So Lovejoy's Music Has Lore... 

subscribe for more overthinking things which don't really matter

For me, the "'Cause why'd you have to kill my cat?" was a metaphor of "Curiosity killed the cat and satisfaction brought it back" instead of a literal cat being killed. Just something I wanted to say :)

This man overthinks basically everything, and i love it

joe, mark and ash staring at wilbur: you did what?

Everything Wilbur does must have continuity, it's the law

Wilbur has explained that the are you alright album is just different stories of him going out and drinking and pebble brain is him breaking up with England.

Wilbur could write a random songs and animagician could literally turned it onto an arg story that somehow made sense

Evil animagician be like: There is no lore in Lovejoy and Wilbur's songs, its just a bunch of cool indie songs and nothing else. P.S. Finished the vid, super as always

Wilbur said at one point that his writing style isn't good people making bad decisions, it's bad people making easy decision

One month from now: proof that the story of Lovejoy and wilbur’s solos are connected

I think the easiest way to know that lovejoy's music has lore, is to realize that wilbur, whose the singer and song writer for most (if not all) songs, LOVES ARGs and has already had lore in his personal albums.

Imagine Will sees this and is like “Huh. We should make this canon.”

Me before watching video: can’t I just enjoy music in peace? My brain after video: 👁👄👁 All seriousness this video was awsome. Only Animagician can spin a seemingly normal indie band and make a massive conspiracy arg thing

Wilbur starts one ARG: The whole community to every song wilbur made: Coincidence? I think not

“it’s all futile it’s all pointless” is an song that wilbur wrote for his “maybe i was boring” album. it talks about a partner that wilbur had who was lazy and non productive.

BRB going to listen to the whole album again through this perspective

I really was thinking about the background lore in Pebble Brain when wilbur said that one of the problems people found with Are You Alright is that it was too party-y/without much substance. I tried to do my own take but I must say it fell far behind yours! Love your stuff man, keep it up

"why did you have to kill my cat" is a refrence to the term "curiousity killed the cat" implyong that the singer and the person in question got back together as evidenced by the next line. its nothing more than a clever line

You know its gonna be an interesting 15 minutes when animagician uploads man. Keep up the work dude! YALL DONT DO A TRUE TRAIN YOURE DESTROYING MY NOTIFIS IM TRYNA SLEEP MAN

Probably not the intentional meaning of the songs from what I gathered on Wilbur’s most recent stream but it works really well, nice one Mr Magician!

For those wondering how he finds out things like these. He is an introvert- Introverts tend to be more observant... Am I right Animagic?

As a big lovejoy fan and animagician fan, I’m excited!!

Love some of the times where there’s a serious analysis playing over Wilbur looking like he’s loosing his shit in the background (1:42 as an example)

3:50 pretty sure it's actually "chance, we ain't gonna hurt you" but I like this theory so we gonna roll with it

The lyric is actually "Chance, we ain't gonna hurt you". But other than that really great video as always, Ani :)) Keep doing cool things

Hey Animagician, thanks for featuring my videos (the pebblebrain lyrics) in your well-put together video, i really enjoyed your analysis. Anyway would it be alright if you credit me and perhaps the other lyric channels in the description? I think it would be very much appreciated since we all put in lots of time and effort in editing them. Thanks! :)

very cool video! just wanted to stick out the reminder all these songs/stories are lovejoy’s, not just from wilbur but from the whole band (it’s not just wilburs music)

So can we get the exact order the songs take place in the story? It would be cool to make a playlist of the story in order

I really like this theory, but what if it strings in with the other timeline with William? William gives up with Pandora, and starts trying to pull his life back together. He's still working as a janitor, obviously, but he meets Felicity. Felicity decides to start talking to William, because maybe he'd be willing to date her and he is. Lo and behold, William is still William, and is just as desperate for a relationship as Felicity. A perfect recipe for disaster. The only thing that this would change from the video would be the names--interchange Sam for William. William is still kind of stuck up, but he's at least figured out how to be nice by now. Charles and Jared would be pretty similar for William too, since each of them took away someone he loved (luckily William isn't Jared and doesn't stab anyone, he just gets drunk and angry I think). Tl:dr, I like the theory, though personally think Sam is William (from the other video), who is desperately trying to pull his life together and failing

I knew there was a story behind, but of course I thought it was more related to life experiences. I like to translate in LT, so when I was translating Sex sells, by the force to put lyrics in my language, I noticed it talks about a cheating, status and dramatic story. When Ani uploaded the other video about Wilbur's songs, it was funny and clever for me, but so I didn't want to make the same questions to Lovejoy, but yeah.

