True, there were other singers who went home with hardware from the Country Music TV Awards, but the show seemed to mostly be a factory dream that came true for Taylor Swift, country music’s teen queen. Swift, a superstar at only nineteen years old, made her debut with T-Pain as T-Swizzle in a rap clip for “Thug Story,” then sang one of her singles “You Belong With Me,” and closed the show, joining Def Leppard, a favorite band of hers, on the classic anthem “Pour Sugar on Me.”

The night started with Swift in a skit living out her dreams (keep on wishing about that Tennessee Titans and Star Trek thing). In between her performances she dominated two different categories for two years in a row: Best Female Video and Best Video of the Year for her “Love Story” clip.

Swift thanked CMT for allowing her to live out so many of her dreams this year. She thanked both Garth Brooks and Shania Twain. Twain for producing such theatrical videos and Brooks for keeping his priority on the fans. She said she took her cues from them. She also thanked her little brother Austin for being her date for the night.

Although it was evident that it was Swift’s night, Brad Paisely was the won who won the most awards, winning Best Male Vocalist for “Waiting on a Woman,” Best Collaboration with Keith Urban on “Start a Band” as well as Performance of the Year on “Country Boy” with George Strait, Alan Jackson and Dierks Bentley. Urban, in accepting the award for “Start a Band” urged kids to learn the guitar. It’s the real thing, he said. Paisley quipped that “Rock Band” never did get anyone a date, ever.

Group Video of the Year went to Rascal Flatts for “Every Day,” Duo Video of the Year to Sugarland for “All I Want To Do,” and Wide Open Country Video to Kid Rock for his song “All Summer Long.” Rock joked when accepting his award that he must have won based on creativity for mashing up Sweet Home Alabama” by Lynyrd Skynyrd with “Werewolves of London,” by Warren Zevon.

Other appearances in addition to Def Leppard and T-Pain, included several other non-country stars which included the rocker Ted Nugent who appeared as a presenter and the B-52s joining Sugarland for the classic pop tune, “Love Shack.”

It’s pretty clear that John Mayer has a high opinion of himself. However it turns out that he thinks highly of Taylor Swift, the teen icon as well. In March, Mayer while on Twitter, revealed that he had just finished the song “Half of My Heart,” and he was hoping it would be a duet he would sing with Swift. He likened it to Swift making a killer Stevie Nicks to his Tom Petty type of song. This was very high praise coming from Mayer.

In Elle’s upcoming issue, Swift gushes about his tweet, talking about how freaked out she was when she heard because of the fact that she had been a huge fan of John’s for a very long time. She said she was very excited about the very idea that John would even mention her in a Twitter.

It seems that the way into Swift’s heart is through electronic flattery. The same could be said for Demi Lovato who shared somewhat of a twitter-mance earlier in the year with Mayer. If you’re wondering what a Mayer-Swift collaboration might sound like, you may not have to just leave it to your imagination. Mayer actually made an appearance at a concert of Swift’s last month in Los Angeles. They performed together on “Your Body Is A Wonderland” and “White Horse.”

Whether all of this will lead to a track together is anyone’s guess, but the pair do seem to have plenty of chemistry to pull it off, even if the Nicks-Petty comparison is quite the hyperbole. Given that Mayer seems to have quite a liking for teen pop singers, at least musically, is a Miley Cyrus collaboration inevitable as well?

After seeing the huge response that Taylor Swift received as the opening act at U.S. Bank Arena, you may be wondering whether it should have been her instead of Keith Urban as the headliner for the show. Swift, a nineteen year old country singer who has engineered the fast rise of her career through her autobiographical teen romance songs, had the fans screaming throughout her entire high energy, hour-long performance.

Urban followed Swift with his own two hour set. There was certainly a contrast in their styles. Whereas Swift appeared hungry for the adoration of the fans and made a big show of giving love back to her adoring audience, Urban played it very cool throughout his set. The sellout crowd ate him up just as enthusiastically as they did Swift. It seems the screamers wanted to be Taylor Swift and be with Keith Urban.

The forty one year old guitar player and singer from Australia, who is also known as the husband of Nicole Kidman in popular culture, put on the quintessential pop performance in an almost effortless fashion. Standing on stage to allow the ladies in the audience to admire him was half the battle, and his lead guitar playing, although very rarely thrilling, was always technically sound and seemed to come quite as naturally and easy to him as standing there looking pretty.

It was definitely a pop performance even though Urban does perform on the country circuit. The set of 19 songs was filled mostly with acoustic guitar rhythmic ballads that were more reminiscent of Bryan Adams than honky tonk.

Urban ventured into several parts of the arena, with seventy five percent of it being set up for his show. Most of Urban’s performances were on the main stage where he either ran around during up-tempo songs such as “Wanna Love Somebody Like You,” with back up from the five piece band, or him playing acoustic guitar while sitting atop a stool on ballad-like tunes like “You’ll Think of Me.”

At the other end of the arena’s floor there was a smaller stage set up. Urban went out to that stage for some of his ballad action such as “Once in a Lifetime.” Later on during the show, Urban sauntered over to the bowl section of the arena where a microphone was set up and sang “You Look Good in My Shirt,” being fondled by all the female fans as he passed through.

Making his way back to the main stage, the singer was surrounded by lighting and video, with the video screen that was behind the backup band, changing its location after each song. During the song “‘Til Summer Comes Around,” the screen changed from a vertical position to horizontal, radiating greens, red and blues in a ceiling directly over the band to enhance the song’s mood with impressive effects.

Swift’s set was very similar to other opening-act appearances she did in Riverbend seasons. Her set was somewhat longer for this show, adding a theatrical set where she hammered with mallets on 55 gallon rusty drums. Swift’s strength is definitely not in imitating the Blue Man Group. Swift’s finest moments came when she set up songs with a story, which usually involved a boy who had wronged her, and then really letting the song rip. It will be very interesting to see Swift finally get the opportunity to be the headliner for her very own show someday in Cincinnati. If her recent awards, record sales and hit songs are any indication, that opportunity should be coming very soon.