Miley Cyrus‘s single “We Can’t Stop” became a huge hit in 2013, but now the singer is facing legal troubles over the song.
Reportedly according to legal documents, Jamaican singer and songwriter Michael May (who performs as Flourgon) claimed that Cyrus stole the lyrics from his 1988 track “We Run Things.”
The lyrics in question are, “We run things / Things don’t run we.” May further stated that Cyrus used these lyrics and added that she “substantially incorporated” his “vocal melody/rhythm/cadence/inflection.”
Though it wasn’t specified how much May is suing Cyrus and her co-writers for, including Mike Will Made It, May’s lawyers asserted that the performer is seeking $300 million in damages.
May lawyers allege in the documents, “May was the first to construct such a sequence using the phrase ‘We run things. Things no run we’ and was the first musical artist to convey this unique, creative and original lyrical phrase/sequence into musical arrangement.”
May is also seeking a trial by jury and wants to prohibit Cyrus from profiting further from the song.
