Everybody was gagged by the kiss: a really historic second that the younger gays don’t fairly perceive the importance of (Getty)
Earlier than we had the pop energy trio that was Ariana Grande, Jessie J and Nicki Minaj, we had Britney, Madonna and Christina Aguilera dominating the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs).
A resurfaced clip of the trio performing Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” on the 2003 VMAs has gone viral on X/Twitter, racking up greater than 10 million views. It was posted with the caption: “In the present day’s gays don’t perceive the historic relevance of this sequence.”
The three stars have been then joined on stage by rapper Missy Elliott and launched into her hit “Work It.”
“This might be as if Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo would be a part of Beyoncé on stage for a lesbian kiss, adopted by Meghan as the most effective man,” the submit continued. “Do you perceive younger gays?”
The clip was a part of former MTV president Van Toffler’s need to honour the VMAs legacy, with a nod to the 1984 present, when Madonna carried out the worldwide chart-topper on the first awards present, in the end resulting in the efficiency in 2003.
Again then, the smooch was seen as “scandalous”, in keeping with Rolling Stone journal. Even in 2003, the New York Put up described the efficiency as a “raunchy, bump-and-grind dance routine that led to specific, open-mouth kisses”.
Madonna later stated that she “had no concept that it was going to trigger the ruckus that it prompted” and MTV obtained hate mail from an “older demographic” who have been disturbed by the efficiency.
Even Stevie Nicks, of Fleetwood Mac fame, wasn’t pleased about it. She instructed an Australian newspaper in 2003: “Initially, Madonna is just too previous to be kissing somebody who’s 22. And Britney ought to be smarter than that. Hopefully, she’s going to determine a method out of this gap she has dug for herself. I assumed it was essentially the most obnoxious second in tv historical past.”
Though everybody seemingly remembers solely Britney’s and Madonna kissing, the latter additionally locked lips with Aguilera however that wasn’t proven as a result of the producers determined to chop away to point out stay response photographs from the viewers. Specifically, the digital camera centered on Britney’s ex Justin Timberlake.
The pair went via a high-profile cut up in 2002, with the previous NSYNC boy-band member utilizing a Britney lookalike in his “Cry Me A River” music video.
The footage from the 2003 VMAs confirmed Timberlake trying very disapproving. The choice to chop away from Aguilera wasn’t intentional, in keeping with Toffler, who stated that “it’s important to make selections in a stay present”.
However Aguilera commented on the choice in 2018, saying: “It was an inexpensive shot. I noticed the newspaper the following day and was like: ‘Oh, properly, I assume I bought not noted of that one’.”
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