Taylor Swift is crashing your Thanksgiving. CBS has tapped her to be a performing artist for its Thanksgiving parade. In its 54th year, the CBS Thanksgiving Day Parade will run side by side with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. As reported by CBS, the broadcast will air footage from the NBC broadcast with additional performances from the casts of Broadway musicals Matilda and Pippin.
Thanksgiving parades have been an American tradition for decades. Running down the heart of New York City, they have greeted New Yorkers for decades now with their colorful and vibrant floats and balloons that run from Central Park West down to midtown, ending in front of the Macy's store at Herald Square.
Now the parade has gotten the hottest artist in the world to perform live on the broadcast.
According to NBC, another broadcast partner, additional performers and live guests on the NBC broadcast will include Kiss, Hilary Duff, Nick Jonas, Meghan Trainor, The Madden Brothers and many more. It should be a stacked lineup of artists and celebrities in addition to the musical performance from Swift on CBS.
The broadcast will take place from 9 a.m. and 12 p.m.
Swift has plenty to be thankful for. Selling close to 2 million copies of her latest artist album 1989 would be a good place to start. Her album continues to sell by the hundreds of thousands, after a record-setting opening week that saw it move 1.287 million copies. She has been projected to sell another 400,000 copies in the second week, and as we approach the holiday buying season, that number should not fall too far for several more weeks.
She released the video for "Blank Space" yesterday, Nov. 10, showing the crazy, sadistic side of her personality. For the parade, however, expect the cheery pop princess to appear on stage and not the knife-wielding psychopath to appear on your TV sets and on the streets of New York.
