Britney Spears To Debut ‘Make Me (Oooh)’ At MTV Video Music Awards?
Britney Spears could potentially be gearing up to perform her new single “Make Me (Oooh)” for the very first time at the MTV Video Music Awards next month.
According to reports, VMA producers are desperate to get Britney on board to perform at the big award show, which is set to take place on August 28, and allegedly think she’d be the perfect addition to the lineup after receiving rave reviews for her 2016 Billboard Music Awards performance earlier this year.
Claiming that Lady Gaga is also on the show’s list of stars show producers hoping will perform at the 2016 VMAs show, an inside source revealed to The Daily Star this week that “show bosses are always trying to make the show bigger and better and with Britney and Gaga they believe they can do that.”
The source also told the site that Britney “was on [the] hit list anyway” but those behind-the-scenes allegedly moved Spears to the top of their wish list after Britney blew away audiences with a medley of hits at the Billboard Music Awards on May 22.
Notably, Spears has not performed on the MTV awards show since 2007, where the star was largely ridiculed for her performance.
People reported at the time that Britney was “embarrassed” over her performance of “Gimme More” and claimed that last minute changes and nerves were behind Spears’ less-than-stellar performance.
“Britney was supposed to wear a matching corset that she opted out of wearing at the last minute,” a source told the site almost a decade ago. “She was just plain nervous because of all the hype and she’s embarrassed.”
However, it sounds like Britney is now ready to redeem herself should she take to the Video Music Awards stage this year, where fans are speculating that Spears could potentially perform her long-awaited new single “Make Me (Oooh)” for the first time.
According to the Daily Star, it’s thought that Spears’s first single from her upcoming ninth studio album “will finally drop on Friday, June 15,” around a month before the VMAs, though Spears and her team are still yet to confirm the official release date.
“‘Make Me (Oooh)'” music video is coming in 2 weeks. Britney is planning to do a huge performance at the VMAs,” Twitter user @recordingpop16 speculated, while @charliedelrico wrote on the social media site, “I really think Britney’s team is waiting for the VMAs to release ‘Make Me.’ Britney makes her triumphant return to the VMA stage.”
Britney fans have long been waiting for Spears to drop her new single, her first since she released her collaboration with Iggy Azalea, “Pretty Girls,” last year.
It was first reported that Spears was planning on debuting the track at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards, though the Las Vegas Sun‘s Vegas Deluxe shot down those reports just days before Britney took to the stage, claiming that “technical difficulties” had pushed back the release date.
“There’s no point in Britney previewing it so far in advance if we don’t even have a new release date yet,” a source told the site, adding that Spears was “truly saddened” to have had to delayed the release.
“We’re told that it’ll now be later in the summer,” the Spears source said at the time, “but we don’t even know exactly when yet until production hiccups are resolved.”
Do you think Britney Spears should perform “Make Me (Oooh)” at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards?
[Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images]
