By Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone | Miley Cyrus has been hit with a new lawsuit alleging she and her fellow songwriters copied portions of a Bruno Mars single when they wrote her Grammy-winning banger “Flowers.”
In a new lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles federal court, a company called Tempo Music Investments claimed “Flowers” includes unauthorized “exploitation” of several elements of Mars’ 2013 Hot 100-charting song “When I Was Your Man.” The suit also names Sony Music Publishing, Apple, Target, Walmart, and several other companies as defendants accused of distributing “Flowers.”
Tempo Music said 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, Ari Levine, and Andrew Wyatt. Mars is not named as a plaintiff in the suit.
“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 bass-line, certain bars of the chorus, certain theatrical music elements, lyric elements, and specific chord progressions,” the lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone claimed.
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