A slew of incredibly memorable duos have taken to the stage during the MTV Video Music Awards' four-decade history.

There was Madonna making out with Britney Spears and then Christina Aguilera at the 2003 show , a Hennessy-toting Kanye West and the microphone he swiped from Taylor Swift during her 2009 acceptance speech, Beyoncé and the baby bump she revealed roughly five months ahead of daughter Blue Ivy 's 2012 arrival , plus Spears and Banana, the albino Burmese python she carried during her iconic 2001 performance .

"In my head I was saying, Just perform, just use your legs and perform ," the pop star recounted in her 2003 memoir The Woman In Me . "But what nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake brought its head right around t

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