A new lawsuit has been filed accusing Miley Cyrus and her fellow songwriters of copying parts of a Bruno Mars single when they wrote her Grammy-winning banger “Flowers.”
In a new lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court, Tempo Music Investments claims “Flowers” includes unauthorized “exploitation” of several elements of Mars’ 2013 Hot 100-charting song “When I Was Your Man.” The lawsuit names Sony Music Publishing, Apple, Target, Walmart and several other companies as defendants accused of distributing the “flowers.”
Tempo Music owns part of the US copyright for “When I Was Your Man” after purchasing it from Philip Lawrence, who co-wrote the song with Mars, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt. Tuesday was not named as a plaintiff in the suit.
“As any fan of Bruno Mars’ ‘When I Was Your Man’ knows, Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ did not achieve that success on its own. ‘Flowers’ copies many of the melodic, musical and lyrical elements of ‘When I Was Your Man’, including the melodic pitch design and verse sequence. , includes a connecting bass-line, a few bars of the chorus, some dramatic musical elements, lyrical elements, and specific chord progressions,” derived from the case Rolling Stone requested.
“It’s undeniable that ‘Flowers’ wouldn’t be the same as ‘When I Was Your Man’ based on the number of similarities between the two records,” the complaint co-named Cyrus’ co-songwriters Gregory Hein and Michael Pollock. Defendants, continued. With “Flowers”, Cyrus, Hayne and Pollock created a derivative work of ‘When I Was Your Man’ without credit.
Representatives for Cyrus did not immediately respond Rolling StoneA request for comment.
In February, Cyrus won her first Grammy Award for the song “Flowers” from her eighth album Endless summer vacation. The hit song, which spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, was written after her divorce from actor Liam Hemsworth and was often seen as a declaration of independence.
Tempo Music seeks compensation in an amount to be determined at trial; It also seeks a court order prohibiting Cyrus and the other defendants from reproducing, distributing or publicly performing “flowers.”
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