Britney Spears Tribute Planned For MTV Awards!

It's beginning to look like the 2011 edition of the "MTV Video Music Awards" on Sunday, Aug. 28, will be all about Britney Spears.

Reports this week pointed to something bigger than a performance plucked from the well-rehearsed lineup of her current "Femme Fatale" tour. Much bigger.


The pop superstar, at the tender age of 30, apparently will receive the "VMA Lifetime Achievement Award" presented by none other than Madonna, the 53-year-old star who blazed the career trail for Spears and famously lip-locked with her during a performance on the 2003 show.


That's impressive, if true, but as the website Popdust.com reported Sunday, Aug. 14, Madonna's trophy hand-off may only be the icing on the cake. More about the tribute was "leaked" via Twitter on Friday, Aug. 12, by TV producer and casting director Johnathan "Woody" Woodbeck, according to the website.


"If this lineup is legit (which I'm told it is) the tribute to Britney is gonna be insanely EPIC!!"


Get a load of this: Justin Bieber's girlfriend Selena Gomez will sing "Baby One More Time"; Katy Perry, who has tied Michael Jackson's record for the most No. 1 singles from a single album with "Teenage Dream," will do "(Oops) I Did it Again"; Janet Jackson will rock "(I'm A) Slave 4 U"; tween singer Demi Lavato will tackle "Toxic"; none other than Mother Monster herself, Lady Gaga, will take it to the "Circus"; and Kesha (aka K$sha) and Nicki Minaj get together for "Gimme More."


After all that, Spears will deliver "Hold It Against Me" and "I Wanna Go," two hits from "Femme Fatale."


If there's any air left in the room after all that, the show will go on.


Spears will be resting up, having wrapped up the first U.S. leg of her tour on Aug. 25 in Charlotte, N.C. On Sept. 22, she takes the tour to St. Petersburg, Russia, to kick off a heavy schedule of shows overseas.


She's come a long way from Kentwood, y'all.