Country music superstar Taylor Swift will be bringing her blockbuster “Fearless” tour to Oklahoma City’s Ford Center March 31. Swift’s 2010 string of sold-out shows is just the latest high point for the 20-year-old country singer-songwriter, whose “Fearless” record was recognized as the most awarded album in the history of country music at a private dinner Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn.

Even a less-than-stellar performance at the Grammy Awards, where she won the top prize, album of the year, has not doused Swift’s white-hot career or the fervor of her legions of loyal fans. In the latest issue of wimgo’s free entertainment magazine Look@OKC, which hit newsstands today, my colleague George Lang postulates that Swift’s relatability has been key to her meteoric rise. She has used her own experiences with the highs and lows of adolescence in her songcraft, and those wide-open lyrical confessions have forged strong ties between Swift and her fans. As George writes.
That close identification is a key reason why “Fearless” sold more than 4 million copies domestically, becoming the top-selling album of 2009, and why tickets to her March 31 concert at the Ford Center were all spoken for in less than an hour. Swift not only wrote or co-wrote every song on “Fearless,” but the songs speak to the concerns and insecurities of real teenagers, who can tell the difference between the lyric voice of one of their own and the faintly remembered sentiments of a middle-aged songwriting team.
Swift might not ever need to write her autobiography — in essence, she’s been doing it since she wrote her first song, titled “Lucky You,” when she was 10. When she got bullied by mean girls in junior high, she went home and put pen to paper, then lyrics to music.