Rihanna was the recipient of the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at MTV’s 2016 Video Music Awards on Sunday night, which meant she had the prime performance spots from the opening number to the very last note. Over the course of the show, she revisited highlights from virtually her entire career, with the notable exception of Bring It On: All or Nothing.

Rihanna started the show with a symphony in pink, dancing and singing snippets from “Don’t Stop the Music,” “Only Girl (In the World),” “We Found Love,” and “Where Have You Been” on a stage covered with cages of white balloons and pink-hoodied dancers. All four tracks have strong backing vocals, which came in handy because, deliberately or not, Rihanna’s choreography involved a lot of jerking the microphone away from her mouth, while the singing continued, like she was playing Club Silencio:

Rihanna’s second medley, introduced by Naomi Campbell, put her in a gigantic club for Caribbean-inflected versions of “Rude Boy,” “What’s My Name?” and “Work,” complete with air-horn transitions. The bleacher full of dancers forming a solid wall in the background was really impressive and probably featured the most people onstage at once all night:

For her third outing, Rihanna appeared on a smoke-filled stage in front of a massive projection screen to sing “Needed Me,” before a giant lightning bolt illuminated the stage and dancers joined her for aggressive renditions of “Pour It Up” and “Bitch Better Have My Money.” The projection screen said “low-budget psychedelia,” the lightning bolt said The Addams Family, and Rihanna said, “Pay me what you owe me.”

Her last appearance was her most impressive vocal performance, which is good, because it had the least interesting visuals: an all-white stage, backdrop, and piano. Rihanna skipped the elaborate choreography of the earlier numbers to focus on the microphone, singing “Stay,” “Shine Bright Like a Diamond,” and a thrilling rendition of “Love on the Brain,” complete with a live brass band. It was smart to show off her voice right before receiving the Video Vanguard Award, and equally smart to leave these songs for last so she didn’t have to save anything for later.

Watch her close the show out below: