History Music / EvelynEvelyn

(Oh, and that debut album? It features Kim and Zoe Boekbinder, Creator/MargaretCho, Corn Mo, Chantal Claret, Frances Cobain, Creator/NeilGaiman, Ethan and Ari Gold, Eugene Mirman, Franz Nicolay, Reverend Peyton, Music/TeganAndSara Quin, Soko, [[Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence Jimmy Urine]], Kirsten Vangsness, Andrew W.K., [[Music/MyChemicalRomance Gerard Way]] and Music/WeirdAlYankovic on guest vocals.)

[[DirectLineToTheAuthor Discovered]] in 2007 by Music/AmandaPalmer and Music/JasonWebley, Evelyn Evelyn (Eva and Lynn Neville) are a pair of ConjoinedTwins from Walla Walla, Washington. They perform vaudeville songs with jazzy melodies, telling the story of their lives to their newfound audience: stories about their childhood being locked inside a chicken coop, their abduction into a pedophile ring, their years in slavery at a travelling circus with their two-headed elephant friends Elephant Elephant, and their eventual rise to fame over Myspace.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:

* AudienceParticipationSong: "Elephant Elephant".

* CerebusSyndrome: They describe their own birth as one of the many "tragic events of September". They were raised in a chicken coop and only escaped when their owner died, got abducted and prostituted in a pedophile ring, were then forced to perform as part of a freak show, and lived their whole life on the run. The only friends they ever had were taken from them.

* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Very {{Squick}}y version with the French Canadian title character of "Sandy Fishnets".
* FilleFatale: Sandy Fishnets gets forced into being one.
* FunWithAcronyms: Two groups come forward to impose their ideals on the twins during their tenure at the circus: F.A.S.T.E.N. (the Foundation for Always Separating Siamese Twins Everywhere Now) and S.P.L.I.T. (the Society for the Preservation of Linked Identical Twins).

* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: "Tragic Events Pt.1" tells the story of the girls' birth, which amounts to a comically long chain reaction of one terrible thing happening after another, resulting in the death of four humans and a truckload of chickens.

* MurderBallad: "You Only Want Me 'Cause You Want My Sister".

* {{Retraux}}: "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?"

* TwinThreesomeFantasy: Played for maximum {{Squick}} with their backstory, and dark humour in "You Only Want Me 'Cos You Want My Sister".

* CrossCastRole: One of the twins is played by Jason Weebly.

* FilkSong: "My Space". And it's so awfully dated, as well.

** Doubles as a BittersweetEnding, since this most likely means we won't be getting a second Evelyn Evelyn album - but if it means the girls have finally found peace, that's completely alright.

* DeusAngstMachina: The twins' backstory. Their mother dies in childbirth - fair enough, one would imagine the birth of conjoined twins could have complications. Then the doctor tries to separate the twins with a chainsaw. Then the sheriff arrives and shoots the doctor. Then the chainsaw hits their father and kills him. Then the sheriff decides to drive them to an orphanage, but his car is hit by a truck and ''he'' dies. Then they spend the first six years of their life being raised in a chicken coop... and it goes on like this, to a ridiculous extent.

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: They were originally named Eva and Lyn by Mrs. Bouldger, but nobody ever bothered to remember which was which.

* DisabledMeansHelpless: Averted. The twins are completely self-taught musicians, eager to make it big, and were able to escape two of their four abusive home situations (the chicken coop and the circus) with no outside help. The reason they need Amanda and Jason (and Sxip) isn't because of their physical condition, but because their long isolation and emotional trauma has left them socially inept and unable to communicate well with media and fans. Unfortunately, backlash saw a lot of people CompletelyMissingThePoint on this one.

[[LiteraryAgentHypothesis Discovered]] in 2007 by Music/AmandaPalmer and Music/JasonWebley, Evelyn Evelyn (Eva and Lynn Neville) are a pair of ConjoinedTwins from Walla Walla, Washington. They perform vaudeville songs with jazzy melodies, telling the story of their lives to their newfound audience: stories about their childhood being locked inside a chicken coop, their abduction into a pedophile ring, their years in slavery at a travelling circus with their two-headed elephant friends Elephant Elephant, and their eventual rise to fame over Myspace.

* RapeAsDrama: While the twin's entire backstory is a ridiculous [[TraumaKongaLine chain of terrible events]] that keep outdoing themselves with how horrible they are, their time at the Underwood is, while presented in an uncannily neutral tone, easily the most gruesome chapter of their life. It's a child brothel and a child porn production site run by a middle-aged woman who introduces all her clients to the children as their "uncles", and the sexual acts they're forced to perform with them as "games". Some clients get especially violent with the girls. Whenever any of them object to this abuse, Mrs. Boulger tells them that "family is family" and "blood is thicker than water".

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The twins started out shyly performing encores for Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley concerts. When the audience really took to them, the sisters released their debut ConceptAlbum in 2010 and subsequently toured the world, always [[{{Kayfabe}} accompanied by Amanda and Jason]] wherever they go.

The twins have a [[http://twitter.com/EvelynEvelyn Twitter feed]], a [[http://www.myspace.com/evelynevelyn MySpace account]] and a [[http://www.evelynevelyn.com/ Web site]], where you can buy them a trip to the moon, if you like.

!!This musician shows examples of:

* CircusOfFear

* FilleFatale: Sandy Fishnets.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The Evelyn's leitmotif is featured in "Evelyn Evelyn" and in the background of all the "Tragic Events" tracks.

* MoodWhiplash: On the CD, the TearJerker "Sandy Fishnets" is followed immediately by the cheerful ditty "Elephant Elephant". Same thing with "Tragic Events, Pt. 1" and "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?"

* RapeAsDrama: While the twin's entire backstory is a ridiculous [[TraumaKongaLine chain of terrible events]] that keep outdoing themselves with how horrible they are, their time at the Lake Lodge is, while presented in an uncannily neutral tone, easily the most gruesome chapter of their life. It's a child brothel and a child porn production site run by a middle-aged woman who introduces all her clients to the children as their "uncles", and the sexual acts they're forced to perform with them as "games". Some clients get especially violent with the girls. Whenever any of them object to this abuse, Mrs. Boulger tells them that "family is family" and "blood is thicker than water".
** Just to add to the horror of the situation: It is briefly mentioned that Mrs. Boulger has her own three children living at the Lake Lodge as well. Are they as well being forced into prostitution, by their own mother?