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[katyobsesses]

Sam Evans and "Speak Now" (2010)

Sam Evans is Taylor Swift's biggest fan (he totally sung one of her songs on the show, Disney+ just cut it out for some reason) so I've tasked myself to go through her discography and relate her songs to Sam in someway (an AU idea, when he could sing it in Canon, or when someone else could sing it to or about him)

Feel free to use any of these as prompts for fanart/fanfic and let me know if you do!

Albums: Taylor Swift (2006) | Fearless (2008) | Speak Now (2010) | Red (2012) | 1989 (2014) | Reputation (2017) | Lover (2019) | Folklore (2020) | Evermore (2020) | Fearless tv vault songs (2021) | Red tv vault songs (2021) | ALL POSTS

Here's Speak Now (2010) to continue our journey (lyrics linked)

Mine

I know this is Brittana's song but lets just pretend it's not for a moment.

Hevans vibes from the very first line. a NY AU where Sam, idk, moved to NY instead of Ohio but his family still had money troubles and he developed trust issues for some reason... This could really fit my fic Welcome To New York

You were in college working part-time waiting tables // Left a small town, and never looked back // I was a flight risk with a fear of falling // Wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts

Sparks Fly

S3 Hevans from a Pining Kurt POV. Him and Sam have gotten closer as Sam lives with The Hudmels, Or in the Summer between S3 and S4 (simply just for the Fireworks <3)

Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down // Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around // 'Cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

Back To December

this could work well for Samcedes in some ways

And I think about summer, all the beautiful times // I watched you laughing from the passenger side

Or a Hevans AU of some sort where Kurt and Sam had a falling out at some point after dating

I'm so glad you made time to see me // How's life? Tell me how's your family? // I haven't seen them in a while

Speak Now

This feels Blam like, like Blaine is about to Marry Kurt and Sam just wants to stand up and say-

Don't say "Yes", run away now // I'll meet you when you're out of the church at the back door // Don't wait or say a single vow // You need to hear me out

also works reversed as Hevans, mostly for the line:

And her snotty little family all dressed in pastel

which could be The Andersons depending on which fanon you subscribe to

Dear John

Definitly Sam after the Samtana breakup!

Well, maybe it's me // And my blind optimism // To blame // Or maybe it's you and your sick need // To give love then take it away

Mean

In my Taylor Swift instead of Justin Bieber Comeback AU, this is the last song instead of Sing, with everyone singing in a group. I know this isn't Sam centric, but it's Sam making everyone in the New Directions Swifties so... close enough. It's just such an ND song, very Loser Like Me-esque!

Someday, I'll be living in a big old city // And all you're ever gonna be is mean

The Story Of Us

Samcedes from Sam's POV, especially after Mercedes Graduates, then when Sam moves back to Ohio after trying it in New York.

It's not The End for them, though, at least not in my mind. It's just a few chapters in their story, maybe just the first book of a set

Oh, I'm scared to see the ending // Why are we pretending this is nothing? // I'd tell you I miss you but I don't know how // I've never heard silence quite this loud

Never Grow Up

Obviously Sam to/about Stevie and Stacey, especially after he leaves Kentucky, or when he moves to New York.

Your little hand's wrapped around my finger // And it's so quiet in the world tonight // Your little eyelids flutter 'cause you're dreaming // So I tuck you in, turn on your favorite night light

Enchanted

I have an unreleased fic for this, an outtake from my fic One More New Direction where Kurt and Sam sing this in Silly Love Songs.

But apart from that, maybe a S3 AU again for Hevans, where they dance around each other for the season (while Sam is also confused about if he likes Mercedes or Kurt more) and unfortunately they get together at the end of the year/start of the summer and then have to be either long distance or break up before Kurt goes to New York for college.

This is me praying that // This was the very first page // Not where the story line ends // My thoughts will echo your name // Until I see you again // These are the words I held back // As I was leaving too soon // I was enchanted to meet you

(this also fits so well with a storyline i have for OMND 'verse omg... like so perfectly)

Better Than Revenge

Sam to Finn after the Fabrevans breakup, like just switch the pronouns and it's perfect. Or Sam could not switch the pronouns and Finn would just be confused as all hell

Soon she's gonna find // Stealing other people's toys // On the playground won't make you many friends

Innocent

Maybe someone (Kurt/Mercedes/Blaine/Rachel??) singing it to Sam when he's kinda lost and unsure of himself and his path in life in S5?

Every one of us has messed up too // Lives change like the weather // I hope you remember // Today is never too late to be brand new //// It's alright, just wait and see // Your string of lights is still bright to me // Oh, who you are is not what you've been // You're still an innocent

Haunted

Mercedes about Sam leaving for Kentucky and starting to date Shane

Stood there and watched you walk away // From everything we had // But I still mean every word I said to you // He will try to take away my pain // And he just might make me smile // But the whole time I'm wishing he was you instead

Last Kiss

Samcedes Duet about Sam leaving (most of these seem to be about Sam leaving!) The first verse is obviously Mercedes, the second could be Sam (and makes it espcially sad as my headcanon birthday for Mercedes is July 10th!). I can 100% see this in my head, like split screens and sadness as they both walk though the halls of McKinley when Sam comes back. Maybe instead of Sam being all "leave Shane for me" he thinks Mercedes has moved on, and because Sam isn't doing everything to win her back Mercedes thinks Sam has moved on. Mutual Pining vibes.

