Nine Inch Nails were our 2025 Live Act of the Year due to a dynamic show that included a cinematic four-act structure, a striking B-stage setup, a wide-ranging setlist, and some of the most spectacular lighting ever seen. Yet for John Waters, he found NIN’s audience the most interesting part of it all.
During a recent appearance on La Culturistas, the Pope of Trash shared that he caught NIN’s show in Anaheim earlier this year. “I just like looking at the audience. It’s wild,” Waters observed. “I just like to look at the kids. I just think they look great and they’re having fun. And I’m always the oldest person there ever since William Burroughs died. I’m the oldest person at these events, and—not that I’m the same, but he was always the oldest when I was and went anywhere.”
“I just like to see the energy of it,” he added. “I hate old people my age who say, ‘We had more fun.’ No you didn’t, you just don’t know what’s going on.”
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