State Sen. Gives Cringe-Worthy Renditions Of Popular Songs In Fight Against Ticket Brokers

ALBANY, NY — Anyone who's tried to score tickets to a major event knows the struggle. You see that tickets are sold out, only to have popped up on re-sale sites for four or five times as much as the venue was originally selling them for.

State Sen. Daniel Squadron took the floor in Albany on Thursday to fight against that struggle. The state legislature was considering a bill that would extend the status-quo of ticketing procedures in New York state.

Squadron — whose district is an impressive contortion that includes parts of lower Manhattan, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Williamsburg (full map here) — has pushed for tougher legislation that would require disclosure of face value prices, actual number of tickets available and more.

So Squadron is a solid no.

On the Senate floor Thursday, he chose to express so through (sometimes cringe-worthy) parodies of song lyrics from recent hits. (Something he's done before.)

A sampling of this year's diss tracks included:

(Beyonce, "Single Ladies")

All the ticket brokers

(All the ticket brokers)

Now put your hands up

If you liked it cause you're profiteering on it

If you liked it cause you're profiteering on it

And you liked it cause you got cha-ching on it

If you liked it cause you're profiteering on it

(Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance")

They want your tickets

All the brokers resale

Lobby-ists could write a bad romance

Ah-ah-Albany

Caught in a bad romance

(Adele, "Rolling In The Deep")

Resellers have it all

Rolling in the cheap

They have Albany in thrall

Rolling in the deep

There was a lot more, too. You can watch his entire riff below. (Oh, and the extender was passed 36-24.)

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