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HETALIA SHIPS AS SONGS OFF OF “EVERMORE” BY TAYLOR SWIFT

WILLOW: Denmark x Norway

“The more that you say, the less I know, wherever you stray I follow. I’m begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that’s my man. You know that my train could take you home, anywhere else is hollow. I’m begging for you to take my hand, wreck my plans, that’s my man.”

The first song on the album, and the lead single off of Evermore, Willow tells the tale of a couple with their fair share of ups and downs, who always find their way back to one another in the end. The song strikes me as being told from Norway’s perspective, who finds himself still enamoured with Denmark despite what he puts their relationship through. Lyrics such as, “I’m like the water when your ship rolled in that night, rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife.” And the second part of the bridge, “wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark, show me the places where the others gave you scars. Now this is an open-shut case, I guess I should’ve known from the look on your face; every bait and switch was a work of art.” Really sell this as being a strong pick for DenNor for me.

CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS: France x Scotland

“‘Cause I dropped your hand while dancing, left you out there standing crestfallen on the landing, champagne problems. Your mom’s ring in your pocket, my picture in your wallet. Your heart was glass, I dropped it. Champagne problems. / Dom Pérignon, you brought it. No crowd of friends applauded: your hometown skeptics called it champagne problems. You had a speech, you’re speechless; love slipped beyond your reaches and I couldn’t give a reason. Champagne problems. / and hold your hand while dancing, never leave you standing crestfallen on the landing with champagne problems. Your mom’s ring in your pocket, her picture in your wallet: you won’t remember all my champagne problems.”

One of the most beloved songs on this album by fans, I actually wrote a one shot inspired by this one- but with SveNor instead. Champagne Problems is a song about the end of a relationship, exploring the perspective of a woman who’s just rejected her boyfriend’s proposal, and the feeling of guilt and lack of understanding as to why she wasn’t ready. At the end of the song, her ex finds a new partner, who gives him the love she never could. Maybe it’s the strong theme of champagne throughout this song, but it gives me serious France vibes, and I debated between both EngFra and ScotFra for this, but ultimately, Scotland and his intense longing for independence won me over. Maybe England is the person France ends up with 👀

GOLD RUSH: France x Germany

“What must it be like to grow up that beautiful, with your hair falling into place like dominoes? I see me padding ‘cross your wooden floors, with my eagles t-shirt hanging from the door. At dinner parties, I’ll call you out on your contrarian shit, and the coastal town we wandered ‘round had never seen a love as pure as it. And then it fades into the grey of my day-old tea, ‘cause it could never be. / What must it be like to grow up that beautiful, with your hair falling into place like dominoes? My mind turns your life into folklore: I can’t dare to dream about you anymore. At dinner parties, won’t call you out on your contrarian shit, and the coastal town we never found will never see a love as pure as it, ‘cause it fades into the grey of my day-old tea, ‘cause it will never be.”

My personal favourite song off the album, “Gold Rush” is about falling in love with someone who is desired by everyone, who you see as out of your league, but knowing it can’t happen because you don’t like the fame that would come with the relationship. This song is heavy GerFra vibes from me, told from Germany’s perspective. I believe lines like, “everybody wants you, everybody wonders what it would be like to love you” could easily reflect France, and lines like, “I don’t like anticipating my face in a red flush” and “I don’t like that falling feels like flying til the bone crush” could reflect Germany’s shyness and lack of confidence surrounding the idea of love and falling in love. I did consider EngFra for this song too, considering the tea motif, however I believe Germany to be more shy around both the idea of love and fame.

‘TIS THE DAMN SEASON: America x England

“We could call it even, you could call me babe for the weekend. ‘Tis the damn season, write this down. I’m staying at my parent’s house, and the road not taken looks real good now. Time flies, messy is the mud on your truck tires. Now I’m missing your smile, hear me out, we could just ride around, and the road not taken looks real good now; and it always leads to you in my hometown.”

The story of a love you chose not to pursue, and constantly coming back to it every time you return home, I think this song fits almost perfectly for America and England. A pursuit of fame over genuine love, the song talks about this connection between the main character and her former lover being unlike any other. I’ll be completely honest, it was the lines, “so I’ll go back to L.A. (…) and wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I’m fakin.” That fully sold me on using America and England for this song, and the idea of England still living in (and very much being) America’s hometown was a little too good to ignore.

