Miley Cyrus (left) and Bruno Mars | Image: Instagram/@mileycyrus, @brunomars Miley Cyrus is reportedly being sued for copyright infringement after allegations that her chart-topping song “Flowers” is a rip-off of Bruno Mars hit song, “When I Was Your Man.” According to documents obtained by US media TMZ and Rolling Stone , Cyrus faces a lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court from a company called Tempo Music Investments, who claimed “Flowers” includes unauthorized “duplication” of several elements from Mars’ 2012 song. Mars is not named as a plaintiff in the court filing, but the music label asserted that it owns a portion of U.
S. copyrights to “When I Was Your Man” after acquiring it from Philip Lawrence, who co-wrote the song along with Mars. The company underscored in the legal document that Cyrus’ song had “many musical similarities” to Mars’ slow jam track.
“Any fan of Bruno Mars’ ‘When I Was Your Man’ knows that Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ did not achieve all of that success on its own. ‘Flowers’ duplicates numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements of ‘When I Was Your Man,’ including the melodic pitch design and sequence of the verse, the connecting bassline, certain bars of the chorus, certain theatrical music elements, lyric elements, and specific chord progressions,” stated the lawsuit. The music company is said to be seeking undisclosed financial damages and is asking the court to prohibit Cyrus from.