Britney Spears Says Sabrina Carpenter ‘Made Me Cool’ After VMAs Performance

The “Espresso” singer carried out on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on September 11, the place she appeared to honor the Princess of Pop with a nod to her journey to Mars within the iconic “Oops!… I Did It Once more” music video.

Sabrina Carpenter was simply one of many many performances on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards, however she made it memorable as a consequence of a make-out session with an alien that occurred in between her medley of hits, which included “Please Please Please,” “Espresso,” and “Style.”

The spoken interlude from the “Oops!… I Did It Once more” music video might be heard within the background as properly. Though Britney Spears didn’t attend the occasion, she did take to Instagram the next day with the intention to share her ideas on the tribute.

On September 12, the “Poisonous” singer took to Instagram to admit that she didn’t truly watch the Video Music Awards dwell. She did, nonetheless, watch Carpenter’s efficiency on YouTube the next day. Though she was honored by the tribute, she did not appear to know why the singer was kissing an alien as a substitute of a lady.

“Why is she kissing an alien onstage? I like her. I really like her to loss of life. I didn’t perceive that half. Why didn’t she kiss a lady?” Spears requested, probably referring to her infamous 2003 smooch with Madonna.

Spears went on to name the kiss “bizarre” earlier than noting, “However I additionally thought that the entire thing was form of bizarre altogether.”

It looks like the “Crossroads” is definitely an enormous fan of Sabrina Carpenter and appreciated what she needed to say about her on the purple carpet. “This Sabrina woman, she mentioned my identify on the purple carpet, and I believed that was form of cool as a result of I neglect I’m well-known generally,” Spears recalled earlier than itemizing a number of explanation why.

“As a result of I’m a mother, I’m form of outdated, blah blah blah. However that was form of cool…” she mentioned. “She mentioned one thing and I used to be like, ‘Thanks, that’s cool.’ She made me cool!”

Though she didn’t replicate a girl-on-girl kiss, Carpenter, who took home a win for Song of the Year, paid tribute to Madonna on the VMAs, sporting the identical white costume that Madonna wore to the Oscars in 1991.

There have been many various tributes to Britney Spears that appeared all through the evening. Halsey, who simply announced her engagement on Instagram earlier as we speak, revealed that her all-time favourite Video Music Awards second was the kiss that was shared between Britney Spears and Madonna. Singer Tate McRae additionally wore a lacy black costume that gave the impression to be recreated from the pop star’s purple carpet have a look at the 2001 VMAs.

One of many largest tributes of the evening, nonetheless, truly got here from Megan Thee Stallion, who recreated the Princess of Pop’s “I am A Slave 4 U” costume from the 2001 VMAs, full with a large python.

“Cease the music, cease the music!” Megan mentioned because the snake slithered round her. “I’m simply playin’! Come get this snake! I don’t know this snake, this snake don’t know me. Oh my God. I attempted to carry it down for Britney.”

In her 2023 memoir “The Lady In Me,” Britney Spears opened up on the viral second that’s nonetheless being talked about over 20 years later.

In her memoir, Spears wrote, “The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ and we determined I’d use a snake as a prop. It’s turn into an iconic second in VMA historical past, nevertheless it was much more terrifying than it appeared.”

“All I knew was to look down as a result of I felt if I regarded up and caught its eye, it could kill me,” she added.

“In my head I used to be saying, Simply carry out, simply use your legs and carry out. However what no one is aware of is that as I used to be singing, the snake introduced its head proper round to my face, proper as much as me, and began hissing,” she wrote. “I used to be considering, Are you f—ing critical proper now? The f—ing god— snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Proper. Now. Lastly, I obtained to the half the place I handed it again, thank God.”