It's Up for Debate: Andrew Yang vs. Scott Jennings New York Performances

At the Hammerstein Ballroom, *It’s Up for Debate: Andrew Yang vs. Scott Jennings* stages a live, music-forward forum built around direct argument and plainspoken delivery. Yang comes in with a recorded trail that moves through mandopop, Taiwanese and broader C-pop, and Malay pop, backed by an online audience of roughly 249,000. Jennings treats songwriting as a way to test positions in public, using narrative framing as his method. The result has the feel of a New York hybrid-night tradition, where performance and civic speech share the same mic, and the tension is the point.