Rita Ora Flubs Lip Sync In Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Fans Rip Singer On Twitter

Rita Ora failed a lip sync attempt at the 2018 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday, and fans were quick to mock her on Twitter.

The Kosovar-born British pop singer — who will be 28 on Monday — was performing her song “Let You Love Me” and seemed to have a lip-sync misstep. Judging from some clips of Ora’s performance, however, it appeared that the track in her earpiece may have been out of sync.

After people started ripping Ora on Twitter, fellow musician John Legend rushed to defend her, explaining in his own tweet that the floats used for singers during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade “don’t have the capacity to handle the sound requirements for a live performance.” Ora thanked Legend for supporting her and reiterated his comment.

This, combined with the vast array of sounds from the crowd in New York and the strong winds like those that were blowing in the Big Apple on Thursday, all surely made it especially difficult to perform. The parade was broadcast on NBC Thursday morning.

Here are some of the top tweets of fans cringing at Ora’s lip-sync flub:

Y’all Rita Ora just lip synced and wasn’t even singing on time at all😂😂 (two videos) #MacysDayParade pic.twitter.com/if3aD1cAOZ

— Michelle Ericsson (@Mishyyfishyy) November 22, 2018

Yikes Rita Ora caught lip synching at #MacysParade pic.twitter.com/nkd4w9VKRM

— Ryan Schocket (@RyanSchocket) November 22, 2018

Rita Ora missing her cue for the lip sync and forcing the camera crew to only use wide shots is the highlight of the parade for me.

— The Screech Queen 🏳️‍🌈 (@katiepersak) November 22, 2018

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Happy Thanksgiving to the fine folks in the NBC control room who keep panning away from Rita Ora’s face because her lip-synch is off by a solid four bars.

— Madison Malone Kircher (@4evrmalone) November 22, 2018

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 https://t.co/pO5hnnQgvg

— Rita Ora (@RitaOra) November 22, 2018

Exactly!! You got that right! You know this girl doesn’t lip sync it’s not my world! Now let me go find some turkey!! https://t.co/GmC5TCMBSx

— Rita Ora (@RitaOra) November 22, 2018

In their own tweet, Macy’s apologized for the technical difficulties that led to the lip synching. The store noted that “these issues were out of the artist’s control.”