Good review for Jonas Brothers

Hey, I found this GREAT review for the Jonas Brothers!!! My thoughts will be in parenthesis!!

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — On Saturday night, for approximately two and a half hours in the middle of Zootopia 2008, several thousand young girls were held hostage at the Izod Center here. They had come to scream for the Jonas Brothers, the preppy New Jersey sibling heartthrobs who opened the show, and for Miley Cyrus, the teen queen who closed it. That there were eight acts in between was a sort of cruel punishment.

Rahav Segev for The New York Times
Miley Cyrus closing Saturday night’s Izod Center show.
Slickly choreographed and arranged, Zootopia thrilled in inverse proportion to the age of its performers — beginning loudly with the Jonas Brothers (average age: 18), dulling in the middle with a reunited New Kids on the Block (average age: 38) and finishing, amid a sea of shrieks, with Ms. Cyrus (age: 15).

Conveniently, the youngest performers were also the ablest. The Jonas Brothers, who play instruments and sing as a full-service boy band, veered from loose-limbed rock (“Hold On”) to intense balladry (“When You Look Me in the Eyes”). They were a model of precision.
Ms. Cyrus, whose popularity appeared undiminished by recent scandal, was slightly less focused (haha), though her flashes of fatigue did little to diminish her blunt-force hits — “See You Again,” “G.N.O. (Girl’s Night Out)” — or their reception. She performed songs from her forthcoming album, “Breakout,” that indicated she’s not meddling with success, although “Fly on the Wall” curiously echoed the B-52’s “Rock Lobster.”

On Z100 (WHTZ-FM), the show’s sponsor, singers like Ms. Cyrus, Britney Spears and Madonna share space with rock bands like Paramore and Flyleaf, R&B singers like Usher and Chris Brown and rappers like Lil Wayne and Flo Rida.

But the Zootopia lineup was far less diverse. Five acts featured piano, though unless they were named Nick Jonas (woohoo - go Nick), they fared poorly. Ferras and Sara Bareilles, both with strong voices, were relegated to single songs on a side stage up near the cheap seats. The microphone cut out on the genial and ineffective pop-soul singer Gavin DeGraw halfway through his first song, but the crowd responded with only faint murmurs of complaint. And OneRepublic, among the least dynamic bands to have ever appeared atop the pop charts, was weighed down by Ryan Tedder’s shapeless, ethereal vocals.

Most notably, save for two members of Danity Kane, whose brief set was kinetic and seemingly effortless, no black performers were on the bill, though blue-eyed soul was very much present. Jesse McCartney (*cough washed up pop-star cough*) grew up a teenage idol, but he has lately been aspiring to become a soul man. His recent songs (“Leavin’,” “Relapse”) have a skittery bounce, and he looked hungry performing them, opting for seduction (>:P) over affirmation.

For the men of New Kids on the Block, seduction was not an option, or a reality. Billed as its first concert performance in 14 years, the group’s brief set was virtually identical to the one the members delivered on the “Today” show the day before in front of a more forgiving crowd. Save for Joey McIntyre, they have not aged well vocally, and they plowed through a medley of breezy hits — “Step by Step,” “Please Don’t Go Girl” — to get to their new single. But that single, the toothless “Summertime,” sounded less like a New Kids song than one by LFO, one of the many boy bands to follow them.

In the years since the Kids were a pop force, Donnie Wahlberg, the bad boy of the group (there is no bad boy in the Jonas Brothers (aww yeah) — my, how things have changed), has made a name for himself as a somewhat dour character actor. On Saturday night he had a black baseball cap pulled low over his face, as if he would rather not be recognized. In his old habit, he wiped sweat off his chest and face onto a T-shirt, which he then threw into the crowd. But that didn’t generate nearly the amount of screaming as when he name-checked the Jonas Brothers (haha, us jobro fans gotta stick together and raise the roof for our boys). “We are the New Kids on the Block,” Mr. Wahlberg said, and for once it sounded like and admission of defeat (oh he know's it!!! woot woot).