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"Selena Gomez might have thought Miley Cyrus&amp;apos; performance at the MTV Video Music Awards was &amp;quot;amazing,&amp;quot; but Kelly Clarkson is not so easily impressed. The &amp;quot;Dark Side&amp;quot; singer, 31, tweeted a pretty harsh (but humorous) review of the Sunday, Aug. 25, show -- and though she didn&amp;apos;t call out Cyrus or any other performer by name, her tweet spoke volumes.\r\n&amp;quot;Just saw a couple performances from the VMAs last night,&amp;quot; the engaged American Idol alum wrote on Monday, Aug. 26. &amp;quot;2 words...#pitchystrippers.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nStripping was arguably the least vulgar part of Cyrus&amp;apos; raunchy duet with &amp;quot;Blurred Lines&amp;quot; singer Robin Thicke. After peeling away her one piece bodysuit to reveal a nude-colored bra and underwear set, the 20-year-old &amp;quot;We Can&amp;apos;t Stop&amp;quot; singer proceeded to grind against Thicke suggestively while making obscene gestures with a foam finger.\r\n&amp;quot;Things I learned from watching the #VMAs2013: There&amp;apos;s nothing you can do with a foam finger that you can&amp;apos;t air on MTV,&amp;quot; Dawson&amp;apos;s Creek alum James Van Der Beek tweeted of the show.\r\n\r\nQuipped Modern Family actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson: &amp;quot;I just watched the #VMAs &amp;amp; I know I&amp;apos;m going to have nightmares about Miley Cyrus playing a tiny harp where her &amp;apos;red light area&amp;apos; is.&amp;quot;\r\nCyrus&amp;apos; former TV mom Brooke Shields weighed in, too. Appearing on the Today show several hours after the star&amp;apos;s watercooler-worthy performance, Shields  joked: &amp;quot;I was Hannah Montana&amp;apos;s mother. I do not approve.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;I just want to know who&amp;apos;s advising her, and why it&amp;apos;s necessary. I mean, the whole finger thing, and the hand...Robin [Thicke] probably at that point was going, &amp;apos;I don&amp;apos;t think this is a good idea,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; the 48-year-old actress said. &amp;quot;[Our children] can&amp;apos;t watch that. I feel like it&amp;apos;s a bit desperate.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n(Incidentally, Shields is a former child star herself and no stranger to controversy. In 1978, when she was 12, she appeared nude in the movie Pretty Baby; three years later, she made headlines for her racy Calvin Klein ads.)\r\nOf course, Cyrus wasn&amp;apos;t the only one who stripped onstage during the VMAs. Lady Gaga, who opened the show at Brooklyn&amp;apos;s Barclays Center, also took off her clothes in the name of art. By the end of her performance, she was wearing little more than a seashell bra and matching thong."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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