In 2023, Miley Cyrus had a huge chart-topping, Grammy-winning comeback hit with “Flowers,” a song that essentially seemed structured as an answer to Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man,” another big hit from a decade earlier. In 2024, Cyrus was sued over the similarity between the two songs — not by Bruno Mars but by Tempo Music Investments, a company that acquired the songwriting catalog of Mars’ collaborator Philip Lawrence. Cyrus tried to get the lawsuit dismissed back then, and her motion was denied. The case remains ongoing, and Cyrus’ lawyers are now making the argument that nobody can own “commonplace tropes in breakup songs.”

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