The lawsuit, filed by Tempo Music Investments, claims her song features an unauthorized “exploitation” of components from Mars’ 2013 track
Miley Cyrus has been sued over her hit song, “Flowers.” The singer is accused of copying Bruno Mars’ 2013 track “When I Was Your Man,” according to a lawsuit obtained by TheWrap.
The suit, which was filed on Monday in California’s Central District Court by Tempo Music Investments, alleges that her song includes unauthorized “exploitation” of musical components from Mars’ track that she ripped off with songwriters Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack.
Tempo states that it owns some of “When I Was Your Man” through an agreement with the song’s co-writer Philip Lawrence. Other defendants listed include Sony Music Publishing, Tidal Music, Walmart and Disney, among other distributers. In addition to Lawrence, the song was also written by Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt, though they and Mars are not named in the document.
Specifically, the lawsuit states “Flowers” duplicates “the basic melodic and harmonic design of E-D-C-E-F at the end of Unit 1 in ‘When I Was Your Man.
