While Miley Cyrus was twerking at the VMAs and doing some disrobed demolition, Taylor Swift was gearing up to release her blockbuster "1989" album. Although her past work always had hints of pop, it was the first time she fully abandoned her country roots. With squeaky-clean singles like "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space," she served as a sharp contrast to Cyrus' bad-girl image. Cyrus didn't exactly buy her persona, criticizing Swift's then-squad of supermodels and starlets. The "We Can't Stop" singer told The New York Times, "I'm not trying to be in the squad. None of my friends are famous and not because of any other reason than I just like real people who are living real lives, because I'm inspired by them." Shots fired!

Besides seemingly calling Swift's posse manufactured, Cyrus also pointed out a double standard between Swift's music videos and her own. The "Bad Blood" video, which featured Swift and her famous friends as action heroines, received much less backlash than Cyrus' risqué ones despite its violence and mean girl message directed at Katy Perry. Cyrus told Marie Claire, "I don't get the violence revenge thing. That's supposed to be a good example?" before questioning how her own explicit videos are worse.

Swift never responded to Cyrus' critiques, likely too busy with her other feuds, but it wouldn't be the last time Cyrus took a wrecking ball to their former friendship.

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