Matt Connarton Unleashed: Bruno Mars vs. Miley Cyrus

0:00 Speaker 1: Something else I wanted to talk about. And this has

0:02 Speaker 1: been going on for I don't know, a couple of

0:05 Speaker 1: years now, I guess, but you know, we do like

0:07 Speaker 1: to talk about these things that are going on in

0:09 Speaker 1: the music industry. Sometimes there is controversy and lawsuits and

0:13 Speaker 1: things like that. We talk a lot about AI and

0:15 Speaker 1: the effects of AI on music. But here's but this

0:19 Speaker 1: also kind of relates to a subject that comes up

0:22 Speaker 1: not only on this program, this particular news item, but

0:27 Speaker 1: also that comes up on retro Spectrum Radio with Polly C.

0:31 Speaker 1: Of course, if you don't know, I'm also Paully C's

0:34 Speaker 1: co host on Friday nights on retro Spectrum Radio here

0:37 Speaker 1: at WM and H. And we've done a number of

0:40 Speaker 1: shows now that Paul is put together on that show

0:44 Speaker 1: where we talk about plagiarism and artists suing other artists

0:49 Speaker 1: for plagiarism. In fact, we've done a couple of episodes

0:54 Speaker 1: entirely dedicated to led Zeppelin, the most plagiaristic Don't get

0:57 Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm a fan, but the most plagiarism stick

1:00 Speaker 1: band and music history. They've they even stole a song.

1:03 Speaker 1: Not only did they steal from a lot of blues artists.

1:05 Speaker 1: They even stole a song from Joan Bias. Yeah, it's wild.

1:09 Speaker 1: So you know, you can go back and check those out.

1:11 Speaker 1: And by the way, so when we're on when we

1:14 Speaker 1: do these shows on Retrospectrum Radio, you know, we'll we'll

1:17 Speaker 1: all kind of put our two cents in. Okay, is

1:19 Speaker 1: this a plagiarism or or is this someone making a

1:24 Speaker 1: false accusation? Is this particular song not plagiarized?

1:28 Speaker 2: You know?

1:28 Speaker 1: And I'm I'm the most lenient when it comes to that.

1:32 Speaker 1: I'm usually the first one to say not guilty. I

1:35 Speaker 1: don't think this particular instance is an act of plagiarism

1:38 Speaker 1: because I just I look at it as there are

1:42 Speaker 1: certain certain chord progressions that are just very common throughout

1:47 Speaker 1: pop music, and certain lyrical themes of course, and lyrical

1:52 Speaker 1: themes is gonna that's gonna play a part in what

1:55 Speaker 1: we're about to talk about this particular lawsuit and controversy.

1:58 Speaker 1: Certain lyrical themes that are very common, and you know, so,

2:02 Speaker 1: so I'm the least likely to say guilty, I think

2:06 Speaker 1: that this person committed plagiarism. I mean, there's some instances

2:09 Speaker 1: that are just undeniable, like like when Led Zeppelin stole

2:12 Speaker 1: all that music from those old blues artists, which they

2:16 Speaker 1: have been sued for in some instances successfully, in some

2:19 Speaker 1: instances not so much. But h but this one, the

2:24 Speaker 1: particular one, and this one we have not talked about

2:26 Speaker 1: on Retrospectrum Radio because this is something recent and we

2:30 Speaker 1: wouldn't on that show. We wouldn't talk about something as

2:32 Speaker 1: recent as this. But some of you may have heard,

2:34 Speaker 1: of course about the Miley cyrus Her song Flowers being

2:39 Speaker 1: sued by not actually by Bruno Mars directly, but by

2:43 Speaker 1: people who own a stake in the Bruno Mars song

2:46 Speaker 1: When I Was Your Man. And this one, this particular

2:50 Speaker 1: instance of someone claiming copyright infringement, this particular one drives

2:56 Speaker 1: me nuts. This one is really a reach, in my opinion.

3:01 Speaker 1: What do you what do you think, Jenny, do do

3:02 Speaker 1: you think this one's Yeah, this one, this one's a stretch.

3:06 Speaker 1: So this is frivolous, now, Jenny, Jenny found something that

3:10 Speaker 1: will give us an update on what's going on with this.

