My annual Macy's Thanksgiving Parade complaint

[tridim]

Marching bands aside, why is it that they always choose the absolute worst pop music artists in the country to lipsync their crappy songs? Americans make great music, but I never see it on Thanksgiving morning. I'd love to see some jazz, blues and/or newgrass groups up there. Instead we get the same thing every year, awful Disney pop music.

I guess I could just turn off the TV, but it's kind of a tradition. Oh well, rant off.

[Are_grits_groceries]

1. But you missed this!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMwO9PX4_7c

[Goat or Panic]

2. Is that this Parade?

Oh please. oh please.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. Yes. nt

[Marnieworld]

4. OMG!

That's amazing! And it ended with some muppet thing saying "I like Rick rolling!" He seemed pleased to be there. Any publicity is good publicity I guess.

[Patsy Stone]

6. That was hilarious.

But I also really got a kick out of the Second Time Arounders Marching Band.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. lol! That was funny!

[AlCzervik]

13. yay Foster's!

i love that show.

[dana_b]

14. even the puppet said..

"Rick Rolled... Yay!!" funny shit

[Stinky The Clown]

5. I hear the acoustics on 34th Street are perfect for live teevee singing.

:eyes:

[Olney Blue]

7. It's just background noise while I cook.

They did have Andy Williams lip-sync a Christmas song.

[XOKCowboy]

9. Disney pop is almost symbolic of America today...

Bland and without substance but well marketed.

[tridim]

10. Proof: Now Hootie, minus the Blowfish, is singing a country song.

Ooooooo-kay.

[Montauk6]

11. Well, it IS a parade after all...

You're gonna get hokey handwaving holiday fare with the poppest of pop stars for the whole family. It's not like they're gonna break out with Sonny Rollins' "Blue 7" over at the Jackson Pollock float with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, THOUGH THAT WOULD BE A GAS!

[NashVegas]

12. Those Marching Bands

Make me want to go to NOLA for MG 2009 ....

[politicalfan08]

15. Rickroll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX4CHmWXEu0