Leadership / 04.16.24
The Top Songs About Tickets
Teddy Durgin
Doctors have plenty of songs in which medicine and healthcare are mentioned. Lawyers have a plethora of tunes in which the legal profession is worked into the lyrics. INTIX professionals, as it turns out, have a number of hits from over the years in which tickets factor prominently into the songs. Ticketing tunes, in fact, cross multiple music genres from pop to country to hard rock.
Ticketing pros and INTIX members, here is your new playlist:
5 Songs With the Word Ticket in Their Title
1. “Ticket to Ride” by The Beatles: Perhaps the ultimate ticket song! Start singing the chorus of this Fab Four classic the next time you make a big season ticket sale or fill the last seat in the house. It’ll feel so good!
2. “Two Tickets to Paradise” by Eddie Money: In this song, the track's narrator wants his lover to pack her bags because he “has two tickets to paradise” and they leave tonight. The man in the song does not specify where or what paradise is exactly. So, the listener can make it anywhere they thinks nirvana is, whether it’s Hawaii or Bermuda or Madison Square Garden and the next Billy Joel concert.
3. “One Way Ticket” by LeAnn Rimes: Some ticket songs can be metaphorical like this one. In this tune, Rimes describes taking risks and trying new things after a bad breakup. She purchases a one-way ticket westward to start her new life and hopes to fall in love again. A perfect song for anyone facing any sort of change in their ticketing or live events career.
4. “Change Your Ticket” by One Direction: The younger the INTIX member, the more they will remember Harry Styles and the boys singing, “Come on let me change your ticket home/Don’t go, it’s not the same when you’re gone.”
5. “Tickets” by Maroon 5: Come on, admit it! If you know the words to this song, you can’t tell me you haven’t sat at your desk or in your organization or venue’s ticket office and not sang to yourself (at least once): “She's got tickets to her own show/But nobody wants to go/And I'm stuck sitting in the front row/I'm singing along like there's no tomorrow.”
Five others: “Golden Ticket,” by Harry Connick, Jr.; “She’s Got Her Ticket,” by Tracy Chapman; “Ticket to Heaven,” by 3 Doors Down; “Ticket to Nowhere,” by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition; and “Ticket to the Moon,” by Electric Light Orchestra.
5 Songs That Mention Tickets Prominently, Just Not in the Title
1. “Teenage Dirtbag” by Wheatus: The song’s narrator is down, really down. He even confesses to feeling like mold … that is, until his high-school dream girl comes to him and coos, “I’ve got two tickets to Iron Maiden, baby. Come with me Friday, don’t say ‘Maybe.’” What’s her attraction? She’s just a teenage dirtbag like he is!
2. “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC: OK, there aren’t a lot of songs that mention tickets. And there are even fewer that mention season tickets. But this anthem to living wild and free by the iconic rock group boasts the awesome lyrics: “Living easy, lovin’ free/Season ticket on a one-way ride!”
3. “FREAK” by Demi Lovato (featuring YUNGBLUD): The former Disney Channel star fiercely owns her self-perceived status as a social oddity in this 2022 song, inviting future ticket buyers to her concerts to “Get your tickets to the freak show, baby/Step right up to watch the freak go crazy!”
4. “The Letter” by The Box Tops: It’s not about a ticket to a game or a show or a performance, but I can’t leave this iconic 1967 song off the list with its classic lyric, “Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane/Ain’t got time to take a fast train.”
5. “When It Rains It Pours” by Luke Combs: And what would a list like this be without at least one song about a lottery ticket? The country crooner is down on his luck at the beginning of this crossover hit. But then he buys a $100 scratch-off and it starts a winning streak that also includes buying a winning Moose Club raffle ticket for a used four-wheeler and golf course passes for him and his buddies.
Five others: Spandau Ballet “bought a ticket to the world” in their ‘80s pop hit, “True;” Marc Cohn bought a first-class ticket to Tennessee and then went “Walking in Memphis;” using “Cups” as percussion, Anna Kendrick got her ticket “for the long way ‘round;” Kenny Chesney had “two tickets to a tropical shore” where you and he won’t have to wear winter clothes anymore in “All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan;” and, proving that not all tickets are bought and sold, Elton John sang of Jesus Christ “handing out tickets for God” in the second verse of “Tiny Dancer.”
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Tags: Music , Leadership