3:12 Speaker 1: But for those who don't know about this, yeah, this

3:16 Speaker 1: is frivolous, all right. So this is I've got an

3:18 Speaker 1: article here from Forbes that I think is the best

3:20 Speaker 1: explainer of what the initial lawsuit is about. Miley Cyrus

3:25 Speaker 1: tries uh tries getting suit that claims Flowers copied a

3:30 Speaker 1: Bruno Mars song dismissed. So this article is from last year,

3:35 Speaker 1: but it uh, and there have been multiple attempts, by

3:38 Speaker 1: the way to get this lawsuit thrown out. And I

3:39 Speaker 1: think it should be thrown out because I think it's ridiculous.

3:42 Speaker 1: But uh, you know, and I'm not you know, I

3:45 Speaker 1: don't have any personal stake in this, by the way.

3:47 Speaker 1: I'm not particularly a fan of either artist. I I

3:50 Speaker 1: respect them both tremendously. Of course. Miley Cyrus is an

3:53 Speaker 1: incredible singer and I certainly and Bruno Mars, you know,

3:57 Speaker 1: I respect as a singer and a songwriter and whatnot.

3:59 Speaker 1: I'm just neither of them have really put out anything

4:01 Speaker 1: that I personally am that into, but I do. Uh,

4:06 Speaker 1: but I respect them, of course. But here's so this

4:09 Speaker 1: is the explainer from Forbes Okay. Attorneys representing singer Miley

4:13 Speaker 1: Cyrus filed the motion in LA federal court to dismiss

4:15 Speaker 1: a lawsuit claiming that her song Flowers lifts lyrics and

4:20 Speaker 1: melodies from the twenty thirteen Bruno Mars song When I

4:23 Speaker 1: Was Your Man, arguing the lawsuit should be tossed because

4:26 Speaker 1: it only represents one of the songs for writers and

4:29 Speaker 1: not Bruno Mars himself, So it's not Bruno Mars. Bruno

4:33 Speaker 1: Mars is not the one bringing the lawsuit himself, but

4:38 Speaker 1: it involves his song when I Was Your Man. When

4:41 Speaker 1: I Was Your Man? Is that what it's called? Anyway,

4:43 Speaker 1: I'm so not a fan of I don't like the

4:46 Speaker 1: song to begin with when.

4:49 Speaker 2: I Was Your Man.

4:49 Speaker 1: Yet, I don't like the song to begin with but anyway,

4:51 Speaker 1: So here are some key facts. Cyrus's attorneys argue the

4:55 Speaker 1: company that filed the lawsuit, Tempo Music Investments and Investment Group,

4:59 Speaker 1: that it has acquired the rights to various artists catalogs,

5:02 Speaker 1: does not have standing to sue because it only owns

5:05 Speaker 1: a portion of the rights to the song. Temple Music

5:08 Speaker 1: previously acquired the rights to songwriter Philip Lawrence's catalog, so

5:13 Speaker 1: he's one of the writers of the song. Cyrus's attorneys

5:17 Speaker 1: say the Copyright Act only permits quote a legal or

5:21 Speaker 1: beneficial owner of an exclusive copyright unquote to sue for infringement. So,

5:25 Speaker 1: in other words, they're saying that the people bringing the lawsuit,

5:29 Speaker 1: they have not been harmed in any way, this doesn't

5:31 Speaker 1: affect them, and so forth. I'm kind of skipping through

5:35 Speaker 1: this because I want to get to the part where

5:37 Speaker 1: it explains why the suit itself is silly. Okay, So,

5:41 Speaker 1: Cyrus's attorneys claim the two songs have quote striking differences

5:47 Speaker 1: in melody, chords, other musical elements and words unquote, stating

5:51 Speaker 1: the plaintiff's claim the songs share quote musical building blocks unquote,

5:57 Speaker 1: including some chords and pitches, would not be protected by

6:01 Speaker 1: copyright law. So, in other words, my ree, Cyrus's lawyers

6:05 Speaker 1: are saying the two songs are really different. So you know, again,

6:13 Speaker 1: it's a reach. To suggest that there's a claim here

6:17 Speaker 1: of any kind is really a stretch, and we'll get

6:20 Speaker 1: into a little bit more of that in a moment,

6:23 Speaker 1: but okay. Forbes has reached out to Cyrus's lawyers and

6:29 Speaker 1: Tempo Music Investments for comment. Tempo Music Investments sued Cyrus,

6:34 Speaker 1: as well as companies that says distributed the song Flowers,

6:38 Speaker 1: including Sony Music, Apple, Target, and Walmart, alleging copyright infringement.

