By Leah Ornstein – Radar Features Editor 
 
 What better way to get revenge on a former lover, than to humiliate them with a hit song? 
 
 Taylor Swift’s latest album Red, which was released on Monday, is full of music about her former flames, but she isn’t the only crooner to attract attention by slamming her exes in tune! RadarOnline.com has photos and details about 10 famous revenge songs written about famous failed romances. 
 
 PHOTOS: Stars Who’ve Slammed Their Exes In Songs 
 
 Though Mariah Carey denies ever having a fling with rapper Eminem, the two have certainly gone public with their disdain for each other. After the Em rapped about his romance with the singer and slammed her husband Nick Cannon in his hit tune Bagpipes from Baghdad, Mariah didn’t waste any time before releasing the song Obsessed, which even featured an Eminem lookalike in the music video and made reference to the rapper’s drug problem. It didn’t end there! A few months later, the Detroit native fired back with the song, The Warning. 
 
 Isn’t it Ironic, don’t you think, that Alanis Morissette made a name for herself as a musician and got revenge on an ex simultaneously? After a bitter split from Full House star Dave Coulier, the Canadian singer penned the hit song You Oughta Know. Ouch! 
 
 Justin Timberlake kept pretty quiet about the rumors that his breakup with Britney Spears was spawned by infidelity, but his hit song Cry Me A River, that featured a Britney look alike in the music video, definitely insinuated that the rumors were true! 
 
 Andre 3000 attacked his baby mama Erykah Badu in the hit Outkast tune Mr. Jackson, while Carly Simon’s had people guessing for years which of her celebrity exes is responsible for the classic tune You’re So Vain – though Warren Beatty is convinced the song is about him. 
 
 Which other stars have slammed their exes in songs? Find out by clicking here. ||||| Rihanna, right, embraces Drake as she accepts the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in New York.(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 Rihanna, right, embraces Drake as she accepts the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award at the MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, in New York.(Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce proved once again she is the contemporary rock star, and she used the MTV Video Music Awards stage to showcase her skills and outshine her peers, from Rihanna to Britney Spears. 
 
 Beyonce won eight awards, including video of the year, and performed five songs from her visual album "Lemonade" in an epic 16-minute concert Sunday that had the audience at Madison Square Garden in awe. 
 
 She sang live, danced heavily and worked the crowd as she ran through "Pray You Catch Me," ''Hold Up," ''Sorry," ''Don't Hurt Yourself" and "Formation," which won the top prize over Adele, Drake, Justin Bieber and Kanye West. 
 
 "First of all, I'd like to thank my beautiful daughter and my incredible husband for all of their support," said Beyonce, who walked the carpet with daughter Blue Ivy and the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner — who all appeared in "Lemonade" movie. 
 
 It was reminiscent of the 2014 VMAs, when Beyonce also performed for 16 minutes and accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award. This year it was awarded to Rihanna, who split up her performances throughout the night, singing hits such as "Work," ''We Found Love" and "Love on the Brain." 
 
 But the biggest moment for Rihanna came when Drake — in a tuxedo — presented the award to his former girlfriend. He said he met Rihanna in 2005 on the set of her first music video for "Pon de Replay." 
 
 "She's someone I've been in love with her since I was 22 years old," Drake said as Rihanna blushed and the audience cheered loudly. "She's one of my best friends in the world. All of my adult life I've looked up to her even though she's younger than me." 
 
 Rihanna, 28, thanked her family, friends and hometown of Saint Michael, Barbados, for helping her succeed in her 11-year-career. 
 
 "My success started as my dream, but now my success is not my own. It's my family, my fans, my country ...it's women, it's black women," she said. 
 
 Beyonce's top-notch performance starkly contrasted with that of Spears, who returned to the VMA stage after 10 years. Not only did she lip sync, in typical fashion, but she did so badly. Spears performed her hit "Make Me..." and danced slickly, but she didn't actually sing a word of the song live. She was joined by rapper G-Eazy — and she lip synched the hook to his hit song, "Me, Myself and I." 
 
