Sabrina Carpenter Crawls Out of the Sewer at the VMAs!

Sabrina Carpenter just proved she’s not afraid to get a little dirty at the MTV Video Music Awards. The pop star made her grand entrance for her live debut of Tears by literally crawling up through a sewer grate in the middle of the stage. Not exactly your typical spotlight walk-on, but it fits the campy, theatrical energy Sabrina has been serving all year.

Once she was out of the gutter, Sabrina turned the VMAs into her own disco-fueled playground, dripping in Rocky Horror-style glam while belting out the track that has everyone talking. The performance was wild, sexy, and just the right amount of unhinged—the kind of thing that makes you think MTV might still have some magic left in it. Leave it to Sabrina to make a sewer entrance look like the hottest ticket in town.