The cat line is from the phrase "curiosity killed the cat" saying that the girl(subject) made him curious and dragged him down a spiral and killed his "cat" maybe meaning his love life or wanting to be curious

We all know corpse killed will's cat

I've thought that the fall was about dissolusionment with the british government since when it came up, so i think that fit's well with the theory, a song about a depressed politician ranting his point of view also being about that politicians slip from faith in a government they support would work pretty well i feel.

I never even thought about this stuff, but of course you have. Well done honestly

It’s amazing how lovejoy can make absolute BOPS and also make really interesting lore

You've out done yourself again animagician!! Holy cow o_O

This guy could find lore in a brick wall and I'm here for it

In “you’ll understand when you’re older” “Sam” says, “and if you think that it gets better-“ which doesn’t seem noticeable right? BUT, as a person who listens to any song sang by Wilbur Soot WAYY too much, I noticed that it sounded a lot like, or exactly the same that Wilbur sang “and if you think that it gets better, darling take a look at me”. Quite maybe Charles didn’t see anything wrong here, and didn’t know about “sam”..but maybe “Sam” is “Jared” or yknow……. It’s all just music-

all this from a couple songs. Wilbur is a mastermind and you are even more of a genius for decoding all this

"why'd you have to kill my cat" curiosity killed the cat, it could be a metaphor

I have damn near all the Wilbur Soot and Lovejoy songs memorized except maybe “main character syndrome” and a couple other unreleased songs, with over 30 hours streamed of them streamed all time, so I can sing along with them without even thinking about it, yet, at the same time my brain can’t comprehend the lyrics so all this is news to me. does that make sense? no? good :)

i love stuff like this, even if its not the intent (which for wilbur it is not unlikely) i love that you were able to find the story in it, and i will now exclusively be listening to lovejoy in this order! cant believe i only found this video now!

The fact that he used blue and green for the couple is hilarious

I like how people can get so creative. Even if this isn't what Wilbur intended, its just really fascinating when people come up with these theories :)

DrivenTick actually also did a very good breakdown of all of Wilburs and Lovejoys EPs

Wilbur is a story writer at heart and not even god can take that away

Some have been saying that the end of "It's all pointless, it's all futile" they sing: I need those kids, instead of eat

I knew all the songs were linked together! I was 99% sure I heard almost all the titles of the new episode in the first ep

Note: This is just my theory :D Best thing about art is that it can be interpreted different ways. I see sex sells as someone killing there lover with the lines: And I'll listen carefully With ears pressed to the floor As you make your way downstairs You haven't got far to fall Now it's red, now it's dead Now it's everything she needed Now it's four open doors Pillows pressed under your knees Now it's a sad, sappy sucker To ensure a happy ending And the fall as someone slowly falling into insanity, and at the end him dyeing.

It's not a story, it's just Wilbur singing about past experiences, and just a relationship

I don’t remember if this was in the song, but I think the part “cultured man, venetian suntan, red wine and club bands, viagra pills on the night stand” is Sam mocking Charles’s pros to Felicity and “How’s it feel? How’s it feel to be so loved? How’s it feel to be so loved yet so alone?” is Sam telling Felicity that even tho Charles is “there” and “loves” Felicity, she is still alone, and Sam would be a better partner, since he always took care of Felicity and “played the empath” I hope you like my theory:)))

"The most infamous Lovejoy line" Me: Damn my friend killed my cat that's some relatable lyrics **becomes a Lovejoy fan**

Oh gosh hearing you talk and finding the smallest details to make a theory just gave me so much nostalgia from my undertale era, watching all the lore and everything... gosh I feel like if I was an old person talking about their experiences-

We NEED a continuation of this with wake up and it’s over, I’m already piecing together the story