TOLERATE IT: Lithuania x Belarus

“And I wait by the door like I’m just a kid, use my best colours for your portrait, lay the table with the fancy shit and watch you tolerate it. If it’s all in my head, tell me now, tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow! I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it. / Break free and leave us in ruins, took this dagger in me and removed it, gain the weight of you then lose it, believe me I could do it! If it’s all in my head, tell me now, tell me I’ve got it wrong somehow. I know my love should be celebrated, but you tolerate it.”

I’ll be honest, LietBela was not a ship I expected to be here, but upon listening to the song, I could help but draw parallels to Lithuania’s canon crush on belarus, who definitely doesn’t feel the same way. Tolerate it is, pretty obviously, about being desperately in love with someone who merely tolerates it, and at the end finding the inner strength to leave. I find the lyric, “I take your indiscretions all in good fun.” Reminds me especially of Lithuania’s one sided crush. Plus, I appreciate imagining Lithuania standing up for himself at the end, finding the strength he maybe thought he had lost over the years. The Baltics are tougher than they look, damn it!

HAPPINESS: Sweden x Norway

“There’ll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you, both of these things can be true. There is happiness past the blood and bruise, past the curses and cries, beyond the terror in the nightfall, haunted by the look in my eyes that would’ve loved you for a lifetime. Leave it all behind and there is happiness. / there’ll be happiness after me, but there was happiness because of me, both of these things I believe, there is happiness in our history. Across our great divide, there is a glorious sunrise, dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight. Leave it all behind, and there is happiness. / there’ll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you, both of these things can be true, there is happiness in our history. Across our great divide, there is a glorious sunrise, dappled with the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight. Leave it all behind, oh, leave it all behind. Leave it all behind, oh, leave it all behind and there is happiness.”

In my opinion, Happiness is Taylor’s most mature break up song, as it centres around making peace with the end of a relationship you were in for years, and learning that no one is to blame. Just wishing well for both you and your now ex. So, it sees suitable to give it to Sweden and Norway, who had a pretty caring marriage and managed to become best friends afterwards. There is a repeat of the line “you haven’t met the new me yet” which also becomes, “I haven’t met the new me yet” which I think could be a beautiful way to express norway finally getting his independence after centuries of longing for it.

IVY: Hungary x Prussia

“Oh, goddamn, my pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand taking mine, but it’s been promised to another. Oh, I can’t stop you putting roots in my dreamland. My house of stone, your ivy grows and now I’m covered in you.”

Considered one of the best songs on the album lyrically, at its core, Ivy is about falling in love with someone whilst you’re already married to someone else. Does this one really need an explanation? There aren’t too many stand out lyrics in this one for me to identify it as PruHun, as they mainly focus on the risk of this affair and how the main character has gotten bored of her current husband, however, I will identify the line, “so tell me to run or dare to sit and watch what we’ll become and drink my husband’s wine.” Which I think very well reflects how in canon, Prussia doesn’t seem to care too much that Austria is in the picture, it reflects his boldness and cockiness in continuing to pursue Hungary. Also, I briefly knew someone from Austria who said their region specialised in white wine, so 👀.

COWBOY LIKE ME: America x Russia

“You’re a cowboy like me, perched in the dark, telling all the rich folks anything they want to hear, like “it could be love.” I could be the way forward, only if they pay for it. You’re a bandit like me, eyes full of stars, hustling for the good life. Never thought I’d meet you here; it could be love. We could be the way forward, and I know I’ll pay for it.”

Cowboy Like Me pretty obviously had to go to a ship involving America, and I’ll admit I’m not too sure on AmeRus (could be because I personally dislike this ship 😅), but I’m comfortable enough in the decision. Whilst this song is obviously about two cowboys, it also reflects two people with dark pasts who did what they could to survive, eventually falling for one another even though they’re doomed to fail, perfectly reflected in the lyrics, “and the skeletons in both our closets plotted hard to fuck this up.” And “now you hang from my lips like the gardens of Babylon. With your boots beneath my bed, forever is the sweetest con.” Which are also the lines that I think reflect how this song could work for AmeRus. They’re both away they’ve done bad things, and they’re both aware this can’t last too long, but it feels nice in the moment.

