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For many of the young girls in the audience, it was their first concert.
After seeing Taylor Swift's "Fearless Tour" at EnergySolutions Arena Tuesday, they will soon come to the innocence-ending realization that 99 percent of the concerts they will see in their lives will never come close to matching their first.
In front of a sold-out arena, the 19-year-old Swift exhibited the showmanship that eludes many fellow performers twice or three times her age, and brought a spectacle that pulled off the rare feat of being a feast for the eyes while never overshadowing the important part: the music.
The 17-song, 130-minute concert drew from Swift's two albums, her 2006 self-titled debut and last November's "Fearless," an album with pop-country songs that will be lodged in both the pop and country charts for a long while. Both albums were either written or co-written by Swift.
The best parts of the concert were when Swift would stand at the end of a catwalk that extended from the main stage into the crowd, looking in awe at the adoring crowd, taking it all in, with what appeared to be tears in her eyes. Maybe she is a great actress, or applied eye moisturizer, but she acted if was as if she was living a life that had occupied much of her dreams. After a long, rapturous applause that followed "Tim McGraw," Swift giggled, stared out at the audience in amazement and remarked, "I promise you, I will never forget that."
Swift was an amiable frontwoman who...