Remember Nicki Minaj’s Grammys exorcism?
Live performances are often beautiful, provocative, inspiring, shocking, but very rarely are they ever scary. It’s a shame, as some of the few, horror-leaning live performances that have graced pop culture’s many stages have also been some of the most artful and boundary pushing — not to mention entertaining.
Now that it’s Halloween season, NYLON is revisiting the live performances that’ve spooked us the most — and naturally blood, coffins, skeletons, and religious imagery abound. Below, we rounded up 13 of the spookiest music performances ever — from Nicki Minaj’s Grammys exorcism, to Travis Scott flying around on a gigantic evil bird, to Billie Eilish summoning the Babadook.There are many elements of Lady Gaga’s iconic 2009 VMAs performance of “Paparazzi” that are downright chilling — her jerky dance moves, the sudden appearance of blood, her dead-eyed stare while dangling from a rope — but it’s what the performance reflects back at us about celebrity culture that’s truly disturbing part. Or, maybe it’s just that stare.
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