{"id":66,"date":"2020-11-30T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/?p=66"},"modified":"2020-11-30T18:57:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T18:57:56","slug":"amas-and-macys-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/2020\/11\/30\/amas-and-macys-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Awards and Macy&#8217;s Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome back to POP! Of Culture Weekly, where we discuss the highlights of all things entertainment for the week! This week, we cover&nbsp;the <em>2020 American Music Awards<\/em> as well as the <em>Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/em>!&nbsp;Check it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">2020<em> American Music Awards<\/em> Recap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 <em>American Music Awards<\/em> took place on Sunday, Nov. 22 with Taraji P. Henson as the show&#8217;s host for the night. Many artists were recognized for their work and took home many awards. The Weeknd, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, and Dan + Shay all went home with three awards each, winning in categories such as Artist of the Year (Swift), Favorite Male Artist-Pop\/Rock (Bieber), Favorite Duo\/Group-Country (Dan + Shay), and Favorite Male Artist-Soul\/R&amp;B (The Weeknd).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with giving out awards, the AMAs also had many artists perform throughout the show. Jennifer Lopez and Maluma performed their song <em>Pa&#8217; Ti + Lonely<\/em>, Billie Eilish performed her song <em>Therefore I Am<\/em> and Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes performed their song <em>Monster<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AMAs\/status\/1330679943550779392\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"670\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/11\/monster.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/11\/monster.png 670w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/11\/monster-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo from AMA&#8217;s Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><em>Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The annual <em>Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade <\/em>took place on Thursday, Nov. 26. Even during a pandemic, the parade was still able to put on a show, but following COVID-19 conduct, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many balloons and floats were showcased in the parade such as balloon of Snoopy in an astronaut uniform, a SpongeBob balloon, a Pikachu balloon, and much more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pokemon\/status\/1331035945953611776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"664\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/11\/pikachu.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/11\/pikachu.png 664w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/files\/2020\/11\/pikachu-296x300.png 296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>photo from Pokemon&#8217;s Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were also many performances during the parade to keep watchers entertained. The cast of<em> Hamilton<\/em> took the street and performed the broadway hit<em> The Schyler Sisters<\/em>. Tori Kelly, Keke Palmer, Dolly Parton, Pentatonix, and other artists also performed during the parade as well!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"474\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just the right amount of holiday spirit \u2728\u2603 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/torikelly?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@torikelly<\/a> singing &quot;25th&quot; on this lovely new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MacysParade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MacysParade<\/a> float from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lifetimetv?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lifetimetv<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QVSOZ6XtR4\">pic.twitter.com\/QVSOZ6XtR4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Macy&#39;s (@Macys) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Macys\/status\/1332001907901145088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to POP! Of Culture Weekly, where we discuss the highlights of all things entertainment for the week! This week, we cover&nbsp;the 2020 American Music Awards as well as the Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade!&nbsp;Check it out! 2020 American Music Awards Recap The 2020 American Music Awards took place on Sunday, Nov. 22 with Taraji &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/2020\/11\/30\/amas-and-macys-parade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Awards and Macy&#8217;s Parade<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49986,1],"tags":[1425081,1425204,1426471,1426033,1428638,138804,1401582,1425761,1428393,1426244,1428824,1427556,1347845,1426792,1427165,1425498,777512,1427806,367874,1428121],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-uncategorized","tag-amas","tag-american-music-awards","tag-billie-eilish","tag-dan-shay","tag-dolly-parton","tag-hamilton","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-justin-bieber","tag-keke-palmer","tag-maluma","tag-pentatonix","tag-pikachu","tag-shawn-mendes","tag-snoopy","tag-spongebob","tag-taraji-p-henson","tag-taylor-swift","tag-the-schyler-sisters","tag-the-weeknd","tag-tori-kelly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/popofcultureweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}