6:44 Speaker 1: The lawsuit alleged the song Flowers would not exist without

6:49 Speaker 1: the exploitation of Mars's song. Quote. Any fan of Bruno

6:56 Speaker 1: Mars's song When I Was Your Man knows that my

6:59 Speaker 1: resse Virus's Flowers did not achieve all of that success

7:04 Speaker 1: on its own unquote. The lawsuit states alleging that Flowers

7:09 Speaker 1: lifts quote numerous melodic, harmonic and lyrical elements of When

7:14 Speaker 1: I Was Your Man unquote. So here's the heart of

7:18 Speaker 1: the matter. The chorus of Flowers does appear to lift

7:23 Speaker 1: some of these statements. In the chorus of When I

7:26 Speaker 1: Was Your Man. In Flowers and Ode to Independence, Cyrus sings, quote,

7:32 Speaker 1: I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand,

7:36 Speaker 1: talk to myself for hours, say things you don't understand.

7:41 Speaker 1: I can take myself dancing. I can hold my own

7:44 Speaker 1: hand unquote. In the Bruno Mars song about a man

7:47 Speaker 1: expressing regret for failing to treat his lover well, he sings, quote,

7:52 Speaker 1: I should have bought you flowers and held your hand,

7:55 Speaker 1: should have gave you all my hours when I had

7:58 Speaker 1: the chance, take you you to every party, because all

8:02 Speaker 1: you wanted to do was dance. Unquote. Now let me

8:07 Speaker 1: just stop here for a moment. Obviously, yes, the song,

8:14 Speaker 1: the lyrics of the song that I mean, you could

8:18 Speaker 1: make this argument. The lyrics of the song Flowers by

8:22 Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus do seem to be what I would say,

8:26 Speaker 1: And we talked about this in the car. It's a

8:28 Speaker 1: direct response to the Bruno Mars song. Yes, that's not

8:34 Speaker 1: copyright infringement. That is referencing somebody else's creative work, referring

8:39 Speaker 1: to it. That's not the same thing as lifting elements

8:42 Speaker 1: from it.

8:43 Speaker 3: If this is allowed to if this case prevails, it

8:49 Speaker 3: changes everything. You can't talk about anybody anymore. You can't

8:53 Speaker 3: say anybody else's name.

8:55 Speaker 1: Maybe you can't write, Maybe you can't write songs about

8:57 Speaker 1: flowers because because Bruno Mars had a song that mentioned flowers.

9:03 Speaker 3: Artists mentioned each other in songs all the time, you know,

9:07 Speaker 3: and play off of each other, sometimes.

9:09 Speaker 4: Good, sometimes bad.

9:11 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's you know, like there's tons of other rappers.

9:14 Speaker 1: Well yeah, of course, so all.

9:16 Speaker 3: Rappers will get dude who listed another rapper in their song,

9:19 Speaker 3: because that happens a lot.

9:20 Speaker 1: There's tons of examples of this in pop history. You know,

9:23 Speaker 1: I don't think you know when when Leonard Skinnard mentions

9:28 Speaker 1: in Sweet Home, Alabama, you know, I hope Neil Neil

9:30 Speaker 1: Young will remember the Southern Man. Don't need him around anyhow,

9:34 Speaker 1: you know, A direct response to Neil Young song Southern Man,

9:37 Speaker 1: Neil Young didn't sue them, say, oh, they they referenced

9:40 Speaker 1: my song, I'm gonna sue them, you know, I mean.

9:42 Speaker 1: And that was a very direct response. That was that

9:45 Speaker 1: was clear and unambiguous. Granted it was a they had

9:48 Speaker 1: a rivalry, but it was a friendly rivalry that there

9:51 Speaker 1: was a lot of mutual respect. But but but but

9:54 Speaker 1: but that's or or when uh in Surrender, when uh

9:58 Speaker 1: a cheap trick? They actually mentioned and kiss my name,

10:02 Speaker 1: you know in the song surrender.

10:04 Speaker 3: Well, like we were talking in the car. Tori Amos

10:08 Speaker 3: and Trent Wesner have referenced each other in various ways

10:12 Speaker 3: in seeing each other's song lyrics and for topics. There's

10:15 Speaker 3: a one of Tory's songs mentions nine inch nails. But

10:19 Speaker 3: it's it's it's in, it's in reverence of one another.

