So, Friday night was the 2008 installment of Z100’s end-of-year-fest known as the Jingle Ball, and while this year’s lineup didn’t have any guaranteed swoon objects like last year’s Jonas Brothers fest, the lineup was nowhere near the crapfest that was Zootopia. Kanye West and Ne-Yo and Rihanna (and even Leona Lewis and David Archuleta, to a lesser extent) made me realize that while the ever-shrinking beast that is “pop music” certainly has its problems in 2008, its high points can still bring smiles to faces and twitchiness to butts.
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ON THE SCENE
Z100’s Jingle Ball 2008: In Which Ne-Yo Makes Us Believe In Pop Again
ON THE SCENE
Jingle Ball 2007: BJs For The JBs
Our headline was actually one out of the several hundred text messages that scrolled across a video ticker high above the stage at Madison Square Garden on Friday night, when a sold-out crowd of tweens and teens (and Idolator) took in the pop chart mish-mash of New York radio station Z100’s annual Jingle Ball, and the junior high horndogs who sent in that text weren’t talking about James Brown’s sidemen, but the Jonas Brothers, the pre-fab pop-punk puppy dogs fresh off a leg of the Hannah Montana tour. All night, the mere mention of the Brothers’ names prompted screams so loud you’d think the arena had spontaneously popped a collective cherry, and for four hours, hundreds of exclamation point-riddled messages pledged love to one Brother or another, though usually more along the lines of a chaste hug than fellatio. And taken against the rest of the evening’s performances, America’s squealing affection towards Disney’s latest attempt to bail out the industry (for at least another 12 months) wasn’t necessarily misplaced.
ON THE SCENE
Hurricane Jonas Brothers: Continuing Team Coverage
At this point, you may be only slightly familiar with guitar-pop boy band the Jonas Brothers. This is because you are probably not a 13-year-old girl from Long Island or New Jersey. I was only vaguely aware of them before I set foot in Z100’s pre-Jingle Ball event at the Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday, but I can assure you that when I left three hours later I was intimately–disturbingly–acquainted with all things Jonas Brothers. MORE »
videodrone
Which Z100 Star Will Put On The Most Painful Performance At Tonight’s Jingle Ball?
Tonight, Maura and I will be at Madison Square Garden for New York pop station Z100’s annual Jingle Ball, taking in the cream of Billboard’s crop: Fall Out Boy! Alicia Keys! Avril Lavigne! The Jonas Brothers! Jordin Sparks! Colbie Caillat! Backstreet Boys! Boys Like Girls! Timbaland! With OneRepublic! And Keri Hilson! Is pop music really dead? Probably, but we’ll find out for sure tonight. As a friend put it, it’s going to be awfsome! But which iTunes bestseller is going to put on the most awfsome performance tonight? For the answer to that, we turn to the crystal ball of our handy poll software. MORE »
videodrone
Paul Lynde Helps Us Prepare For All Those Jonas Brothers Fans Tonight
maura@idolator: ha ha this is you at the jingle ball tonight. jess@idolator: eat it. Paul Lynde - “Kids”… MORE »
We sent Kate and Alex to the Jingle Ball’s free, daylong meet-and-greet/mini-show session in New York (video to come Monday), and Kate just sent along this panicked text: “OMG, they’re giving away Jonas Brothers meet-and-greet passes. These girls are gonna tear the place down. I feel panicked.” MORE »
We sent Kate and Alex to the Jingle Ball’s free, daylong meet-and-greet/mini-show session in New York (video to come Monday), and Kate just sent along this panicked text: “OMG, they’re giving away Jonas Brothers meet-and-greet passes. These girls are gonna tear the place down. I feel panicked.” MORE »
We sent Kate and Alex to the Jingle Ball’s free, daylong meet-and-greet/mini-show session in New York (video to come Monday), and Kate just sent along this panicked text: “OMG, they’re giving away Jonas Brothers meet-and-greet passes. These girls are gonna tear the place down. I feel panicked.” MORE »
