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 result 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 effectively. Though Britney Spears didn’t attend the occasion, she did take to Instagram the next day with a purpose to share her ideas on the tribute.

On September 12, the “Poisonous” singer took to Instagram to admit that she didn’t really watch the Video Music Awards stay. 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 like her to dying. 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 type of bizarre altogether.”

It looks as if the “Crossroads” is definitely a giant fan of Sabrina Carpenter and appreciated what she needed to say about her on the pink carpet. “This Sabrina woman, she stated my identify on the pink carpet, and I assumed that was type 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“As a result of I’m a mother, I’m type of outdated, blah blah blah. However that was type of cool…” she stated. “She stated 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 gown that Madonna wore to the Oscars in 1991.

There have been many alternative tributes to Britney Spears that appeared all through the evening. Halsey, who simply announced her engagement on Instagram earlier at the moment, 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 gown that seemed to be recreated from the pop star’s pink carpet take a look at the 2001 VMAs.

One of many greatest tributes of the evening, nonetheless, really 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 stated 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 Girl 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 might use a snake as a prop. It’s develop into an iconic second in VMA historical past, however it was much more terrifying than it appeared.”

“All I knew was to look down as a result of I felt if I seemed 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 person 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 pondering, Are you f—ing severe proper now? The f—ing god— snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Proper. Now. Lastly, I acquired to the half the place I handed it again, thank God.”