Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” was hit with a copyright lawsuit in 2024 of Bruno Mars’ “When I was Your Man” and the judge of the case is unlikely to dismiss the case. Billboard took to the streets to see what the public thinks about the lawsuit. Keep watching to see what they think.
Do you think that Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” is copying Bruno Mars’ song? Let us know in the comments below.
Do you think that Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” is copying Bruno Mars’ song? Let us know in the comments below.
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00:00The whole thing is petty. The whole thing is petty.
00:03It doesn't make sense for anyone to be suing anyone because songs don't even really belong to anyone.
00:14Miley Cyrus is involved in a copyright lawsuit filed over allegations that her Grammy-winning Flowers
00:20infringed the Bruno Mars song, When I Was Your Man. But what do fans think?
00:25I've definitely heard songs that sound more similar than those two do.
00:29I'm singing them both in my head right now and I feel like it's not like a Taylor Swift-Olivia Rodrigo situation.
00:35I wish that was the first thing.
00:36And where does the case stand now? We're breaking it down.
00:39Maybe I think she just really likes this song.
00:51Uh, I think it's hard to determine.
00:54At a recent hearing in Los Angeles, a federal judge looks unlikely to immediately dismiss the lawsuit accusing Cyrus.
01:00In her first response back in November, attorneys for Miley said that the total lack of involvement from Bruno himself
01:06and two of the song's other co-writers required the outright dismissal of the lawsuit.
01:11It's easy to say, like, oh, they're being bitter, but my dad's a songwriter, so I definitely understand.
01:18Like, if they want to fight it out, they deserve the chance to, I guess.
01:22Because, like, they worked really hard on it. Bruno Mars can go from this to this to that.
01:26But if you're a songwriter, like, you don't know when your next thing is.
01:29No, because it's a response.
01:32It's sometimes media, one thing affects another, or in songwriting, there's one thing comes out, another one is a response.
01:40I think, like, nowadays people get a lot of, like, ideas from other artists, so it's hard to say.
01:46When Flowers was first released, legal experts told Billboard that Cyrus was likely not violating copyrights
01:52simply by using similar lyrics to fire back at the earlier song.
01:56But Tempo Music sued in September, claiming Flowers had lifted numerous elements beyond the clapback lyrics,
02:02including melodic and harmonic material.
02:05I'm also surprised because they're both so, like, Bruno Mars, everything he puts out is a smash hit,
02:10and Miley had a smash hit, so why the hit-on-hit crime? I don't really get that.
02:15You can continue to follow the story with Billboard on YouTube.