Miley Cyrus is sued for allegedly copying a Bruno Mars song: Explaining the lawsuit

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Miley Cyrus is sued for allegedly copying a Bruno Mars song: Explaining the lawsuit
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Miley Cyrus is facing a new lawsuit that alleges she used song elements from Bruno Mars’ hit “When I Was Your Man' in her song 'Flowers.' Tempo Music Investments, who owns a share of the copyrights, is behind the lawsuit.

Miley Cyrus is facing a potential wrecking ball: a copyright infringement lawsuit regarding her Grammy-winning song, “Flowers.” Cyrus, 31, was sued in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Monday, with a lawsuit accusing her and her fellow “Flowers” songwriters of copying portions of the 2013 Bruno Mars song, “When I Was Your Man.

“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.” Tempo’s attorneys pointed to the harmony and melody of the chorus of both of the songs, which they said were “substantially similar.

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