Britney Spears has admitted she was ‘scared’ when she needed to dance with a snake on the 2001 MTV VMAs. (Getty Images)
Britney Spears is wanting again on considered one of her most iconic performances of all time – the 2001 VMAs efficiency of “I’m A Slave 4 U.”
The pop legend is building anticipation for her upcoming memoir, The Woman In Me, set to hit cabinets this autumn. And with the MTV Video Music Awards set to air subsequent week, it was solely becoming that Britney teased followers with a tidbit from her personal legendary VMAs slot.
Sharing video footage from the efficiency to Instagram, Spears confessed that, whereas it could have appeared like she knew precisely what she was doing with that snake, she was completely petrified.
“One of my favorite performances was with an albino python,” she wrote.
“I nonetheless bear in mind how scared I felt once I was handed this snake and took the stage !!!
“I talked more about this performance and other favorites in my book #TheWomanInMe … I can’t wait for you to read it on October 24th.”
Spears was simply 19 years previous when she took to the VMAs stage with a 25-pound python draped over her shoulders. The efficiency was so jaw-dropping that it helped shoot “I’m A Slave 4 U” as much as No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
By this level, the triple-threat had already solidified her VMAs standing together with her 1999 debut alongside *NSYNC, and her 2000 mash-up of “Oops!… I Did It Again” and The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction”.
Brit finally took a yr off in 2002 – solely to return in 2003 with one of the vital surprising VMAs performances of all time alongside Christina Aguilera and Madonna. You know the one.
Britney’s tell-all memoir
Spears is promising behind-the-scenes particulars into profession moments like this in her upcoming memoir, which is marketed by publishers Gallery Books as “a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.”
The writer additionally states that The Woman In Me will reveal “for the first time her incredible journey [and] strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history” and “illuminates the enduring power of music and love – and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.”
The finer particulars of what’s going to be included within the memoir haven’t been revealed as of but, however with Spears discovering her voice once more after dwelling beneath a strict and sophisticated conservatorship for 14 years, persons are anticipating her to let all of it out.
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