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On August 28, 2016 the VMA's were held at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Rihanna received the Video Vanguard Award, and Beyoncé won 8 awards that night, overtaking Madonna's record of most moonmen with a total of 26. That year, also marked the return of Britney Spears to the VMA's stage since her last, heavily criticized performance in 2007. Britney performed the lead single off her ninth studio album Glory, Make Me... which features rapper G-Eazy. He joined her onstage to do his rap, and then the performance transitioned to Me, Myself and I, a song originally performed by G-Eazy and Bebe Rexha. They closed the number by doing the final part of Make Me...

On July 15, 2016, Britney Spears released Make Me... as the lead single off her ninth studio album Glory. It featured the rapper G-Eazy. The track was written by Britney, Matthew Burns, Joe Janiak and G-Eazy, while produced by Burns, with Mischke serving as a vocal producer. Commercially, the song reached top-ten peaks in Finland, Hungary, and Israel while reaching top-twenty in Canada, France, Scotland, top forty in Australia and in the United States where it charted at number seventeen on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Dance Club Songs chart. As of April 2018, Make Me... was certified platinum by the RIAA for combined sales and streams of 1 million units in the US. The audio clip on Britney's official YouTube channel has over 32 million views. The song received a music video the following month, but we'll leave that anniversary for later...