 In true Kanye fashion, the rapper ranted onstage, touching on subjects from music to his beef with Taylor Swift to violence in his hometown Chicago before he debuted his music video for "Fade," which starred Teyana Taylor. He talked about his "Famous" video, which features what appear to be naked images of himself, his wife Kim Kardashian, Swift, Donald Trump and others. He even pointed to former girlfriend Amber Rose, who was in the audience and is also in the video. 
 
 Drake won best hip hop video for "Hotline Bling" and Calvin Harris won best male video for "This is What You Came For." David Bowie — who died from cancer earlier this year — received four nominations for "Lazarus" and won best art direction. The music video, which shows him looking frail in bed with bandaged eyes, was released just days before the icon's Jan. 10 death. 
 
 Performers included Nick Jonas, The Chainsmokers, Ty Dollar $ign and Ariana Grande, who brought spin class to the VMA stage when she sang the reggae-tinged "Side to Side" with Nicki Minaj. 
 
 In one of several odes to the recent Olympic Games, Michael Phelps said he's been inspired by hip-hop music before introducing Future, who Phelps said he listened to before swimming and making the grimace that went viral. The rapper-singer-producer performed his hit "(Expletive) Up Some Commas." 
 
 Jimmy Fallon, who presented video of the year, dressed as Ryan Lochte and even sported the platinum blonde hair. As Lochte — who is dealing with trouble after filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Rio Olympics — Fallon lied onstage about writing Justin Bieber's "Sorry" and directing the clips nominated for video of the year. 
 
 Other presenters include Alicia Keys, Puff Daddy and four of the Final Five gymnasts (Gabby Douglas was hospitalized for a mouth infection). 
 
 Adele was behind Beyonce with eight nominations, but the British singer did not attend the show and did not win any Moon Men. Beyonce's wins included best female video, pop video, breakthrough long-form video, choreography, direction, cinematography and editing. 
 
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 This story has been corrected to show the name of a Beyonce song in 3rd graf is "Hold Up," not "Holy up." ||||| Well, that was kinda fun. 
 
 And that was definitely fun. — the Gotham pop-rock troupe — up on stage Sunday night at the 55th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, snatching some of the evening’s most coveted prizes, including awards for best new artist and song of the year. 
 
 But for the first time in too long, the Grammys telecast was a good time in and of itself — a refreshingly coherent celebration of our increasingly incoherent popscape. There were A-game performances, trophy-hoarders who deserved to win them and very few reasons to wince, grouse or wish you were watching “Downton Abbey.” 
 
 Along with fun., the evening’s other big winners were Mumford & Sons, the British group whose blustery folk-rock collection “Babel” took home album of the year, and Australian pop singer Gotye, who won record of the year for his inescapable break-up anthem,“Somebody That I Used to Know.” His win came with a bonus shout-out from the little man holding the envelope. “I love this song,” Prince told a rapt audience before announcing the winner, making for some of the most dramatic nano-seconds in Grammy history. 
 
 There were plenty of reasons to keep the volume on your TV cranked. Jack White turned in a ripping performance, Sting and Bruno Mars duetted with surprising vim, R&B singer Miguel introduced himself with velvety assurance, Taylor Swift opened the gig with some sparkle, and a resurgent Justin Timberlake delivered two brand-new, decidedly old-school soul tunes from his forthcoming album. 
 
 J.T. wasn’t up for any awards, but he probably knows that at the Grammys, hardware isn’t always paramount. There are still millions of hearts and minds to win from behind the microphone. The Grammys telecast reinforced that idea, with more than 30 performers but only 11 trophy presentations. 
 
 You still had to win on one front or the other, which made R&B visionary Frank Ocean the evening’s biggest disappointment. His excellent and deserving debut album “Channel Orange” lost best album honors to Mumford & Sons, while his wobbly performance of “Forest Gump” failed to eclipse the quiet intensity he summons so easily in the studio. (He didn’t go home empty-handed. “Channel Orange” won best contemporary urban album, and he shared a Grammy with Jay-Z, Kanye West and The-Dream for best rap/sung collaboration.) 
 
 The Black Keys were victorious on both fronts, romping on the Staples Center stage with Dr. John and winning three gramophone statuettes, including best rock album. (Keys frontman Dan Auerbach took another one home for producer of the year, non-classical). Meantime, fun. split the difference, taking home two awards after serving up a half-throttle rendition of their latest single, “Carry On,” beneath an artificial rainstorm. 
 
