15 VMA Performances That Were Anything But Boring

We hear it every year: "MTV isn't about the music." "The VMAs aren't what they used to be." Blah, blah, blah. While that may be the case to some degree, poring over decades of performances has us rethinking our jaded view of the Video Music Awards. Even the much-maligned early 2000s was rife with jaw-dropping performances that often topped the previous decades. (Who can forget Britney using a live python as a prop?) So, after reviewing every VMA show we could get our hands on, we narrowed it dow...