Megan Thee Stallion panicked as she recreated Britney Spears‘ iconic snake dance while hosting the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards this Wednesday.
Britney famously performed her number I’m A Slave 4 U at the 2001 VMAs with a live Burmese python draped around her neck and over her arms.
She has since recalled being terrified that the serpent would ‘kill’ her if she ‘caught its eye’ as she twirled around the stage that night.
Now Megan has reenacted the moment while hosting this year’s ceremony, appearing with a real python that bore a striking resemblance to Britney’s.
Just as Britney was all those years ago, Megan was frightened of the animal, which began slithering alarmingly around her crotch.
Megan Thee Stallion recreated Britney Spears ‘ iconic snake dance while hosting the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Long Island this Wednesday
Britney famously performed her number I’m A Slave 4 U at the 2001 VMAs with a live python draped around her neck and over her arms
As the show resumed after a commercial break, the VMAs played a clip of Britney’s performance of I’m A Slave 4 U with the python.
Then Megan appeared, decked out in a costume that was an almost exact facsimile of the one that Britney wore during her 2001 snake moment.
There was also a live python winding its way around both of her arms, as the expression of dread on Megan’s face grew more and more pronounced.
‘Okay! Okay! Stop the music, stop the music!’ Megan fretted. ‘I’m just playing. Come get this snake. I don’t know this snake. This snake don’t know me.’
She eventually became so afraid that she let out a protracted squeal of: ‘Oh my God1’ as someone finally prised the snake away from her.
‘I tried to hold it down for Britney,’ she told the audience, earning an appreciative round of applause before she introduced the next presenter, Paris Hilton.
Social media erupted in excitement over the tribute, with fans sharing their hopes that Britney and Megan will collaborate on music together.
One viewer observed: ‘megan being terrified just makes it insane to believe a then 19-year-old Britney Spears managed to pull off performance carrying that snake/ in a cage with a tiger.’