LONG STORY SHORT: Norway x Finland

“And I fell from the pedestal, right down the rabbit hole, long story short, it was a bad time. Pushed from the precipice, cling to the nearest lips, long story short it was the wrong guy. Now I’m all about you.”

Honestly, I think this could work for almost any norway ship, because I find this chorus pretty well depicts Norway going from his glorious viking days, to suffering in a marriage with Denmark, and moving onto his marriage with Sweden, before finally being able to be with someone he truly loves. I debated between both ScotNor and FinNor for this, but ultimately decided on FinNor because of the lines, “And you passed right by, I was in the alley surrounded on all sides.” And “and he’s passing by, rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky, and he feels like home.” I think it could so easily apply for FinNor as, despite being literal neighbours, they have relatively little history together. In a sense, they did just pass right by one another. Besides, I also think the lines, “and we live in peace, but if someone comes for us this time I’m ready.” Fits way too well with Finland’s perspective on this relationship to ignore, really.

CLOSURE: Finland x Russia

“Yes, I got your letter. Yes, I’m doing better. It cut deep to know you, right to the bone. Yes, I got your letter. Yes, I’m doing better. I know that it’s over, I don’t need your closure.”

Now, I did also heavily consider Ireland x England for this one, because as much as it works for RusFin, it works for them too. However, I chose this one for the sake of them not being brothers, plus the history is less recent. Still, you can imagine my points for both. Closure is a song about an ex who treated you poorly, attempting to reach out and befriends with you. I believe it would be told from Finland’s point of view, perfectly told from the verse, “don’t treat me like some situation that needs to be handled, I’m fine with my spite and my tears and my beers and my candles, I can feel you smoothing me over.” And also reflected on more modern relationships, where they awkwardly tiptoe around keeping on positive terms so as not to piss one another off, “I know I’m just a wrinkle in your new life, staying friends would iron it out so nice.”

EVERMORE: Norway x Scotland

“And I was catching my breath, staring out an open window, catching my death. And I couldn’t be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar, that this pain would be for evermore. / and I was catching my breath, barefoot in the wildest winter, catching my death. And I couldn’t be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar, that this pain would be for evermore. / and I was catching my breath, floors of a cabin creaking under my step. And I couldn’t be sure, I had a feeling so peculiar, this pain wouldn’t be for evermore.”

A fourth Norway ship, but to be fair, when a song mentions both wild winters and a cabin? It has to be used for Norway. This one hurts, but I’ll persevere. Evermore is a breakup song, about a woman trying to piece together the end of her relationship with a man she cared so deeply about, who she loved so dearly. Another line that ties this to Norway is, “writing letters, addressed to the fire.” I definitely have a headcanon that when a feeling is too strong, Nor writes it out in a letter that he then destroys. Usually by fire. Later on in the song, the ex boyfriend in question comes in, singing, “Oh, can we just get a pause? To be certain we’ll be tall again (…) I’m on waves, out being tossed. Is there a line that I could just go cross?” Which indicates to me the breakup would’ve been Scotland’s inability to stand Norway constantly pushing him away due to his intense fear of commitment. Lastly, some more lines I would like to point out, sung by Taylor, would be “and when I was shipwrecked, I thought of you. In the cracks of light, I dreamed of you. And it was real enough to get me through.” Which, whilst in the song I believe is supposed to show her getting through the break up, I think it’s definitely reasonable enough to show Scotland and Norway’s allyship, and Norway’s longtime pining. And hey, it’s not unrealistic to say Norway’s been on shipwrecks near the coast of Scotland before.

There we go!! All done! Now, I did leave out Coney Island, Right Where You Left Me and It’s Time to Go, I couldn’t think of ships for them 😅 so, if anyone has any recommendations for those ones, pls add it in reblogs! I’ve been wanting to do another post like this after the midnights one, glad to finally get this one up and posted!!

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