Rick Diamond/Getty Images for MTV Robin Thicke and Miley Cyrus performing at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.This week: Jon Caramanica talks with host Ben Ratliff about Miley Cyrus’s raunch intervention on this week’s MTV Video Music Awards: the good and the bad of it, the gratuitous and the necessary, and the Tumblr-y roughening of the summer of smooth.
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