Or possibly (because of the I keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are) it's mutual pining after Sam moves back to McKinley after New York

just a lot of Samcedes Mutual Pining

I'm not much for dancing // But for you I did

Long Live

Another song for the Comeback AU - there are just so many anthems for Sam to choose from! (this is the one I chose for OMND) This one just feels so New Directions to me

When they gave us our trophies // And we held them up for our town //// And the cynics were outraged // Screaming, "This is absurd!" // 'Cause for a moment a band of thieves // In ripped-up jeans got to rule the world

Or Sam sings it when they win Nationals? or at his Graduation? I'm seeing a Blam AU

Ours

Hevans feels, so many Hevans feels omg. There is so much queer allegory in these lyrics! I can totally imagine a Hevans Duet, while Kurt is in New York maybe. I feel like most of it is from Kurt's POV with little bits from Sam's. I am having all of the feels right now.

But this love is ours //// And it's not theirs to speculate // If it's wrong and // Your hands are tough // But they are where mine belong and // I'll fight their doubt and give you faith // With this song for you

If This Was A Movie

this once again feels like a Samcedes song, for either time they broke up.

Come back, come back, come back to me like // You would, you would if this was a movie // Stand in the rain outside 'til I came out

Superman

Sam sings this in my Hevans Bodyswap Soulmate AU in Chapter 4

could maybe also be sung about Sam by Kurt after he stands up to Karofsky for Kurt.

I watch superman fly away // You've got a busy day today // Go save the world, I'll be around

[satellitesunset]

There are three characters on Glee who are REALLY constructed around their relationship to masculinity… Other characters get arcs around it, but there are three where it is a very central arc.

One is Spencer, whose story there is VERY explicitly a queer story. He outright talks about needing to be more masculine than anyone else so that people don’t write him off as “the gay one”… I really wish the show had given him more than two conversations about this. And I also get why the show drew his arc against Kurt specifically, but there are other characters who would have made more sense to connect with him… If Sam were canonically queer, maybe him, but I also think there’d have been something interesting in explicitly drawing Spencer against KAROFSKY in S6. If the show had been better about following through its themes.

One is Artie, whose story is about building an identity both incorporating and aside from his disability… I have issues with how the show portrays Artie’s relationship with his body and his masculinity, but I also think that the surface reading there — the disability one — makes enough sense on its own that I don’t think it NEEDS to be queered specifically… HOWEVER, there are certainly facets of my own queerness that I see in Artie, and I am on-board with queer readings of Artie’s arc here…

And then there’s Sam, and I just really feel like a queer reading of Sam’s body image, masculinity, and popularity stuff… It just makes too much sense to me to ignore. It’s not just about the internal stuff in Sam’s character, either… But it’s about who that character is drawn up against in those arcs… In Season 2, Sam’s drawn against Finn, and to a lesser extent Karofsky… In Season 3, it’s against Blaine and Shane…. In Season 4 and 5, he doesn’t really have a foil, but his body image and masculinity stuff is specifically drawn against Artie… but also tied into Blaine… Sam finds himself drawn into self-discovery arcs around every queer major character in the show, pretty much. He dates Santana and Brittany (… and Quinn)… he’s best friends with Blaine… there’s both Duets and Rumours with Kurt… He gets significant screentime with Spencer… He’s Kurt’s biggest defender against Karofsky…

the reply is a bit late, but there are so many great ideas that i wanted to articulate my response properly.

Spencer

Spencer, out of all the s6 newbies, is the biggest lost potential, because as you mentioned, from how Kurt and him, dare I say are opposite halves of the same coin, to how both he and Sam had to prove their own masculinity, but most importantly how his story is parallel to that of David's.

You have Spencer who, despite his surface acceptance of his sexuality, still has a lot of internalized homophobia, ( I rewatched some of his sense, and the line "we have nothing in common", stood out to me, because it reflects how he never sees himself fitting in with the community) and how interacting with David, a gay jock who has also gone through internalized homophobia, could clear up his insecurities.

Artie

Artie, unintentionally, is a very queer-coded character, he makes a lot of' jokes' about finding men/guys attractive (the writer's biophobia is showing), I don't think I'm qualified to expand on how he, as a disabled guy has to prove his own masculinity but another line that pops in my mind is in s3 ep5 the first time (my beloathed) when he talks about hooking up with Brittany, made he feel like a 'real man', which just further proves my point (toxic masculinity yay)

Sam

there's so much to unpack with Sam, what you said is so on point,

A lot of Sam's arcs are inherently queer, no denying that from how he's established to how he evolves, from s2 this well-meaning insecure jock who's going through the conflict of popularity serving as a parallel between him and Finn in S2, and I know from experience how going to a same-sex school influences how you view your identity, like it fucks you up, then into s3, from being a stripper AGE 16!! and feeling like being popular is the only way to get the girl, and how did having dyslexia make him feel lesser and like his worth lies only on his body, especially with, as you mentioned, being pitied against Shane and Blaine, and how he continuously interact with other queer characters.

if were also discussing the topic, we can expand on Puck (a deep dive into the hyper-sexual nature of his character and the deeper reasoning of why he hooked up with older women) Jake (the intersectionality of race and masculinity), and Kurt and Blaine both as gay men and how they affect each other but also individually, (for Kurt, on how he viewed masculinity and how it relates to his sexuality which is a topic I kinda covered the other day, and specifically both his arc in s3 and s5).