Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

unfettered_logic t1_ixt09qv wrote

I liked the parade as s as kid but watching it now it’s like one giant commercial and the performances are so pedestrian it makes me cringe watching it. A big giant balloon float for wonder bread? Oh wow here comes Jimmy Fallon singing a badly auto tuned song for less than a minute. Then as a finale Santa and Ms. Clause extolling the virtues of capitalism. Welcome to our consumerist nightmare.

20

Agent_Angelo_Pappas t1_ixu7x0e wrote

“Now” it”s like that? It was started by the department store Macy’s to literally go through Manhattan like some sort of Department Store Pied Piper leading people to the front of their store to go shopping. From Day 1 back in the 1920s it was one big giant commercial. Nothing changed.

20

key-wavelength t1_ixube7n wrote

It’s way different now. Every float is two commercials, the hosts read the first commercial for the float sponsor, and they read the second commercial for the performance sponsor. If you watch a telecast from 30 years ago on YouTube it’s was much less commercial. It feels super corporate now.

−4

Agent_Angelo_Pappas t1_ixuctya wrote

I just pulled up a broadcast from the early 1990s and parade starts with a barbershop quartet singing a car commercial. It’s always been a commercial onslaught, I think you just have rose colored glasses

14

fezfrascati t1_ixtsbf2 wrote

It's a parade run by a department store. What did you expect?

19

key-wavelength t1_ixuazfl wrote

You should watch an older telecast from 30 years ago. They are on youtube. It was completely different. Way less commercialized.

−1

jimmy6677 t1_ixt9xcl wrote

It feels dystopian to me. Five minutes of ads for 1 mediocre live performance on a float for a company shilling more products.

12

__RAINBOWS__ t1_ixtd1k7 wrote

I saw the big Jennie-O float (we love turkeys so much we murder millions!) alongside Paula Abdul and I noped out.

0

unfettered_logic t1_ixta0ur wrote

Yes that is a good word for it. It’s like capitalism exemplified.

−1

Pool_Shark t1_ixudhos wrote

Santa has always been the end of the parade what did you expect

4