Miley Cyrus has been slammed with a new lawsuit stating that she and her fellow songwriters plagiarized parts of Bruno Mars’ popular song “When I Was Your Man” when writing her Grammy-winning smash “Flowers.”
A company named Tempo Music Investments stated in a new lawsuit filed on Monday in a federal court in Los Angeles that “Flowers” involves the unapproved “exploitation” of multiple parts of Mars’ 2013 Hot 100-charting song “When I Was Your Man.”
The lawsuit additionally addresses Sony Music Publishing, Apple, Target, Walmart, and several other companies as defendants accused of distributing “Flowers.”
The music label claimed to own a share of the U.S. copyrights to “When I Was Your Man” after purchasing the song from Philip Lawrence, who co-wrote it with Mars. However, Mars is not listed as an accuser in the legal filing.
Cyrus’ song featured “many musical similarities” to Mars’ slow jam track, the company emphasized in the court filing.
“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.
According to reports, the music firm is requesting confidential monetary damages from the court, a prohibition against Cyrus performing “Flowers” and a stop to all further song releases.
The singer of “Wrecking Ball” has not yet released a statement as of this moment in time.#