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The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards were a tribute to the stubborn persistence of pop.

“Inside the arena, too, it seemed as if not paying direct attention was the norm, too, if the cutaway shots of the famous and bored during the show were any indication: One Direction studiously mute during the brief ’N Sync reunion, Drake averting his eyes as Miley Cyrus raunchily twerked, Rihanna barely moving her head for anyone.”