Miley Cyrus Sued Over ‘Flowers,’ Accused of Copying Bruno Mars Song

Miley Cyrus has been hit with a brand new lawsuit alleging she and her fellow songwriters copied parts of a Bruno Mars single after they wrote her Grammy-winning banger “Flowers.”

In a brand new lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court docket, an organization referred to as Tempo Music Investments claimed “Flowers” consists of unauthorized “exploitation” of a number of components of Mars’ 2013 Scorching 100-charting track “Once I Was Your Man.” The go well with additionally names Sony Music Publishing, Apple, Goal, Walmart, and a number of other different firms as defendants accused of distributing “Flowers.”

Tempo Music stated that it owns a portion of U.S. copyrights to “Once I Was Your Man” after buying it from Philip Lawrence, who co-wrote the track together with Mars, Ari Levine, and Andrew Wyatt. Mars isn’t named as a plaintiff within the go well with.

“Any fan of Bruno Mars’ ‘Once I Was Your Man’ is aware of that Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ didn’t obtain all of that success by itself. ‘Flowers’ duplicates quite a few melodic, harmonic, and lyrical components of ‘Once I Was Your Man,’ together with the melodic pitch design and sequence of the verse, the connecting bass-line, sure bars of the refrain, sure theatrical music components, lyric components, and particular chord progressions,” the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone claimed.

“It’s plain based mostly on the mix and variety of similarities between the 2 recordings that ‘Flowers’ wouldn’t exist with out ‘Once I Was Your Man,’” the criticism, which names Cyrus’ fellow songwriters Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack as co-defendants, continued. “With ‘Flowers,’ Cyrus, Hein, and Pollack have created a spinoff work of ‘Once I Was Your Man’ with out authorization.”

Reps for Cyrus didn’t instantly reply to Rolling Stone‘s request for remark.

In February, Cyrus received her first Grammy for “Flowers,” a observe from her eighth album Endless Summer Vacation. The hit track, which held its Quantity One spot on the Billboard Scorching 100 for eight weeks, was written after of her divorce from actor Liam Hemsworth and was largely seen as a declaration of independence.

Tempo Music is in search of damages in an quantity to be decided at trial; it’s also demanding a court docket order prohibiting Cyrus and the opposite defendants from reproducing, distributing, or publicly performing “Flowers.”

From Rolling Stone US.