![]() ![]() After that, the girls, ages 6 to 8, would frequently put on spirited Taylor Swift dance parties in my living room. She loved it, and it turned out so did her two best friends - Sasha and Caroline - who are sisters. I gifted her a yellow Taylor T-Shirt I’d snagged at the show, and I played her some of the many sweet and bouncy songs from the “Fearless” album - “Love Story,” “Hey Stephen,” “You Belong With Me” and the like. ![]() But I’ve also been having some prickly exchanges with haters who spout their parroted lines about Swift - “She’s overrated” or “She only sings about her breakups” - making it clear that they’ve never been to a show and therefore just don’t get it.Īfter that 2010 show, I could not wait to introduce Swift to my then 6-year-old daughter, Alexis, who was much closer in age to a typical Swift fan than I was. Since we scored our tickets in November - a stressful weekday-morning undertaking that involved seven people on seven laptops in two cities frantically navigating the Ticketmaster debacle - I’ve been excitedly chattering with others who I know are going about how amazing it’s all going to be. ![]() I’ll be at the Friday-night concert at Arrowhead, and it will be my fourth Swift concert, my 18-year-old daughter’s third. Plus, I considered her a teeny-bop performer, and I’d covered enough Hilary Duff and NSYNC concerts at that point in my career that my ears were already anticipating the indescribable pitch created when 13,000 young women scream at the top of their lungs simultaneously. At the time, Swift was really more of a country act, which has never been my favorite genre. It was my job to attend the show and review it for the next day’s paper, and I was less than thrilled. The sold-out crowd of mostly young girls and their moms was beyond giddy to see Swift, who’d recently become the youngest solo artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year. Of course, it went without saying that the paper would cover a concert by a popular 20-year-old artist named Taylor Swift, whose first-ever headlining tour in support her second album, “Fearless,” was arriving at the arena that night. Swag: Alexis, left, Sasha and Caroline pose in their new Taylor Swift T-shirts the morning after their first Taylor Swift concert, which they saw in Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium in September 2011.īack on April 1, 2010, Intrust Bank Arena was just a few months old, and as part of my job with The Wichita Eagle, I was still reviewing every concert. ![]()
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