Britney Spears does not crack under pressure; despite being handed a real, live snake onstage as she performed at the 2001 MTV's Video Music Awards, she was flawless.
"One of my favorite performances was with an albino python," Spears reminisced in a recent Instagram post. "I still remember how scared I felt when I was handed this snake and took the stage!"
The spectacular performance has been cemented into pop culture history forever, as one of the most iconic and thrilling live performances at the turn of the new millennium.
Spears also revealed that she wrote about the performance in her upcoming memoir, "The Woman in Me," which will be out on Oct. 24.
21 years ago, britney spears performed ‘i’m a slave 4 u’ with a snake at the vmas. she was only 19, iconic.
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Britney Spears' 2001 MTV VMAs Performance
According to reports, Spears was singing her song "I'm a Slave 4 U," which was produced by Chad Hugo and Pharrell Williams.
Despite the song being released over 20 years ago, it is still considered as one of the best songs Spears has ever released. It did not garner much success following its release but shot up the music charts after the 2001 MTV VMAs performance.
To this day, fans still regard it as one of the singer's best performances. "It;s a game changer!" a fan wrote.
"So iconic. This performance was inspired in Aaliyah since she was going to perform 'We Need A Resolution' with snakes and everything but she died before the VMAs," another wrote.
"There will never be another iconic VMAs moment on the same level as this performance from the legendary Ms. Britney Spears."
Britney Spears Changes Pop Culture History
While Spears has been locked up in the 13-year-long conservatorship, fans, and netizens have never quite really moved on from the singer or the height of her success.
She reportedly "cemented her status as Queen of the VMA stage" after that performance.
She has not released new solo music since she was freed two years ago, but it seems like the "Oops I Did It Again" singer is slowly but surely easing back into her pop music roots by looking back at her past with the help of her upcoming memoir.
According to reports, not only will Spears talk about the process behind the iconic performance in her memoir, she will also be discussing the controversial conservatorship and the events that led to it.
