Review: Jingle Ball is still a corporate pop holiday party. But it’s still magic, too.
Can anything about the Jingle Ball — that annual roving holiday pop revue sponsored by a radio conglomerate and a horde of corporate advertisers — feel magical in 2019?
An especially generous energy seemed to be coursing through Monday night’s Jingle Ball at Washington’s Capital One Arena, with thoughtful performances from Halsey, Niall Horan, Khalid, Charlie Puth, Lewis Capaldi and the ascendant boy band Why Don’t We.Somehow, this was a party without hiccups, potholes, irregularities or irritations — which has never been the case at Jingle Ball.
Dignity and fun weren’t mutually exclusive, though. Onstage, Charlie Puth has grown so comfortable in the froth of his neo-’80s diet-funk, he had no problem ripping into an extravagant keytar solo on a Roland SH-101, one of the nastiest little synths ever built. The only sound more fanciful than that came from the cello of Daniel Seavey of Why Don’t We. He gilded the group’s confectionary ditty “
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