is described in coney island. The song is from the perspective of Ivy. She’s looking back on the flawed relationship she had with Willow (y’know, an affair and murder aren’t a great set up for a happy healthy time). 

this leaves us with tolerate it, long story short, marjorie, and evermore. 

if you look at tolerate it from the perspective of someone that wants to be enough but never feels like they (completely independent of their partner’s actions) than tolerate it could be part of the Dorothea x Chris story. It doesn’t matter what she does, she never feels like she’s enough, and so she projects that as her partner not “celebrating her love” and only “tolerating” her presence. 

if you look at tolerate it as a song about an emotionally abusive relationship, that could very well be Ivy and her partner before Ivy met Willow. She wants to say that it’s all in her head but he’s emotionally distant and if he found out she was cheating on him, he’d burn their house down, so he sounds pretty terrible. it would make sense why Ivy is willing to take all the risks to be with Willow because she’s trying to leave that terrible relationship. 

Because Taylor is part of the evermore universe, marjorie is still about her grandmother and it’s still a beautiful tribute and we aren’t making that song part of the terrible cheating/lying/messy marriages. long story short can also still be about Taylor and 2016 and Joe because Taylor is part of the universe (though obviously she didn’t kill anyone irl so the evermore universe is like our universe except with more murder). 

evermore could be from literally anyone’s perspective. Taylor, with her new outlook on life. Dorothea, healing and grieving the loss of Chris, who is also hurting. Ivy, who is grieving the death of Willow and also looking back on a life that she made a right mess of. whoever you think it’s about, the meaning doesn’t change. it’s closure and peace and the realization that nothing is forever, including pain. 

I think that folklore fits in with this storyline but I haven’t had the chance to go through it song by song yet so if anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them