Shakira smiles at the crowd during the Y100 Jingle Ball at BankAtlantic Center. Click the photo for more pictures from the show. (Storms Media Group)

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She says you can have it all, if you leave it up to her. But it wasn’t necessary to solely rely on Shakira as a closing act at Y100’s Jingle Ball to make the event a success.

From beginning to end, the show was able to grasp and maintain the attention of its crowd with the selection of artists, ranging from Iyaz to LMFAO and finally, to Shakira.

There was one minor detail that someone forgot to tell several artists, though; that they were in Fort Lauderdale — not Miami.

It’s simple enough to generalize by calling the crowd “South Florida” like some did, but LMFAO and Jason Derulo, who both attribute their roots to Miami, continually called the crowd anything but Fort Lauderdale.

Petty? No. Especially since the concert didn’t go off without a problem, to no fault of the BankAtlantic Center. Poor organization on behalf of Y100’s team proved to be a disaster when it came to the seating. Hundreds of seats sat empty throughout the entire concert until music fans began to slowly sneak downstairs. The majority of the 400-level seating remained empty. Needless to say, if this was a sold-out concert, many decided to stay home.

Nevertheless, once you made it to your seats and kicked out whomever had set camp, you could sit back and enjoy the show.

Most artists seemed to be within the same general category of music, except Colbie Cailliat. Her soothing, slower music dimmed the crowd a little during the time she was on stage. Though 303H! would pick up the beat afterward, it was LMFAO who woke the parents off their seats when they began singing and addressing the crowd with not-so-kid-friendly language.

Most artists averaged three to four songs.

The ever so-grateful Flo Rida eventually took to the stage, and like he’s done in the past, gave his phone number to everyone in the crowd so that they could call him. He threw his shoes, his shirt and a few more items into the crowd. It was good that he was on stage for a short amount of time. At the rate that he was going, it was only a matter of time before he ended up with no clothes.

As Jordin Sparks, Timbaland and The Fray’s performance went on, the time came for the closing act — Shakira. She mainly performed songs from her new album, She Wolf, but threw in Hips Don’t Lie.

But there was something wrong during her first song, however, as the band drowned out her voice. And Sarina Caskill, 10, suspects that it was due to lip-synching.

Having attended the last three Jingle Ball concerts, Caskill believes more than a few artists did the same, but that Shakira was the most obvious. Regardless, she says she’ll be back next year.

Tomas Galluzzi, 16, who was at the concert to mainly see The Fray, 30H3! and LMFAO, thought the two last acts, The Fray and Shakira, were good choices to close the night.

Galluzzi was concerned that the concert would not meet his expectations. Classmates told him the concert line-up wasn’t good enough, but he was happy with the performances nonetheless.

“I guess they were just jealous I was coming,” Galluzzi said about those who doubted the concert. “Last year I though it was my favorite year, but this year came pretty close.”