Parade rehash.

[kjpepper]

Macy's parade watched: check. My thoughts, Colbert style.

Wag of the finger to Mattel... (no not for the reason you think, kittikattie, lol, though I agree with you, Mia? yawn.) Can I just comment on the wrongness that is Barbie Island Princess? From design to execution? FAIL. Just... just fail.

Halfhearted wag of the finger for Broadway Mary Poppins... I don't really like the new lyrics to Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Tip of the hat to the Rockettes. Not only for of course having the best legs in NY, but they are definitely moving sharply away from the all blonde all homogenous type for the girls. It's now mostly brunettes, and they've kept their lol one Asian chickie. And not one but a whopping three black girls. I agree with sundart though, you really needed red heels with your outfits today.

Wag of the finger for the sound mixing/editing this year. Not only did you seem to have a massive microphone FAIL, resulting in a sirenlike wail present throughout the broadcast, but it was impossible to hear anything but the brass sections of all the marching bands.

Tip of the hat for putting Sarah "Crazy Soprano" Brightman on the pirate float with that hat. Wins everything. We'll ignore the fact that she probably demanded the pirate ship and the placement.

Tip of the hat for the Foster's, Gibson and Hairspray soda shoppe floats.

Wag of the finger because the writing for the hosts is as atrocious as ever.

And really not either/or, but two major downers in the parade... Virginia Tech's band's appearance, in missing man formation *sob* and good god, "I'll be home for Christmas" wins at being THE most depressing Christmas song ever. Even if you sing "Have yourself a merry little christmas" with the original lyrics. Yeesh.

Comments

[nireena.livejournal.com]

thank you; i didn't get a chance to watch it this year, but your colbert recap filled me in nicely.

b'sides, who wants to hear the flutes in marching bands, anyway? bring on the brass! (says the former french horn player... ;) )

sarah brightman is still kicking around? i thought she had dropped off the face of the earth or something after the original cast of "phantom of the opera" finally finished their broadway run.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

lol @ all.

after phantom of the opera, she stayed on the broadway and opera circuit for a few more years, then lost her mind, started recording goth techno pop, divorced andrew lloyd webber and started living the life of completely batshit song diva. She hath become Carlotta, only goth.

...it's an improvement, actually, lol