Britney Spears revealed that she was very nervous to carry out with a snake throughout her traditional “I’m A Slave 4 U” efficiency on the 2001 MTV VMAs. Whereas teasing her upcoming memoir The Girl In Me, the popstar, 41, revealed that whereas the efficiency was a “favourite,” she was afraid about performing with a stay reptile. She stated she was excited to share her ideas together with her followers within the tweet on Wednesday, Sep. 6.
One in all my favourite performances was with an albino python 😳🐍💃🏼 … I nonetheless bear in mind how scared I felt after I was handed this snake and took the stage !!! I talked extra about this efficiency and different favorites in my guide #TheWomanInMe … I can’t wait so that you can learn it on… pic.twitter.com/tXQpq7v3RV
— Britney Spears 🌹🚀 (@britneyspears) September 6, 2023
Posting it with a clip from the enduring efficiency, Britney admitted that she will be able to nonetheless recall the second earlier than the present vividly. “One in all my favourite performances was with an albino python,” she wrote. “I nonetheless bear in mind how scared I felt after I was handed this snake and took the stage!”
Clearly, the concern didn’t get the most effective of Britney! The efficiency continues to be extensively thought-about considered one of her finest, and other people nonetheless talk about the star singing and dancing with the python round her neck. She promised to speak about that efficiency and others in her upcoming guide, which can come out on October 24.
It’s solely becoming that Britney mirrored on considered one of her most well-known VMA performances of all-time with the annual award present developing quickly. The singer has carried out on the award present 5 occasions, together with her first efficiency being in 1999 and her final in 2016. All through these performances, she’s additionally gotten to share the stage with different enormous stars, like Madonna. In 2011, she was honored with the Video Vanguard Award, which commemorates a lifetime of feat in music and movies. The 2023 MTV VMAs will air on Tuesday, Sept. 12.
Whereas the memoir will hopefully shed some gentle on the traditional efficiency, it’s not the primary time that Britney has regarded again on the 2001 VMAs. In 2021, she marked the twentieth anniversary of the efficiency by dressing up because the snake itself. “I held a snake on the @VMAs one time however determined to go forward 20 years later and change into the motherf***ing snake myself,” she wrote in an Instagram caption.