A Colombian video vanguard, a paper boy turned global icon and America’s favorite antihero walked into a New Jersey arena on Tuesday night.

An epic MTV Video Music Awards ensued. in which the set collapses around her during a talent show performance.

Luckily, Rodrigo wasn’t dripping blood by the end of her VMAs performance, like she was in the music video. She quickly broke out from behind a blue curtain to perform “Get Him Back!”

the second song in the mashup performance, which she belted surrounded by a dozen Rodrigo lookalikes in pink pleated skirts.

‘NSYNC took the stage together again, but this time to kick off the awards ceremony by honoring Taylor Swift with the award for pop video, her first win of the night.

Joey Fatone, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick appeared on the VMA stage 10 years after their last performance together, and the audience cam caught the “unstoppable” Taylor Swift jumping to her feet, cheering and gasping — before she’d even won the award.