I love it when people make videos like theses cause it’s a little story plus music and they are easy to remember also it’s just two of my favourite things mashed together

I love the idea that Cause for Concern is just Hamilton's Reynold's Pamphlet

i love this idea so much and it’s caused me to look a lot deeper into the music as a whole because i think there’s a ton of stuff that’s super important which wasn’t included (also if these were mentioned i may have just missed them so sorry but) this is in order of the songs and is in no way chronological one day one day was talked about quite a lot so i don’t feel the need to go too in-depth about that but sex sells to me i feel like the song sex sells might be the most important song to the lore as it confirms the fact that 1) sam cares deeply about felicity even though she’s going out with a tory (charels) and really cares about her having a place to sleep and 2) the line “swore she’d never kiss a tory, but this boy was to good to lose” cause for concern and the song cause for concern feels to me like felicity in a way trying to convince sam that everything is fine and he doesn’t have any reason to be concerned oh yeah, you gonna cry? and then the song oh yeah, you gonna cry? seems really important, as it seems like sam ranting about or to charels about felicity leaving him for charels and to me it seems like sam knows that felicity does still miss him and doesnt even actually love charels, she’s just never satisfied with what she has. model busses and then i feel like a lot of important things from model busses, while we’re talked about a lot has a lot more meaning to it where sam is talking to felicity about the fact that she doesn’t love charels and that she’s just “scared of future” and is using charels as an escape from the money problems they had concrete & perfume i feel like concrete was covered really well and so was perfume you’ll understand when your older i feel like you’ll understand when your older is probably set earlier on in the lore when sam and felicity were still together but through the song i think it reveals that felicity was with charels while she was still with sam because as he says “you’re hiding a dark secret, but your talking in your sleep”, and it seems like felicity is in a way manipulating sam, by comforting him and acting like she cares about him “drying his tears” but most likely sam knows that it’s all a façade which we saw earlier in one day, but because he depends on her to make his life at work and at home bearable he’s too scared to leave her the fall i think the fall was covered very well, it seems like charels taking felicity out constantly to try and cover up his sadness and keep her with him because he knows she still misses sam, he talks about his problems with substance abuse and depression even naming the antidepressants “sertraline” and “prozac’s” it’s all futile! it’s all pointless then it’s all futile! it’s all pointless! like it’s from the perspective of sam as he looks back on his relationship with felicity and how when he got with her he “lost the passion that comes with living”, it implies that sam knows that felicity will never forget him no matter how hard she tries and shows he’s finally begging to get over her, it sounds like he’s speaking to felicity or about her to someone as he speaks directly about how he knows that her relationship with charels isn’t what she wanted it to be and she’s never gonna feel “naive love” again, however he shows that he isn’t actually fully over her when he says “and this is the part where i shut up and let you infest my brain, wrap your arms around my cortex dig you in and let you drain” knee deep at the atp then i feel like (though this video was made before lovejoy released knee deep at the atp) though knee deep at the atp isn’t a song made by lovejoy and was remade as a collab between lovejoy and los campesinos i still feel like it’s important to the lore and it sounds like a song from sams point of view in which him and felicity have just broken up, he reminisces about the time they time they spent together but then realised he’s the “B-side” and isn’t felicity’s priority anymore, she just cares way more about going out and having fun and left him for charels because he “took you to the beach” which i think ties back to the fall where charels talks about taking felicity on vacations this is so long omg

this may not be "canon" per se but my God is it convincing and well researched

This guy overthinks everything, and as the kid who zones out during class and makes a whole goddammed fantasy novel about that crack in the wall, I respect that.

Dude I wish there was a playlist on Spotify of the songs in lore order

okay, this is actually really cool. kjfkajdkjlfa Even if this isn't a real thing, and he's just really over thinking it, it's really fun to go back and listen to the songs, and slowly put the story together by yourself again.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Wilbur started a new arg with the lovejoy songs -

I wouldn’t put it passed Wilbur if he did an entire ARG through an album.

