Hello hello and good morning! The VMAs were a mess, as usual, but the red carpet was somewhat—SOMEWHAT—more subdued. Let’s dive in.

WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME! Tonight we’ll be liveblogging every painstaking performance, every Miley tongue-wag, every moment Taylor Swift debuts her new video which was shot on an African safari! (TRUE!) It’s what you spent your summer looking forward to: the MTV VMAs, baby!

At the end of Justin Bieber’s back-to-back performances of his most recent singles, in which he FLOATED IN MID-AIR, Young Biebs appeared to break down in tears.

Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj’s confrontation over Miley’s recent quotes to the New York Times about Nicki’s now-resolved Twitter fight with Taylor Swift came, as anticipated, at the 2015 MTV VMAs, after Nicki and Taylor kissed and made up with a joint performance only a few minutes earlier.

Nicki Minaj opened the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards show with her carnival anthem “Trini Dem Girls” in a mean red feathered costume ready for the road. Taylor Swift joined Minaj during her second number “The Night Is Still Young” and a blip of “Bad Blood,” putting an end to their Twitter disagreement by cuddling on…

Imagine the group text Taylor Swift and her “squad” had over their outfits for the 2015 VMAs.

Jeremy Scott took inspiration from television itself, Vanessa Hudgens tries to Glinda the Good Witch it up, and Demi Lovato stepped directly out of the ocean looking perfect. If you had to Fuck/Marry/Kill the above outfits see on the 2015 VMAs red carpet, how would you choose?

Commitment: it’s tricky. (Murder is too.) If you had to Fuck/Marry/Kill the above outfits see on the 2015 VMAs red carpet, how would you choose?

If ever there were a photo deserving of a New Yorker style caption contest, it’s this: Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez hitting the carpet at Sunday night’s VMAs giving full-on Mona Lisa smiles (and/or bad blood side-eyes). What are they thinking? What do you think they are thinking?