Despite having an outspoken distaste towards parades (and especially televised ones), our favourite online mum Chrissy Tiegen has put her personal attitudes about televised parades to the side to watch John Legend perform in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
It may have potentially been a peer pressure thing, but she bunged the tv on and livetweeted her absolute discomfort about watching giant inflatable characters and elaborate floats careen down the western side of Central Park and through 6th Avenue in Manhattan.
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After being mercilessly dragged by Macy’s receipts of a tweet she made four years ago, Chrissy actually watched this year’s event – from home in Los Angeles where she was making Thanksgiving dinner, still not going to turn up to the actual event soz.
#tbt pic.twitter.com/2aQ52hr0ox
— Macy’s (@Macys) November 22, 2018
damn Macys a savage (still didn’t watch) I’m sure ya did great kiddo
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
She tuned in after this absolute rinsing from an actual department store and her husband (ugh, the shade of it all), and you’ll be tickled to know that the first thing that popped up was a giant turkey in a colonial-era hat. Good gear, not terrifying at all.
fine fine fine @macys pic.twitter.com/B4RvkG75Pv
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
The overarching idea of giant inflatable things being paraded down the middle of the city is understandably uncomfortable. Not to mention it’s probably cold as balls out there at the moment, and the whole ordeal is just a large amount of unnecessary stress and organised chaos on a god damned public holiday where you’re actually meant to just eat a bunch of food and pass out on the couch, or reflecting on Native American history and its relationship with the heavily-commercialised event.
DANCING MARCHING FLAGS TWIRLING GIANT ANIMALS STREAMERS GLITTER SINGING I mean this is utter chaos
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
A true confliction of wanting to support her husband but also stick to her guns, Chrissy leaned in on her opinions of parades and how god damn weird they are the more you think about it.
parades are weird I stand by my statement like this is getting progressively weirder pic.twitter.com/QkYwAVmd62
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
everything is so weird pic.twitter.com/fnFkBkyHmn
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
But it got her thinking – why does she dislike parades? What did they do to her? What caused her utter discomfort about floats and lip-synced festive tunes? Where did this severe distrust in jaunty tunes and people dancing along a street come from?
Chrissy dove deep into her psyche to try and figure it all out.
I must have been killed by a float in a past life or something, I am very uncomfortable watching this
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
A tragic marching band accident, maybe?
— Macy’s (@Macys) November 22, 2018
possibilities are endless maybe I was a hardworking balloon
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
But the moment we were all waiting for – Chrissy included – was the performance of her beloved husband John Legend singing atop the Build-A-Bear float which for some reason also includes a dragon (???)
Ahahahahahahahahahha pic.twitter.com/lAiyCS1x4G
— chrissy teigen (@chrissyteigen) November 22, 2018
It looks cold as hell out there on the parade route so tbh I know where I’d rather be. (A hint: it’s in front of the fire with Chrissy loudly dissecting everything that’s inherently cooked about the Thanksgiving Parade.)