10:24 Speaker 3: It's not even it's nothing bad. But one of the

10:26 Speaker 3: caveats about this case that I want to point out

10:28 Speaker 3: is that the person that is suing bought this half

10:34 Speaker 3: of the song as part of a catalog package. They

10:37 Speaker 3: weren't even in the picture when the song was created.

10:40 Speaker 3: They had nothing to do with it, zero to do it. Well,

10:44 Speaker 3: they're not a co writer, nobody.

10:47 Speaker 4: They bought the.

10:48 Speaker 3: Catalog, so now they own half the rights of this

10:51 Speaker 3: song and they're looking for a quick, get rich quick scheme.

10:56 Speaker 4: It's scammy use of the chords.

10:58 Speaker 3: It's totally frivolous, and it should be thrown out with prejudice.

11:02 Speaker 4: In my opinion, I thought that's not what happened.

11:05 Speaker 1: Yeah, it also says here. Cyrus released Flowers in January

11:10 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and it became one of the year's

11:11 Speaker 1: biggest hits. Flowers has been streamed more than two billion

11:15 Speaker 1: times on Spotify and won Cyrus two Grammy Awards for

11:18 Speaker 1: Record of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. When

11:21 Speaker 1: Cyrus released Flowers, fans noticed the similarities between the two songs,

11:25 Speaker 1: even causing When I Was Your Man to rise in streams.

11:30 Speaker 1: Billboard reported, so it made.

11:32 Speaker 4: The money made the song more.

11:33 Speaker 1: So that actually made the song more. It made the

11:35 Speaker 1: song it refers to more pop. And When I Was

11:38 Speaker 1: Your Man was already a huge hit. I just know

11:41 Speaker 1: that because I just remember hearing it a lot. But yeah,

11:44 Speaker 1: so it actually helped. It actually helped give When I

11:47 Speaker 1: Was Your Man a boost. So so again it's it's this,

11:54 Speaker 1: you know, this is all very silly. Let's see bill okay,

12:00 Speaker 1: Vanderbilt Law School again. This is from the Forbes article

12:04 Speaker 1: Vanderbilt Law School music law professor Joseph Fishman told Billboard

12:09 Speaker 1: Cyrus should not need to credit Mars and the other

12:12 Speaker 1: When I Was Your Man's songwriters, despite the similar lyrics.

12:16 Speaker 1: Even if the chorus of Flowers is deliberately a response

12:19 Speaker 1: to Mars's song because it does not appear to sample

12:23 Speaker 1: or interpolate the song's melodies. Quote, using one song to

12:27 Speaker 1: issue a retort to an earlier song is not, by

12:31 Speaker 1: itself infringement. John Mayer and Taylor Swift don't need to

12:35 Speaker 1: cross license everything when they write songs at each other.

12:39 Speaker 1: When I Was Your Man peaked at number one on

12:43 Speaker 1: the Billboard Hot one hundred and twenty thirteen and earned

12:46 Speaker 1: Mars a Grammy nomination. So that's that's where we are with.

12:56 Speaker 1: So that's what the suit is over. And by the way,

12:58 Speaker 1: so the songs them said, E don't sound anything alike.

13:03 Speaker 1: I will just pull up you know what, I'll play

13:07 Speaker 1: each of these just like to the chorus so you

13:10 Speaker 1: can hear. Oh maybe I can even find well, sorry,

13:13 Speaker 1: let me turn your mic back on. What's that?

13:15 Speaker 3: They're not similar, No, they're not similar. The only similarity

13:19 Speaker 3: is the mutual reference.

13:22 Speaker 5: You know.

13:22 Speaker 3: He's singing, I'm gonna buy I should have bought you flowers.

13:25 Speaker 3: She's singing, I can buy myself flowers. It's just a

13:28 Speaker 3: woman's response. Yeah, and I think it's a great response.

13:32 Speaker 3: I think it's a great song. Yeah, in that regard,

13:37 Speaker 3: In that regard, right, does it matter? But this lawsuit

13:42 Speaker 3: is just somebody trying to get which quick oh yeah,

13:46 Speaker 3: off of other people's work.

13:48 Speaker 1: I found something here on YouTube that kind of compares

13:51 Speaker 1: that kind of compares them. Let's let me play this

13:54 Speaker 1: just for for anyone who uh, you know, if you

13:56 Speaker 1: don't know the songs, and then you can make your

13:58 Speaker 1: own judgment here. But this is this is short, but

14:01 Speaker 1: it's a short dot comparison.

