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.
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