Judgment a Miley Cyrus By plagiarism it is getting closer. The American artist asked last November to dismiss the demand of Tempo Music Investments, which accuses her of copying parts of a Bruno Mars theme in her most successful song, ‘Flowers’but a judge has denied his request and the litigation will continue.
The lawsuit, presented in mid -September before a federal court in Los Angeles, says that ‘Flowers’ includes an “unauthorized exploitation of several elements” of the song ‘When I was your man’ that Bruno Mars published in 2012. “Any fan of ‘When I was your man’ by Bruno Mars knows that Miley Cyrus did not achieve all that success in itself. ‘Flowers’ Duplicate numerous melodic elementsharmonics and lyric of ‘When I was your man’, including the melodic tone design and the stanza sequence, the low line that connects, certain stages of the chorus, certain theatrical musical elements, lyrical elements and progressions of specific chords, ”says the company that owns the Mars catalog.
‘Flowers’ earned Miley Cyrus The first two Grammy Awards of his career (Best solo pop performance and best recording of the year), and is composed of it and two other co -authors, Gregory Aldae Hein and Michael Ross Pollack. With eight consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard list, it is the artist’s most successful song: in Spotify it exceeds 2,470 million views (the second on the list, ‘Party in the USA’, is at 1,824 million), so if you lose a plagiarism, you would have to pay an exorbitant amount as compensation.
Bruno Mars does not appear as a plaintiff, but Tempo Music argues that “it is undeniable, based on the combination and the amount of similarities between the two recordings, that ‘flowers’ would not exist without ‘When I was Your Man'”, and accuses Cyrus and the composers Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack having created a work derived from ‘What Man’ without authorization ». Tempo Music, who has a part of the copyright in the United States of ‘When I was your man’ after acquiring her from Philip Lawrence, who co -written the song along with Mars, Ari Levine and Andrew Wyatt, He also quotes Sony Music Publishing, Apple, Target and Walmart in the demandamong other companies, as accused of distributing ‘flowers’.
The request of Cyrus’s lawyers so that the demand is dismissed alleges that Tempo could not denounce them “because they were made with the rights of ‘when i was your man’ without any consent by the other composers of the subject.” But the judge does not agree and ensures that this interpretation is “incorrect” and believes that Tempo, as the owner, although not exclusive to the subject, does have rights over it: “Tempo is the exclusive co -owner of the exclusive copyright. Since Lawrence, as a co -owner, could sue for infraction, tempo as co -owner, instead of Lawrence, can sue by infraction without joining the other co -students of copyright ».
According to the magazine ‘Variety’, Tempo Music Investments has celebrated the decision that the case will continue. “We are delighted, but at all surprised by the sentence,” said lawyer Alex Weingarten. “Our client is looking forward to this case to be resolved in their merits and are extremely confident in prevailing.”
The resemblance between both compositions was already commented on social networks when in January 2023 ‘flowers’ was published, which was even interpreted by many as a song of response to ‘When I was your man’, which as Miley Cyrus herself told, it was an issue that used to put the actor Liam Hemsworthwho divorced after a complicated relationship.
The letter of ‘When I was your man’ says: “Too silly to understand that you should have bought flowers / hold your hand, give you the time you needed / take you to all the holidays because what you wanted was to dance.” And ‘Flowers’ says: “I can buy flowers to myself / write my name in the sand / talk to myself for hours / say things that you will never understand / I can get to dance / I can hold my own hand.”
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