It looks like a pop star Britney Spears is a big fan of Sabrina Carpenter!
The “Espresso” singer performed at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, where she honored the Princess of Pop with a nod to her trip to Mars in the iconic “Oops!… I Did It Again” music video.
Sabrina Carpenter hinted at “Oops!…I Did It Again” at the 2024 MTV VMAs
Sabrina Carpenter was just one of many performances at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, but she made this one unforgettable by sharing a make-out session with an alien in between her medley of hits, which included “Please Please Please,” “Espresso,” and “Taste.”
The spoken interlude from the music video “Oops!… I Did It Again” could also be heard in the background. Although Britney Spears did not attend the event, she shared her thoughts on the tribute on Instagram the following day.
Britney Spears has a question for Sabrina Carpenter: “Why hasn’t she kissed a girl?”
On September 12, the “Toxic” singer admitted on Instagram that she didn’t watch the Video Music Awards live. However, she did watch Carpenter’s performance on YouTube the next day. Although she was honored by the award, she didn’t seem to understand why the singer kissed an alien instead of a girl.
“Why is she kissing an alien on stage? I adore her. I love her to death. I didn’t understand that part. Why didn’t she kiss a girl?” Spears asked, possibly referring to her infamous smooch with Madonna in 2003.
Spears later called the kiss “weird” before noting, “But I also thought the whole thing was kind of weird.”
Britney Spears says she forgets she’s famous!
It seems like “Crossroads” was actually a huge fan of Sabrina Carpenter and appreciated what she had to say about her on the red carpet. “That Sabrina girl, she said my name on the red carpet, and I thought that was kind of cool because sometimes I forget that I’m famous,” Spears recalled before listing some reasons why.
“Because I’m a mom, I’m pretty old, blah blah blah. But that was kind of cool…” she said. “She said something and I was like, ‘Thanks, that’s cool.’ She made me cool!”
Although she didn’t mimic a girl-on-girl kiss, Carpenter, who took home the award for song of the year, paid tribute to Madonna at the VMAs, wearing the same white dress Madonna wore to the 1991 Oscars.
Several pop stars paid tribute to Britney Spears
Throughout the evening there were numerous different tributes to Britney Spears. Halseywho announced her engagement on Instagram today, revealed that her absolute favorite moment at the Video Music Awards was the kiss between Britney Spears and Madonna. The singer Tate McRae also wore a black lace dress that seemed to be modeled after the pop star’s red carpet appearance at the 2001 VMAs.
However, one of the biggest honors of the evening came from Megan Thee Stallionwho recreated the Princess of Pop’s “I’m A Slave 4 U” costume from the 2001 VMAs, complete with a giant python.
“Stop the music, stop the music!” Megan said as the snake slithered around her. “I’m just playing! Come and get that snake! I don’t know that snake, that snake doesn’t know me. Oh my God. I tried to hold it for Britney.”
Britney says snake almost killed her during her VMA performance
One of my favorite performances was with an albino python 😳🐍💃🏼 … I still remember how scared I was when that snake was handed to me and I walked on stage!!! I wrote more about that performance and other favorites in my book #TheWomanInMe …I can’t wait for you to read it… pic.twitter.com/tXQpq7v3RV
— Britney Spears 🌹🚀 (@britneyspears) 6 September 2023
In her 2023 memoir, The Woman In Me, Britney Spears opened up about the viral moment that is still being talked about more than two decades later.
In her memoir, Spears wrote, “The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and we decided I would use a snake as a prop. It has become an iconic moment in VMA history, but it was even more terrifying than it seemed.”
“I just knew I had to look down because I felt like it would kill me if I looked up and caught his eye,” she added.
“In my head I said: Just perform, just use your legs and perform. But what nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake turned its head right in my face, right at me, and started hissing,” she wrote. “I thought, are you fucking serious? The damn snake’s tongue is darting out at me. Right. Now. I’m finally at the part where I give it back, thank God.”
