A lawsuit has hit the Hannah Montana star like a Wrecking Ball. Will she be able to buy herself Flowers after this?
Miley Cyrus has been accused of copying a popular Bruno Mars song for her Grammy-winning hit โFlowers,โ according to a new lawsuit. While a music rights-acquiring platform is coming hard at the songstress with heavy claims, the Silk Sonic singer, a secondary subject of the suit, is conspicuously out of the picture, as he is not listed as a plaintiff in the complaint.
Tempo Music Investments, a company claiming to own a share of Mars’ song’s โ โWhen I Was Your Manโ โ copyright, has sued the former Disney superstar for copyright infringement. Legal documents reportedly point out numerous similarities between โFlowersโ and Brunoโs 2011 track, targetting Cyrus for โintentionally copyingโ it.
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New lawsuit compels Miley Cyrus to stop performing โFlowersโ despite Bruno Mars’ absence
According to TMZ, the incendiary lawsuit against the Wrecking Ball hitmaker asserts that Miley ripped off the melody, harmony and chorus of โWhen I Was Your Man,” and she wouldnโt have secured her Grammy Award earlier this year without Bruno. Tempo Music also claims that Cyrusโ song mirrors chord progressions and lyrics of the decade-old top-charting timeless hit.
โIt is undeniable based on the combination and number of similarities between the two recordings that โFlowersโ would not exist without โWhen I Was Your Man,โโ the agency alleges. What is Tempo Musicโs endgame here? They want Miley to stop performing or distributing โFlowersโ altogether, and are after her money following the unbeatable success of the โEndless Summer Vacationโ album track.
Miley Cyrus’ connection with Bruno Mars’ โWhen I Was Your Manโ goes deep
It is worth noting that dozens of fans jumped at the opportunity to highlight the thematic similarities between Miley and Brunoโs songs in 2023 once her tune hit streaming platforms. Media outlets and netizens speculated that Cyrus had โflippedโ the 2011 song in an attempt to reference her former romance with Liam Hemsworth.
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He reportedly once dedicated โWhen I Was Your Manโ to Miley, and then she dropped the tune on his birthday, indicative of her new era’s commencement.
While Cyrusโ song is quintessentially a breakup anthem empowering self-love, Brunoโs song, penned over a decade agoโ at a time he feared losing his girlfriend Jessica Caban โ voices regrets after a relationship. โFlowersโ apparently samples Marsโ hit track but reworks the lyrics, seemingly taking a dig at her past flame due to โWhen I Was Your Manโ’s purported connections to her former marriage.