OK, so everyone was up in arms about Rita Ora’s performance on her float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, because it’s pretty damn clear that our gal Rita is lip-syncing.
Rita Ora performing “Let You Love Me” at the annual #MacysParade in New York City. https://t.co/mETLbQB2pL
— Pop Crave (@PopCraveMusic) November 22, 2018
Since Rita was copping a fair bit of mockery online, John Legend came to her defence to happily admit that everyone lip-syncs in the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Apparently the floats can’t capacitate the sound requirements for the live performances so they’re all just pulling a Ferris Bueller up there.
Fun fact @johnlegend thank you for clarifying what I was about to also tweet. It’s annoying for us but anyway! All my shows are 100 percent live always have been! When you come to a ORA show get ready! Back to holidays! Have a good one guys! ? X https://t.co/pO5hnnQgvg
— Rita Ora ?✨ (@RitaOra) November 22, 2018
Honestly it’s totally understandable if everyone is lip-syncing on the floats. No big deal. Not loosing sleep over it.
It’s bad lip-syncing that we’ve got the real problem with. Rita Ora doesn’t even seem to be on the same verse of her track ‘Let You Love Me’?
And even if artists get their timing right, their seems to be a misconception that lip-syncing is just blandly pretending to sing? Excuse me, but yawn.
If you’re openly not singing, then the whole performance should be taking things to the next level. That is the ethos of lip-sync battles that Drag Race lives and dies by, so if we’re looking for captivating performers to put on floats, please look no further than the drag queen community.
Seriously, ditch these artists if they’re just going to get up there and fake sing with no pizazz. We need the Shangela’s, Trixie’s and Aquaria’s of this world up on those floats.
Get in the lip-syncing experts get ready to go down in history as the best Thanksgiving Day hype event of all time.
Just a thought for next year. Let’s let drag queens take the reins and turn up the next Thanksgiving Day Parade from a 6 to a solid 10.