ALBAWABA - Miley Cyrus was served with a lawsuit alleging that she had plagiarized Bruno Mars's 2012 hit song When I Was Your Man.
According to sources close to the former Hannah Montana actress, who spoke with DailyMail.com exclusively, she isn't worried about the lawsuit per se, but it would be "unsettling" for her to have to admit that the song was about her ex-boyfriend, even if fans thought it was a reaction to his alleged infidelity.
Philip Lawrence—who co-wrote "When I Was Your Man" alongside Mars, Ari Levine, and Andrew Wyatt—sold Tempo Music a part of the copyrights in the United States. Mars does not appear as a plaintiff in the lawsuit.
Miley Cyrus's 'Flowers' couldn't have been as successful as Bruno Mars's 'When I Was Your Man,' as any fan of the Bruno Mars album will tell you. The lawsuit that Rolling Stone obtained asserted that "Flowers" plagiarized "When I Was Your Man" in several ways, including the melodic pitch design and sequence of the verse, the connecting bassline, specific bars of the chorus, elements of theatrical music, lyrics, and chord progressions.
"The combination and number of similarities between the two recordings makes it undeniable that 'Flowers' would not exist without 'When I Was Your Man,'" the lawsuit stated, naming Michael Pollack and Gregory Hein as co-defendants alongside Cyrus. "Flowers" is a work that Cyrus, Hein, and Pollack have made based on 'When I Was Your Man' without permission.
When Rolling Stone asked Cyrus's representatives for comment, they took some time to answer.
From her seventh studio album Endless Summer Vacation came the single "Flowers," which Cyrus received her first Grammy for in February. After her split with actor Liam Hemsworth, Cyrus wrote the smash hit song "Flowers," widely viewed as a proclamation of independence, which remained at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks.
Tempo Music is requesting a court order that would forbid Cyrus and the other defendants from duplicating, distributing, or publicly performing "Flowers," in addition to a sum of damages that will be decided during the trial.
