Taylor Swift at the Linc

Every night on her Speak Now tour, Taylor Swift scrawls some favorite song lyric down the length of her left arm. (Don't worry, Moms, it's not a tattoo.) On Saturday night, it was a nod to Elton John: "'cause I live and breathe this philadelphia freedom."

"Philadelphia, you know I actually grew up right down the road  in Reading, Pa.," 21 year old Taylor Swift told the deliriously happy 51,000 fans assembled at Lincoln Financial Field in South Philadelphia. "And when I was a little kid, my Dad always had the Eagles game on television, of course. And I remember thinking 'I wonder what it's like to be in that stadium and be the only thing that people are paying attention to?' And it's breathtaking, actually."

That was after the Wyomissing-reared Swift opened her Speak Now tour date "in the place I'm from" in one of only six football stadium shows on an otherwise-in-arenas tour in a glittering gold dress and knee high back leather boots, kicking into "Sparks Fly," "Mine" and "Our Story," at the start of a crowd pleasing, two-hour-plus, eight outfit show, that included 12 of 14 songs off the album from which the tour takes its name.

Nine outfits, actually, if you count the #13 Eagles jersey that she donned while couch bound for an acoustic encore of "Fifteen," then took off to reveal a ball gown she wore while floating above the 30 yard line on a suspended-by-wires faux balcony while bring the show to a fairy tale ending with the undeniably catchy "Love Story." That song sent the overwhelmingly female and mostly-younger-than-Swift crowd home at the same time that the mixed martial arts UFC 133 testosterone party at the Wells Fargo Center across the street got out, resulting in the massive traffic snarl that left me immobile long enough to write this blog item on my iPhone.

The set list is below. A full review is up on philly.com here up on Sunday, and will be in the Inquirer on Monday. The Pink song Swift sang while sitting under a rotating music box fairy tree in a purple dress happily playing the ukulele (that's what she's doing above, with her lucky number '13' written on her right hand) at the back end of the Linc was "Who Knew," and she did a bit of TLC's "Unpretty" after that.

Here's the set list:

Sparks Fly / Mine / Story Of Us / Our Song / Mean / Back To December / Better Than Revenge / Speak Now / Fearless w/ I'm Yours  / Last Kiss / Who Knew / Unpretty / You Belong With Me / Enchanted / Haunted / Long Live

Encore: Fifteen / Love Story

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