14:06 Speaker 5: To your two time to realize we were good.

14:12 Speaker 2: We were god kind of dream that can't be.

14:17 Speaker 5: So we were right until we won't build a home

14:24 Speaker 5: and wash it burns. I should have brought your flowers.

14:30 Speaker 5: Lugging Bomas and flowers, run my name and sing dreams

14:41 Speaker 5: should a gig a armor hours with the head versha

14:47 Speaker 5: and I can hold money, I can love me better.

14:55 Speaker 5: You can't let me take care of everybody because all

14:59 Speaker 5: you I wanted to do us to.

15:03 Speaker 2: I can take myself Patsy again, but she's dear soon

15:09 Speaker 2: with another move. Why do you want to leave you?

15:16 Speaker 2: I didn't want to lie side God.

15:19 Speaker 5: Then remember I Yeah, I can love me bitter.

15:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, I can love me bitter you cat baby.

15:49 Speaker 1: Okay, So there you go. There's a comparison, a side

15:52 Speaker 1: by side, the comparison to some of the parts of

15:54 Speaker 1: each song. Yeah, completely different. I mean again, one is

15:58 Speaker 1: referencing the other, but they're they're very different. They're they're

16:01 Speaker 1: different in vibe and style.

16:03 Speaker 3: If you can sue from a reference like that, then

16:06 Speaker 3: everything about music changes in every genre.

16:10 Speaker 4: Well, it's like it's it's just too much.

16:12 Speaker 1: Well, it's like the the Well you have.

16:14 Speaker 3: A sentence like that's similar to my sentence, So now

16:17 Speaker 3: I can sue you.

16:18 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's uh. And again you could say the melodies.

16:23 Speaker 1: The melodies are vaguely similar, but again there are certain

16:29 Speaker 1: there are just certain chord progressions and melodies as well

16:34 Speaker 1: as lyrical themes that are just they're really common. And

16:38 Speaker 1: you know a great example of that. And and Tom Petty,

16:42 Speaker 1: I think, had the right attitude about this. If you're

16:44 Speaker 1: you know the song Danny California by the Chili Peppers,

16:47 Speaker 1: not Chili Peppers, that's my favorite Chili Pepper song. I

16:49 Speaker 1: always love that song. But when that song came out,

16:52 Speaker 1: people notice something about it. The not in the verses,

16:57 Speaker 1: but the chorus is exactly the same as Last Dance

17:03 Speaker 1: with Mary Jane. Oh no, I'm sorry, not the chorus,

17:05 Speaker 1: the verses, I have it backward. The verses are the

17:08 Speaker 1: same as Last Dance with Mary Jane by Tom Petty. Yeah,

17:12 Speaker 1: see exact same chord progression. It's even the same tempo,

17:15 Speaker 1: Like you could graft one on to the other. It's

17:16 Speaker 1: exactly the same. And somebody asked Tom Petty in an

17:22 Speaker 1: interview some I think it was a radio DJ asked him,

17:27 Speaker 1: or might have been in Rolling Stone, But somebody asked

17:28 Speaker 1: him because people were noticing this. You know, are you

17:32 Speaker 1: are you upset with the Chili Peppers? I don't know

17:35 Speaker 1: you Are you gonna sue them for stealing your song

17:38 Speaker 1: or something like that? And he said his response, which

17:41 Speaker 1: I thought was perfect, he said, well, if they stole it,

17:44 Speaker 1: they didn't steal it from me, they stole it from

17:46 Speaker 1: who from whoever I stole it from, because that chord

17:50 Speaker 1: progression is just very common. It's it's not it's not

17:54 Speaker 1: an original chord, you know. He's like, I didn't write

17:56 Speaker 1: that chord progression. Somebody somebody did. I don't know who,

17:59 Speaker 1: but I it somewhere. Well, yeah, and he was right.

