Updated 10:51 p.m. ET
The rumors were true: *NSYNC reunited at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Justin Timberlake was joined onstage by JC Chasez, Lance Bass, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick for a brief rendition of "Bye Bye Bye" during Sunday night's show.
MTV Video Music Awards 2013 show highlights
The much-hyped reunion happened as Timberlake performed a medley of his solo hits, including "SexyBack," "Senorita" and "Suit & Tie."
His performance and the *NSYNC reunion took over the awards ceremony, wrestling the spotlight away from a rehabilitated Lady Gaga, an X-rated Miley Cyrus and a vengeful Taylor Swift with a medley of hits and the reunion of his former boy band.
Timberlake -- the night's top nominee with early leader Macklemore & Ryan Lewis -- also was given the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award by Jimmy Fallon, who hailed his pal as the "president of pop."
"I don't deserve the award, but I'm not going to give it back," Timberlake said. "I'm taking this home."
He then thanked his *NSYNC band mates. "Half of the moonmen I've ever won, I won with those four guys right there," Timberlake said pointing at his former band mates while holding the Vanguard trophy. "So above all else, I'm going to share this -- we can keep it my house -- but I'm going to share this award with them."
Up till then, the ladies of pop music dominated as Cyrus became the rare artist to upstage Lady Gaga. But Swift managed to take the spotlight from both after appearing to utter an expletive when One Direction and rumored former love interest Harry Styles appeared at Sunday night's award show -- a moment that lit up Twitter and was memorialized immediately in a GIF online.
She also thanked a former beau for helping her win another moonman trophy for "I Knew You Were Trouble" in the best female video category.
"I also want to thank the person who inspired this song, who knows exactly who he is, because I got one of these," Swift said. "Thank you so much!"
Gaga changed costumes four times as she performed "Applause," the first single off her latest album, "Artpop." It was a predictably unpredictable appearance for Gaga, who seemed to pump in boos over the over the sound system as she opened the song in a white nun's habit and square headdress. By the time she finished the song, she was surrounded by unitard-clad male dancers and wearing a thong bikini decorated in shells and a long blonde wig.
Cyrus immediately kicked things up well beyond provocative, appearing onstage with a multitude of dancing teddy bears in a bodysuit adorned with a cartoon character as she sang "We Can't Stop." She twerked, changed into a nude bikini, ran a fan's foam finger along her privates as Robin Thicke appeared on stage to perform "Blurred Lines," then gave the singer a lap dance.
"Miley better go get a pregnancy test after all that grinding," Kevin Hart (who hosted last year's VMAs) joked afterward.
MTV Video Music Awards 2013 red carpet
Gaga and Cyrus were just the first of a cavalcade of music's top stars performing Sunday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where the awards were held for the first time.
Kanye West continued his stark portrayal of new music from his album "Yeezus," performing "Blood on the Leaves" with its controversial Nina Simone "Strange Fruit" sample in silhouette in front of a black and white picture of a tree.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis were the early leaders, taking best hip-hop video for "Thrift Shop" and best video with a social message for their song "Same Love," which espouses marriage equality.
"Gay rights are human rights," Macklemore said during the telecast. "There is no separation."
Other early winners included Pink and Nate Ruess for best collaboration, Thirty Seconds to Mars for best rock video and Selena Gomez for best pop video.
Timberlake's "Mirrors" is up for video of the year. Thicke's "Blurred Lines" featuring T.I. and Pharrell, Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" and Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" round out the category.
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