This reminds me of school. Overanalyzing every single text and somehow coming up with something completely far off, that somehow makes sense, but it's not what the teacher wanted so you still don't get a good grade

WOO, cant wait to see how it turned out

we need someone to edit these lyric by lyric or at least song by song

ARGs are getting harder and interesting.

when i heard "wake and it's over" i knew there was something in that ep, you can see (or hear) things that are linked in other musics if you pay attention

I thought something when in one song it said « imagine the kind of things he’d do to you if there weren’t so many cameras »

I think wilbur said he likes the idea of different songs and different eps telling a story

Fun fact about Model Buses: It's not about a man named Charles, it's a diss track on Boris Johnson. I am not kidding, take a look at the lyrics, it's awesome. Despite the fact that I can't say I'm convinced though, this was a very enjoyable video. I'd love to see the next EP get slotted into this somehow as well, these types of writing excerises are a lot of fun.

I really like the way you try to weave a throughline through the EP’s. It’s a really interesting way to look at it. Unfortunately, you have a lot of lyrics not exactly right, fogging the way you percieve the meaning. The biggest one is in sex sells. You percieve the narrator to say ‘he’ (the one with whom his girlfriend cheats on him) is a councilman. The actual lyric, however reads ‘his daddy works on the council’, which would make your interpretation a bit different.

LMAO I love how he made a whole conspiracy out of nowhere

I'm not sure if you know that but the LAST song of the EP is actually a quite old song from wilbur, back in the maybe i was boring album in 2019! The hole is MUCH deeper than we thought

I always figured there was some lore in all the songs but I had never looked into it

Wow. That video was really good and it makes so much sense because just on my own listening to it there seams to be a story so hearing someone piece it together was so cool!

I think this is a interesting interpretation of the lovejoys eps as a overall thematic connection and could easily be a fun way to look at all their songs. I guess however the songs standing on their own as songs about specific feelings and expression i find personally more meaningful to me, either way fun video :)

Imagine lovejoy is apart of Wilbur's new arg

I don't know why I cracked up at "It's a politician, named Charles."

I wonder how the new Album fits in with this? Also dam good job on the dedication!!

Straight chills, I’ve never realized this I’ve just been enjoying music! Thank you, wow! Everything makes so much more sense, subscribed!

This Video: And that is the end of the storyline, all done, yep, satisfying conclusion. Knee Deep at ATP: *fabricates into existence*

I knew I wasn’t crazy when I was trying to piece together the songs!

This video is so unbelievably well made, keep it up!

fun fact !! i went to the halloween gig and was stool next to joe from lovejoys parents and they were so nice !! they were talking about the lyrics and told us that joe was the one who wrote One Day and no cats were harmed and showed me and my friend a picture of him with a cat and that cause for concern was about a plane crash!! :)

It's funny how felicity's character sounds a lot like me irl and I have an internet boyfriend that is exactly like sam. i would always talk about my problems and he would always be there for me but i never returned the favor

Thanks! I was waiting for exactly that video!

About killing the cat - i think it comes from an idiom "curiousity killed the cat" Which can reffer to Felicity being curious about a different life with Charles and going for it and by that "killing Sam's cat"

I KNEW IT not the story but the part about the ARG. I can’t even explain how excited I am, I missed it the first time.

yeah i thought there was lore aswell, “oh yeah your gonna cry” felt like a continuation of “your new boyfriend” a couple years later

now we just need a part 2 linking the new songs to this timeline

I’ve been thinking about the “Stop. Cuz why’d you have to kill my cat?” And the dead cat as the logo.

Nice work mate, knowing the meaning behind music adds a lot more depth to it. Gonna enjoy lovejoy even more after this video! P.S. in Cause for Concern the lyric is "singing 'chance'", I thought your version sounded weird (cfc is one of my favorite songs, I know it well) so I looked it up and yeah, it's "chance".

Thank you for completely overthinking everything its almost therapeutic to listen to anyone ramble on about anything so thank you 😊 ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

I just want to add that when All Is Futile All Is Pointless was original released a few years ago in and EP called maybe I was boring. One of the songs was called Maybe I Was Boring and it talks about the relationship being dull and eventless so that ties in as well. Id strongly suggest Maybe I Was Boring and the OG All Is Futile All Is Pointless because of the different vibe it gives off, they are superrr good, and it ties into the story!

