Nearly 15 months after Taylor Swift began preparations for the "Fearless Tour" with an abbreviated performance at RodeoHouston, the 20 year-old current queen of country-pop returned to Houston on Tuesday with a rodeo-sized show that was all her own.

For the first of two performances (the final show is tonight) Swift, her seven-person band, five-person dancing troupe and an army of production staff turned the Toyota Center into the ultimate school girl slumber party.

There was boy talk, princesses in castles, white horses, more chat about icky boys who cheat, cloud walks, waterfalls, classroom crushes and screaming... lots of high-pitched, screaming.

There was also an unnerving amount of bile from Swift for an army of boys who have already broken her heart. (It makes one wonder who all these idiots are who are so eager to cheat or break-up with a cute, talented songstress with enough cash to buy small countries?)

By the time the show was over two hours later, an army of adolescent girls (and younger) left glowing as bright as the multi-colored LED sticks they waved throughout the 16-song set featuring all the hits from Swift's chart-topping, record-breaking album Fearless (see setlist below for details).

Parents left looking exhausted and as if they had just help an insufferable neighbor move furniture, but ultimately a bit prideful that they had made a memory their kids won't soon forget.

And beaming with silent sincerity, constant eye contact and smiles so flawless it makes Barbie look in need of Ugly Betty's headgear, was Swift. The new superstar has turned her RodeoHouston flirtation with this city in 2009 into a hot-n-heavy steady relationship with this visit.

"I am absolutely in love with Houston Texas," said Swift early in the night. "I have been for awhile."

Opening the set with arguably her biggest hit, "You Belong To Me," set a bold high-bar for the show. A less-assured young performer might have saved a nugget that golden for later in the set or even the encore to ensure that anticipation remained high all night.

What Swift knew, and the audience in the sold-out arena would soon find out, is that she had many other tricks up her sleeve. Releasing one of the crown jewel singles early also immediately took the decibel level to jet engine bordeing on sonic boom.

With a talent for actually playing multiple instruments, possessing an Everygirl charm that makes all feel like she's their BFF and sheer force of personality, Swift is already showing the ability and versatility to eclipse predecessors like Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears. Her zeitgeist feels like the type of hypnotizing power that a young Madonna could spin over a crowd in the mid-80s.

But where Madonna used sex appeal as her prime weapon, Swift slays with a mixture of wholesome sweetness, naivete, broken-hearted diary entries and girlie daydreams.

Oh, and none of the others had the nearly the arsenal of technological stage toys that Swift travels with at their disposal.

For pre-Fearless hit, "Teardrops On My Guitar," the giant two-tiered stage with massive background screen turned into a 3-D library set that was a bit magical to behold. It was kinda like looking at a giant pop-up book of a scene out of the famous Hogwart's School of Wizadry from the Harry Potter franchise. It was an optical illusion so complete that it pulled focus from Swift's performance.

Swift's best prop, of course, was herself.

During a mid-show acoustic set, she appeared at the back of the Toyota Center and played the song "Hey Stephen" up-close-and-personal to the cheap seats from a second level stairwell.

She ventured through the aisles and rows, hugging and kissing as many hysterical tweens as she could while in stride to a small rotating platform in the middle of the audience to strum the dreamy "Fifteen," on a 12-string guitar.

She busted out the 12-string because a former guitar teacher told her she would never hands big enough to play it. Apparently the only thing that fires Swift up more than a challenge to her young womanhood is a boy who doesn't treat her right.

Her sweet songbird ballads turn to poison pen darts in a hurry if she is spurned by a boy.

The dramatic "You're Not Sorry," was chilling with her grand piano opening, elongated pauses and frantic violin crescendos. "Picture To "Burn" was a little more straight-ahead banjo country, but the image of young, male silhouettes being tossed into flames on the video behind Swift should be making a couple of her ex's a little uncomfortable.

Swift ended the night with "Should've Said No," the final installment of her break-up trilogy that featured a water feature that was the second memorable special effect of the night.

As Swift sang the chorus, a waterfall poured from the ceiling to the stage, dousing her before it hit the ground. Before the downpur reached her, however, the words she was singing were spelled out within the stream.

I almost wondered if I imagined it and am still scratching my head at how they turned normally disobedient liquid into a karaoke machine.

What is not imagined is the lasting power of Swift.

It won't be easy to top this show, but Houston will be a very accepting place to give it a try in the future.

Setlist:

1. "You Belong To Me"

2., "Our Song"

3. "Tell Me Why"

4. "Teardrops On My Guitar"

5. "Fearless"

6. "Forever & Always"

7. "Hey Stephen"

8. "Fifteen"

9. "Tim McGraw"

10. "White Horse"

11. "Love Story"

12. "The Way I Loved You"

13. "You're Not Sorry"

14. "Picture To Burn"

15. "Today Was A Fairytale"

16. "Should've Said No"