Unable to keep her composure, Megan Thee Stallion starts to panic during her Britney Spears tribute during the 2024 MTV VMA Awards.
While paying tribute to the Princess of Pop, Megan decided to the award show’s host decided to cosplay by wearing an outfit similar to the one that Spears wore for her iconic “Slave 4 U” performance at the 2001 MTV VMAs.
The outfit could not be complete without an albino python being worn as an accessory. However, unlike Britney Spears, Megan Thee Stallion was unable to keep it together and started panicking as the reptile hung onto her arms.
“OK! OK! Stop the music! Stop the music!” the “WAP” hitmaker declared. “I’m just playing! Come get this thing! I don’t know this thing; this thing don’t know me.”
The animal’s handler quickly came to the rapper’s aid and carefully removed it from her body. As the handler removed the reptile, Megan let out a scream and ran away. She then smiled nervously, fixed her hair, and went back to her hosting duties.
“I tried to hold it down for Britney!” Megan Thee Stallion stated after the ordeal.
Britney Spears previously stated her 2001 MTV VMA Award show performance was one of her favorites. “One of my favorite performances was with an albino python,” she said in a Sept. 2023 post on X (formerly Twitter). “I still remember how scared I felt when I was handed this snake and took the stage!!!”
Britney Spears Reflects on Her ‘Slave 4 U’ MTV VMA Awards Performance
In her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, Britney Spears recalled her epic “Slave 4 U” MTV VMA Awards performance and how terrified she actually was of the snake.
“The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’” Britney wrote, per PEOPLE. “And we decided I would use a snake as a prop. It’s become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared. All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.”
She then remembered what she was thinking the entire performance. “In my head I was saying, Just perform, just use your legs and perform. But what nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake brought its head right around to my face, right up to me, and started hissing.”
The pop star continued, “I was thinking, Are you f—ing serious right now? The f—ing goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now. Finally, I got to the part where I handed it back, thank God.”