18:03 Speaker 1: He was right to say that it's a very common

18:05 Speaker 1: chord progression. So that so he had the right attitude

18:10 Speaker 1: about it. But what I'm also thinking about, too is

18:15 Speaker 1: who's the guy, oh, I forget his name now, British

18:17 Speaker 1: guy with red hair. He's got a bunch of hits

18:19 Speaker 1: ed Oh ed Sharon when they tried to sue ed

18:22 Speaker 1: Sharon claiming, what's the name of that song I'll Be

18:26 Speaker 1: Loving You? I don't know the actual name is there,

18:30 Speaker 1: I'll be Loving You when we're seventy or something, And

18:33 Speaker 1: I hate that song. But but they tried to sue

18:36 Speaker 1: him saying that because it had a similar vibe to

18:39 Speaker 1: Let's Get It On by Marvin Gay. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

18:43 Speaker 1: it was a you know, in terms of the production

18:46 Speaker 1: of the song. It sounded similar to let's get it

18:48 Speaker 1: on and but he's been sued a few times too,

18:52 Speaker 1: and he never backs down to his credit, you know,

18:54 Speaker 1: he never settles, because again that's a that's another example

18:58 Speaker 1: of a very frivolous lie. It's like, okay, you can

19:01 Speaker 1: sue somebody because the vibe of the production style of

19:06 Speaker 1: their song is similar. Wow, like that the can of

19:11 Speaker 1: worms that would open up. So it's not right they

19:19 Speaker 1: walk away with money. Yeah, So so it's not right.

19:24 Speaker 1: By the way, I think, while we're at it, I

19:27 Speaker 1: think it would be interesting. I want to see, just

19:29 Speaker 1: quickly example of examples of songs that reference other songs,

19:37 Speaker 1: because again, what we're talking about with the Bruno Mars

19:41 Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus thing is you know, we gave some examples before,

19:46 Speaker 1: like a Cheap Trick referencing Kiss or Leonard skinnerd referencing

19:50 Speaker 1: Neil Young. Let's see, I just did a quick search.

19:55 Speaker 1: So here's some more examples. Uh, It's My Life by

19:58 Speaker 1: bon Jovie references for Rank Sinatra is My Way, Yes, absolutely,

20:03 Speaker 1: thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen mentions Roy Orbison, Come Together

20:08 Speaker 1: by The Beatles uses lyrics from Chuck berrys you Can't

20:12 Speaker 1: Catch Me. There's some artists here who are more obscure,

20:17 Speaker 1: like Nick Lowe. I mean, you know people who are

20:19 Speaker 1: really into indie music. No, Nick Lowe. He has a

20:22 Speaker 1: song called All Men Are Liars, which apparently directly references

20:27 Speaker 1: Rick Astley's Never Going to Give You Up. That one's

20:29 Speaker 1: kind of interesting. That's fun Yeah, that is funny. That

20:34 Speaker 1: is funny. But yeah, so I hope. So the latest

20:37 Speaker 1: on that you had the story? The update, There was

20:42 Speaker 1: an update from just a few days ago. Let me

20:44 Speaker 1: see if I can.

20:45 Speaker 4: Yeah, the basic gist of it is.

20:47 Speaker 1: That they're still trying to get it thrown out.

20:49 Speaker 3: Well they had tried, Yes, they were trying to get

20:51 Speaker 3: it thrown out, but it was denied.

20:54 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was trying to get a toss. It was denied.

20:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's from Fox Business. This judge denies Miley Cyrus's

21:02 Speaker 1: attempt to dismiss lawsuit comparing Flowers to Bruno Mars song.

21:04 Speaker 1: Temple Music and Miley Cyrus in September sued Miley Cyrus

21:08 Speaker 1: in September for similarities between the songs. Says here. A

21:11 Speaker 1: judge denied Cyrus's attempt to throw out copyright lawsuit against

21:15 Speaker 1: a pop star. Temple Music Investments lawsuit against Cyrus alleging

21:20 Speaker 1: similarities between her Grammy winning song Flowers and Bruno mars

21:24 Speaker 1: Is when I was her man will move forward after

21:26 Speaker 1: Judge Dan D. Pregeran Pregerson rather denied her requests. Tuesday,

21:32 Speaker 1: Fox Business can confirm Tempo Music acquired the rights to

21:35 Speaker 1: the song after buying the catalog of Philip Lawrence, a

21:38 Speaker 1: co author of the song. By the way, Yeah, and

21:42 Speaker 1: it just goes on. Basically this this dismissal failed, but

21:47 Speaker 1: we're in agreement. I think right that this this lawsuit

21:50 Speaker 1: is silly and schemes, so frivolous lawsuit should be dismissed.

21:56 Speaker 4: Should be totally dismissed with prejudice.

21:59 Speaker 1: We will keep an eye on it going forward.