Internet unleashes after Mariah Carey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade performance

The unofficial Queen of Christmas was wheeled out for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — and viewers didn’t hold back.

Ben Kesslen — New York Post

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November 25, 2022 - 2:37PM

Mariah Carey performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Picture: NBC

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The self-anointed “Queen of Christmas” Mariah Carey performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Friday — and the Internet is having a field day with her show.

Donning a massive pink dress with an umbrella, Mariah sang her iconic tune “All I Want for Christmas” while flanked by dancers.

As usual, Mariah stood still during her performance and didn’t join in the dancing.

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Ian Hest wrote: “Mariah Carey is getting millions right now to just stand there with her umbrella and honestly I’m not mad. Mad 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 getting paid to just stand there at the thanksgiving parade and not even pretend to be actually singing to the backing track lmfao queen behaviour,” another person tweeted.

Other users joked that the chart-topping pop star came “out of hibernation” and “thawed out” just in time for Christmas.

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Respect to Mariah Carey for not even pretending not to lip sync
— Andy Kalmowitz (@andy_witz) November 24, 2022

Mariah Carey lip syncing in place with this umbrella at 78% energy while her dancers perform like their lives hang in the balance on the Thanksgiving Parade is pure CAMP!!
— Ryan (@Lindyyy777) November 24, 2022

Many poked fun at Mariah for lip syncing her performance, but her fans pointed to a John Legend tweet from 2018 in rebuttal.

“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 defence.