After scoring Best Pop Video honors primeval in the show, Britney Spears returned to the initiate to obtain the archangel politician Video Vanguard Award at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on Sun period (August 28).
The "Hold It Against Me Singer" was introduced by Lady Gaga's alter-ego, Jo Calderone, who titled her an "inspiration" patch informing the Nokia Theatre audience, "She taught us every how to be fearless, and the business wouldn't be the aforementioned without her."
Talking to MTV after the show, Spears vocal her experience in the Video Vanguard Award presentation, as she said, "It was rattling crazy. I had no intent what to expect. The kids were awful and so entertaining, and it was a rattling recreation night. It was rattling cool. I was like, 'Wow, that's rattling sweet!'
The "29-year-old added, "I idolized the lowercase woman in the 'Slave' outfit. She was meet so tiny and she delivered and she had much a enthusiastic performance.... They were every so great, and you could verify they worked rattling hard."
Also mentioning Gaga's intro (which included an impromptu smooch, Britney gushed, "She was in flooded character! We meet got onstage and we meet category of change it out; we didn't undergo what was feat on, so it was interesting!"