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Ben Rogerson

“Flowers duplicates numerous melodic, harmonic, and lyrical elements of When I Was Your Man”: Miley Cyrus accused of copying Bruno Mars song - but not, apparently, by Bruno Mars

Miley Cyrus.

Miley Cyrus and her co-writers are facing a lawsuit in relation to her 2023 song Flowers, which became one of the biggest hits of the year. It’s alleged that this copies elements of Bruno Mars’ 2013 song, When I Was Your Man.

But there’s a twist: it seems that the legal action is being brought not by Mars himself, but by a company called Tempo Music Investments which, according to The Guardian, claims to own a piece of When I Was Your Man that it purchased from Philip Lawrence, one of the song’s co-writers.

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