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Miley Cyrus has found herself at the centre of a bizarre infringement lawsuit linked to a track released four years before she was born.
Jamaican dancehall artist Michael May, aka Flourgon, claims the pop star's 2013 hit We Can't Stop was heavily inspired by his song We Run Things, which was released in 1988.
Miley Cyrus has found herself at the centre of a bizarre infringement lawsuit linked to a track released four years before she was born.
Jamaican dancehall artist Michael May, aka Flourgon, claims the pop star's 2013 hit We Can't Stop was heavily inspired by his song We Run Things, which was released in 1988.
© AP Miley Cyrus performs onstage at the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute honoring Fleetwood Mac at the Radio City Music Hall on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 in New York.
In court documents, Flourgon has accused Miley of stealing his "unique and creative lyrical phraseology" in order to "establish an overarching and pervasive theme... in the realm of self-
In court documents, Flourgon has accused Miley of stealing his "unique and creative lyrical phraseology" in order to "establish an overarching and pervasive theme... in the realm of self-
discovery and self-governings".
© Getty Flourgon in 1989
Flourgon, who claims the track was a big hit in the Caribbean, is suing Miley and Sony to block further distribution, sales, and performances of We Can't Stop, and for compensation to the tune of $300 million (GBP215 million).
© AP Miley Cyrus poses in the press room at the 60th annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, in New York.
He claims Cyrus' song "owes the basis of its chart-topping popularity to and its highly-lucrative success to plaintiff May’s protected, unique, creative and original content".
We Can't Stop, which featured on Cyrus' album Bangerz, reached number two on the Billboard Hot
He claims Cyrus' song "owes the basis of its chart-topping popularity to and its highly-lucrative success to plaintiff May’s protected, unique, creative and original content".
We Can't Stop, which featured on Cyrus' album Bangerz, reached number two on the Billboard Hot
100 in 2013.
© AP Miley Cyrus arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Ironically, it was kept off the top of the countdown by Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, which was to become the subject of a lengthy court case between Thicke and songwriter Pharrell Williams and the children of soul legend Marvin Gaye, who claimed the hit borrowed heavily from their father's 1977 tune Got to Give it Up.
Thicke and Williams were ordered to pay the soul singer's estate $7.3 million (£5.2 million) after a judge ruled their hit ripped off Gaye's tune. The musicians are currently appealing the verdict.
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