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Dua Lipa, Pitbull, Jack Harlow among the highlights of the 2022 Jingle Ball

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The annual KIIS-FM 102.7 and iHeartRadio holiday show also featured Lewis Capaldi, Khalid, Bebe Rexha, Dove Cameron and Ava Max at the Kia Forum in Inglewood.
Performances at holiday radio concerts, like the annual KIIS-FM 102.7 Jingle Ball at the Kia Forum on Friday, are like presents under the tree on Christmas morning.
Some are absolute thrills, the No. 1 wishes on your Santa letter. Others? Eh, they’re like new socks, appreciated but not exactly essential.
Jingle Ball 2022 delivered a few gifts that fans will be talking about for a long time, a handful that were pleasant surprises, and some that will be forgotten by Monday morning.
The lineup for the iHeartRadio concert series varies from city to city. In Inglewood, we got big names like dance-pop diva Dua Lipa, Miami rapper Pitbull, and singer-songwriters Khalid and Bebe Rexha, rising stars such as rapper Jack Harlow, Lewis Capaldi, and Dove Cameron, and emerging artists including Ava Max, Nicky Youre, JVKE, and Jax.
The weather outside was frightful, at least by Southern California standards, rainy and cold. But inside, um, Jingle Ball was delightful if more subdued than the 2021 edition which featured bigger stars such as Ed Sheeran and BTS.
Here’s what caught our eyes and ears most on Friday night.
Dua Lipa (finally) arrives
Dua Lipa was booked to play Jingle Ball 2021 before illness took her off the bill. A year later, the dance-pop queen is an even bigger star, and her show-closing set was one of the best of the night.
Lipa’s 30-minute run opened with “Let’s Get Physical,” the singer and her 10 backing dancers gyrating behind a stage-wide railing before Lipa strolled to the front of the stage. The look was refreshingly clean and uncluttered, Lipa in a short red dress, the backing dancers all in black.
Songs such as “New Rules,” “One Kiss” and Hallucinate” followed with the low rumbling bass and an burbling electronic beats serving dance club vibes.

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