 Even soggier: host LL Cool J’s opening monologue. “A Grammy isn’t just a shiny trophy to hold on to,” the rapper-turned-actor declared at the start of the show. “A Grammy is a dream come true.” 
 
 Seventy dreams came true in a jiffy at Sunday’s pre-telecast ceremony at the neighboring Nokia Theatre. The evening’s first big surprise: Bonnie Raitt’s “Slipstream” trumped new and wildly popular albums from Mumford & Sons, the Lumineers and the Avett Brothers for best Americana album. “I was not expecting this!” Raitt gushed from the podium. Nobody was. 
 
 Lead Mumford Marcus Mumford seemed to be enjoying himself more alongside Mavis Staples, Zac Brown and others in a lovely tribute to the late Levon Helm. It followed the traditional “In Memoriam” segment, which included an image of Washington’s own “Godfather of Go-Go,” Chuck Brown, who died last May. 
 
 District rapper Wale’s first Grammy nod didn’t end with a win — his “Lotus Flower Bomb” lost best rap song to Jay-Z and Kanye West — but a few locals made it to the winner’s circle. “Woody at 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection,” a boxed set released on the Smithsonian Folkways label, won best boxed or special limited edition package. And TobyMac, the Fairfax native who got his start in the Christian rap group DC Talk, won for best contemporary Christian music album for his sixth solo studio effort, “Eye On It.” He wasn’t in Los Angeles to accept his award, though. 
 
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 His absence helped keep the show moving. 
 
 After trimming 31 categories last year, the Grammys added three this year: best classical compendium, best Latin jazz album and best urban contemporary album, bringing the total up to 81. 
 
 That made for plenty of artists to root for, along with some very big hits, including the three top-selling and seemingly omnipresent singles of 2012: “Somebody That I Used to Know,” (winner of record of the year); fun.’s “We Are Young” (winner of song of the year); and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” (snubbed!). 
 
 And that reflects how music is selling these days. In 2012, overall music transactions reached a record high at 1.65 billion, but fans are buying music in smaller, cheaper portions. The sale of digital tracks continued to climb, but album sales — the most lucrative way for the record biz to make money — slumped last year, dipping 4 percent, to 316 million. 
 
 2012’s best-selling album? Adele’s “21,” which, in addition to winning album of the year at last year’s Grammys, is the first album to be a back-to-back annual bestseller since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991. 
 
 Adele’s coronation during last year’s Grammy telecast helped boost TV ratings from 26.7 million to nearly 40 million, but most of that spike was attributed to the death of Whitney Houston, who passed away the night before. 
 
 So when Adele won the first award of Sunday night’s Grammy telecast — best pop solo performance for a live version of “Set Fire to the Rain” — it all felt a bit deja vu-ish. She hustled to the podium, quickly said her thank-yous, wished the audience “a wonderful night,” then disappeared to let the future unfold.
– British singer-songwriter Adele is getting tons of acclaim for her second album, 21, which is entirely about one person: the guy who broke her heart. In her honor, New York lists 13 of the most deserving exes famously called out in song: Nick Jonas: In Miley Cyrus’s “7 Things,” she recounts all the teenage-y wrongs he did her, like being vain and liking other girls. John Mayer: Taylor Swift’s “Dear John” is about him, but it didn’t really enact too much vengeance, considering Mayer is probably jazzed Swift penned a song about him. Amber Rose: Kanye West’s “Blame Game,” in which he complains about a lover who, among other things, let her brother buy cocaine with his money, is likely about the model. Anna Gordy: Marvin Gaye’s ex-wife got a whole album named for her—Here, My Dear—after she was awarded a chunk of his royalties in the divorce agreement. But he got the last laugh—the album is considered a landmark. Britney Spears: She cheated, Justin Timberlake wrote “Cry Me a River,” and we all know who won in the end: Timberlake, who is starring in Oscar-nominated movies while Spears is still trying to live down that head-shaving incident. Click for the complete list, or check out more on Adele’s album.