Lil Tay Recreates ‘I’m A Slave 4 U’ Britney Spears Look With A REAL Snake

Social media sensation Lil Tay is trying to make a comeback and her Halloween costume is definitely helping her get noticed!

The controversial YouTuber shared a few photos of her recreating the “I’m A Slave 4 U” costume worn by Britney Spears. Although some followers thought that the snake was fake, fans who swiped through the carousel got to see a video proving that she was holding a REAL snake!

It looks like Lil Tay is definitely trying to get noticed by the Princess of Pop herself, as she tagged her in the caption of her Instagram post. Although some fans gushed over her toned abs and revealing costume, other followers who have been following the child star for a while tried to remind everyone that she is only fourteen years old!

“The fact that the comments are half adults thirsting over a FOURTEEN yr old and half people hating on HER for sexualizing herself instead of the people in her life and society that tell her it’s okay as if she’s not a literal child is upsetting, to say the least. and don’t get me started on how telling it is that she’s dressed as BRITNEY of all people…” one fan commented.

“Bro she’s 14 sexualizing HERSELF. That’s the problem,” another follower wrote. “I swear she was a 9-year-old a year ago. What happened?” another fan asked. “Let’s remember she’s a minor. Keep it clean!” another follower urged. “When I was 14, I was still playing with Barbie and wearing random clothes that my mom put me in,” another fan lamented.

On September 6, over a month before her memoir "The Woman In Me" was released on October 24, Britney took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to give fans a look at her iconic performance. In the caption, she wrote, "One of my favorite performances was with an albino python … I still remember how scared I felt when 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 24."

The performance is from the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards and fans might be startled to learn that Lil Tay wasn't even born when the "Toxic" singer made pop culture history! In an excerpt from “The Woman In Me” published by People magazine on Tuesday, the “Toxic” singer described what it was like performing with a giant snake wrapped around her shoulders.

“The plan was for me to sing ‘I’m a Slave 4 U,’ 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,” Britney wrote in her memoir. “All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.”

"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,” she continued. “I was thinking, Are you f---ing serious right now? The f---ing god--- snake’s tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now. Finally, I got to the part where I handed it back, thank God."

Britney Spears’ tell-all memoir, “The Woman In Me,” was officially released on Tuesday, October 24, 2023.