Z100 Jingle Ball:The Script,David Guetta,Karmin, LMFAO, Travie McCoy, Lady Gaga!

Fuse, the national music television network of The Madison Square Garden Company, will broadcast Z100's Jingle Ball concert on Sunday, December 18th at 7pm ET. 

 

Before the concert, Z100 and Coca Cola hosted an All Access Lounge at Hammerstein Ballroom, which was open to the public. Z100 gave away hundreds of meet and greet passes to fans, who had the opportunity to meet and take photos with Khloe Kardashian, Mindless Behavior, Gym Class Heroes, Demi Lovato, The Script, Karmin and Hot Chelle Rae. Mindless Behavior, The Scipt and youtube sensations Meg and Liz performed at the all access lounge. 

 

Examiner.com was on the red carpet in the press room during the concert and we had the opportunity to speak with Redfoo of LMFAO, The guys of The Script, Abigail Breslin, Hot Chelle Rae, Gym Class Heroes, Karmin, Mindless Behavior, the guys of Big Time Rush and youtube stars Meg and Liz to name a few. 

 

When Z100 Personality Shelley Wade found out that Lady Gaga was headlining the show she said, "I was super-excited because Gaga grew up listening to Z100 and a few years ago, she was in the audience as a fan and now she's headlining the show that's really amazing! That's the stuff dreams are made of."

 

DJ David Guetta reflected on on his Grammy nomination: "It's a great honor...It's very rewarding to fill venues and set records, but it's also important to have the respect of your peers, and the whole industry is voting, so it's important." On working with Nicki Manaj on 'Turn me On' David Guetta told reporters: "I wanted to bring her somewhere different and I felt like she could really sing, but people didn't know it, so that was the challenge--to make her sound like no one heard her before and that's what we did."

 

DJ Redfoo of LMFAO walked the carpet solo and performed solo on Friday night because his partner in crime SkyBlue hurt his back. He has herniated disks and he had been performing injured for several months, so the doctors advised him to take a break if he wanted to heal and continue performing in 2012. DJ Redfoo half-joked that he thought the shuffle, the wiggle and the ladies put Sky Blue's back out. RedFoo had a fun anecdote about meeting Lady Gaga in LA before she was famous. "I let her perform in front of us at Mood in LA. They said she had never performed in LA before, 'can you just give her a spot, we're trying to break her, she's a new interscope act.' I saw her, I saw her little space tight pants, saw that booty and I said, 'Yeah Baby.'

 

RedFoo's best Christmas present was the Atari Gaming System with Space Invaders game and a yellow bike. He used to be into BMX's when he was younger. 

 

Travie McCoy told Examiner.com that he hopes to see his family in upstate New York for the holidays. Gym Class Heroes' new album The Papercut Chronicles II is in stores now and their track Stereo Hearts with Adam Levine is everywhere. Travie told Examiner.com the new record "is a continuation from our first record, so we kind of went back and listened to that album to get inspired as far as the innocence, the urgency, and the naivete that that record had. We kind of wanted to revisit that, not necessarily duplicate it."

 

Danny O'Donoghue, Mark Sheehan and Glen Power of The Script were thrilled to be performing at Jingle Ball. This week, it was announced that Danny will be a judge on the UK Version of The Voice. Danny says his new year's resolution is to sing in tune and play in time, Mark Sheehan said that his new year's resolution is to learn to drive and Glen says that he hopes to eat healthier in the new year. 

 

One artist that we will be keeping a close eye on in 2012 is Neon Hitch. Her debut album 'Beg, Borrow and Steal' will be out next year. She is featured on "A$$ Back Home" and performed the song with Gym Class Heroes at Jingle Ball. Neon Hitch, wrote Ke$ha's "Blah, Blah, Blah" and was discovered by super-producer Benny Blanco on Myspace. On how she came to be signed? She says she was in a songwriting session with Kara DioGuardi and the next day Kara called her and offered her a record deal with Warner Brothers. 

 

Amy Heidemann and Nick Noonan of Karmin are the cutest couple. They came to be signed to Epic Records after becoming youtube sensations. "It's crazy, 6 months ago we were just in our living room, making musical videos, making covers, and hoping that people would watch and then as soon as I started rapping I feel like that's when it kind of went crazy. It's all fan made," Amy and Nick told us.  Their new single is 'Crash Your Party' and the one party they would like to crash is Ellen Degeneres' Christmas Party!

 

Abigail Breslin said that she was most excited to Hot Chelle Rae, Demi Lovato and Foster the People. Her new year's resolution is to stop saying "umm" so much. For the holidays Abigail plans to stay home with her family. 

 

Prodigy of Mindless Behavior said that he would most like to collaborate with Chris Brown because "he's great on the stage, he's a great entertainer."

 

Meg and Liz, who are also youtube sensations were thrilled to be at Jingle Ball. They flew in from Nashville, Tennessee for the evening. Their new song "Are you Happy Now" is an anti-bullying song. 

The highlight of the evening was when Lady Gaga performed. During her set, she spoke about loving her hometown, New York City and Jingle Ball being her first live show. She began her set nestled in a Christmas Tree. She performed Born this Way, Bad Romance, Edge of Glory, Just Dance, Poker Face, Telephone, Judas, White Christmas, You and I and closed the show with Marry The Night.