I'm quite late to the party but man is this video good. Love how you interpreted the songs and had them link with one another. Great script and editing too👍. Also, thanks for using my lyric video! Means a lot to me knowing my video was used in something so good😁

I watched this last night and have been thinking about it all day

Wilbur soot/boyfriend= Charles Girlfriend=Karen (in a line, Charles said "Karen, I keep your hair in the drain) Other Boyfriend= Jared (he talks about him in his " your boyfriend " song.)

Okay, the upbeat music might make It's all Futile, It's all Pointless sound like an optimistic song, however it in no way is a happy song. It tells the story of Sam and Felicity (same names, but different story mind you), where Felicity is better off, and Sam is broken. "I've lost the passion that comes with living since I started university" It clearly states that Sam misses his life before university, the life as a teenager, the carefree and happy times. "Took a geography course to learn the datelines and maybe use a sextant" He sought to learn the way the world works, and find some direction in life, get some clue about what he wants to do. "Now I press facsimiles" Sam is doing a boring monotonous job, or that his life is repetitive and has lost all excitement, or "passion" "You're exactly who you wanted to be, that's what you say" Felicity might not be the most pleased with her life, but she got what she always desired as a kid, which is "to watch TV, and sleep all day and lay in bed" That is, do nothing and rely on the rich guy she married, or become a gold digger. "You're forgetting that I've gotta go to work, and eat my food.... Maybe use a sextant" Sam is planning ahead about his life, he has some immediate objectives, or he's just desperate, but he still hasn't figured out what to do next. "I don't miss you, I miss the thought of what we were" Sam doesn't miss Felicity, he misses true love. He might be married to someone, but he misses the excitement and spark he had with Felicity. "Is this the part where I shut up, and let you infest my brain?" Sam craves for the chemistry he had with Felicity, and therefore let's here "infest" or manipulate his mind. "Wrap your arms around my cortex, dig you in and let you drain" Felicity wraps her arms around his "cortex" (interesting choice of words, cortex in biology means the external part of anything; Felicity can touch him physically, but her words infest his brain mentally; i.e, she's using words, as well as hormones, to draw Sam towards her, because she is in fact unhappy with her current life" "But it's okay, it's a strategy to make sure I remain" Sam might be beginning to have feelings for her, but he's interested in her newly acquired wealth as well, which ofcourse is his "strategy". "You'll never get rid of me, I'm like a fucking disease. I'll make a home in your gut, cuz it's somewhere warm to sleep" Wilbur's obsession for her grows, he also _kinda_ uses her to extract money from her current rich hubby/boyfriend. Because, it's apparent that Sam is broke. "And what was your thought when you realised that you'll never feel naiive love again?" Sam and Felicity had been together for quite some time, before their break up, because Felicity was Sam's first and last naiive love, and it was the same thing for Felicity as well. Sam chose by outward apperance, and Felicity did a super naiive move of fake dating to pretend to be cool at school/college. However, they did enjoy what they have, when it was a simpler time, and they miss it now. "Was it pain, or was it sickness, were you proud of who you'd been?" Sam asks Felicity to self reflect, and see what she truly wants in life. "The shyness waiting for his phonecalls, replaced by apathy and dating apps. You held his hands, it felt like flying. Now he's just another man" He explains that they want very different things in life. The reason that they felt that way was due to the fact that they had never been in love before, and they enjoyed a relationship, due to the fact that it was a relationship. It was never really the person. Or atleast it isn't anymore. "You'd rather he was inside than beside you" He tells her that she really hates him (Sam), and doesn't want a future with him actually. What she really wants is to "Watch TV and sleep all day, and lay in bed", which is something she won't get with Sam. "But he's talking marriage and a future. He's picking a lock he doesn't go into" Sam says that if they can get what they had in the past, he's ready to make an exception for her. Even though he knows, it won't work out. "His knife in a wound, he's a suture" There's always the ever looming presence of Charles (or the third party), who is more suited in fulfilling Felicity's childhood fantasy. It might not be ideal for Felicity herself, but she's better off this way. Summed Up: Both their lives are sad, but it won't be any happier if they were together, and the characters realise this throughout the song.

This man can find lore in anything