Miley Cyrus Sues 'Flowers' For Copying Bruno Mars Song

Miley Cyrus is the victim of a new lawsuit alleging that she and her fellow songwriters copied parts of a Bruno Mars single when they wrote his Grammy-winning banger “Flowers.”

In a new lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles, a company called Tempo Music Investments claims that “Full” 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 for allegedly distributing “flowers.”

Tempo Music said it owns a portion of the US copyright to “When I Was Your Man” after acquiring it from Philip Lawrence, who co-wrote the song with Mars, Ari Levine and Andrew Watt. Mangal is not named as a plaintiff in the case.

“Any fan of Bruno Mars' 'When I Was Your Man' knows that Miley Cyrus' 'Flowers' didn't achieve all that success on its own. 'Flowers' mimics numerous melodic, melodic and lyrical elements of 'When I Was Your Man.' , including melodic pitch designs and verse sequences, connecting bass-lines, specific bars of the chorus, some theatrical musical elements, lyrical elements, and specific chord progressions,” the case obtained by The Rolling Stones claimed

“It is undeniable that based on the number of similarities and similarities between the two recordings that 'Flowers' would not exist without 'When I Was Your Man,'” the complaint, which names Cyrus' fellow songwriters Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack as defendants, continued. . “With Flowers, Cyrus, Heine and Pollack created a derivative work of 'When I Was Your Man' without authorization.”

Representatives for Cyrus did not immediately respond The Rolling StonesRequest for comments.

In February, Cyrus won her first Grammy for “Flowers,” a track from her eighth album. Endless summer vacation. The hit song, which held her number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks, was written after her divorce from actor Liam Hemsworth and was originally seen as a declaration of independence.

Tempo Music is seeking damages in amounts determined at trial; It is also seeking a court order to prohibit Cyrus and the other defendants from reproducing, distributing or publicly displaying “Flower.”