John Legend & Rita Ora Explain Why Singers Lip Sync at Thanksgiving Day Parade

John Legend and Rita Ora are all smiles while riding on floats during the 2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday (November 22) in New York City.

The singers both faced criticism online for lip syncing during their performances at the parade, but they took to Twitter to explain why they didn’t sing live.

“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!” John tweeted.

Rita quotes John‘s tweet and added, “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.”

Macy’s also released a statement saying that there were technical difficulties during that “negatively impacted” several recording artists’ performances.