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"For Taylor Swift, the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards felt like the perfect night to make fun of her exes. The 23-year-old singer, known for her breakup anthems, appeared to slam ex-boyfriend Harry Styles and presumably Jake Gyllenhaal during the show at Brooklyn&amp;apos;s Barclays Center on Sunday, Aug. 25. But Styles&amp;apos; One Direction bandmates rushed to Styles&amp;apos; defense the following night at the premiere of their This Is Us concert documentary in New York City.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;We were a bit confused,&amp;quot; Louis Tomlinson told Us Weekly. &amp;quot;We thought she was actually calling out Niall [Horan] so the whole thing&amp;apos;s a bit confusing.&amp;quot;\r\nLiam Payne added, &amp;quot;I just thought it was a bit not needed. I mean, you just won an award, it&amp;apos;s like, concentrate on yourself!&amp;quot; When a reporter asked if Swift&amp;apos;s behavior was &amp;quot;lame,&amp;quot; Payne agreed, saying,  &amp;quot;Yeah.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nWhile Styles, 19, presented an award with One Direction onstage, Swift, sitting beside pal Selena Gomez in the audience, was filmed appearing to mouth &amp;quot;shut the f--- up!&amp;quot; (Swift and Styles broke up in early January after a couple months of dating.)\r\nLater, while accepting the award for Best Female Video for her &amp;quot;I Knew You Were Trouble&amp;quot; hit, Swift took another dig at an ex. &amp;quot;Thank you. Wow. I want to thank the fans because I tweeted about this a lot, I really really wanted this,&amp;quot; she said of the track from her fourth studio album, Red, which was released in October 2012. &amp;quot;I also want to thank the person that inspired this song, and he knows exactly who he is, because I got one of these!&amp;quot; (&amp;quot;I Knew You Were Trouble&amp;quot; was presumably inspired by Swift&amp;apos;s high-profile romance in late-2010 with Gyllenhaal.)\r\n\r\nThough Styles didn&amp;apos;t comment on Swift seemingly cursing him out from the audience, he did share his thoughts with Us about another controversial moment from the VMAs show: Miley Cyrus&amp;apos; raunchy performance.\r\n&amp;quot;I thought it was very reserved. I thought she was very, you know, timid,&amp;quot; Styles joked. &amp;quot;She&amp;apos;s quite shy. I think she needs to come out of her shell a bit more.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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