Mariah Carey, who dubbed herself the “Queen of Christmas,” gave a performance at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday, and the Internet is raving about it.
With dancers on either side of her, Mariah sang her well-known song “All I Want for Christmas” while sporting a huge pink dress and an umbrella.
Mariah performed as usual, remaining motionless and omitting any dancing.
“Mariah Carey is making millions right now to just stand there with her umbrella, and honestly I’m not furious,” commented sportswriter Ian Hest. Crazy respect
“I love the lack of energy Mariah Carey gives in her performances. It’s the one thing we can all count on,” Twitter user Nick Russo said.
Mariah Carey is getting millions right now to just stand there with her umbrella and honestly I’m not mad. Mad respect.
— Ian Hest (@IanHest) November 24, 2022
Another user tweeted, “mariah carey getting paid to just stand there during the Thanksgiving parade and not even pretend to be genuinely singing to the backing track lmfao queen behaviour.”
At the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, mariah Carey gave a performance.
from Meredith Clark (@merimaeee) 24 November 2022
Other commenters made light of the fact that the top-charting pop star “thawed out” just in time for Christmas after coming “out of hibernation.”
Many made fun of Mariah for lip-syncing her performance, but her supporters responded with a tweet from John Legend from the previous year.
Mariah Carey has come out of hibernation #macysparade pic.twitter.com/1MXYsT9v5Y
— SΞAN (@Seanlofficial) November 24, 2022
“Fun fact. We all have to lip sync on this parade because the floats don’t have the capacity to handle the sound requirements for a live performance. Hope y’all enjoyed it anyway. Know that if you come to my shows, the vocals are 100% live!” he said at the time after taking heat for same thing.
“There’s no way that not one single artist performs live at this parade, yet people are mad at Mariah for it. Are you all ok???” another Twitter user said in her defense.
