Miley Cyrus fans are stunned as Instagram user reveals her Grammy Award-winning hit Flowers is a powerful lyrical response to Bruno Mars' legendary ballad

Miley Cyrus fans were left stunned Wednesday after her Grammy-winning single Flowers was ripped apart due to its lyrical and compositional similarity to previously released songs by other artists.

The American singer received mainstream music's top honor in February after the song was named Record of The Year and Cyrus Best Pop Solo Performance at the 66th annual Grammy Awards.

The break-up song, written by Cyrus with collaborators Gregory Hein and Michael Pollack, is widely believed to have been inspired by her divorce and subsequent divorce from ex-husband Liam Hemsworth.

But one clever Instagram user has highlighted the striking lyrical similarity to Bruno Mars hit When I Was Your Man, released twelve years before Flowers in 2012.

The chorus in particular seems to paraphrase Mars, who laments his apparent failure to buy his former lover flowers, hold her hand in public, or even dance with her.

The American singer received the highest award for mainstream music in January after the song was named Record of The Year and Cyrus Best Pop Solo Performance at the Grammy Awards.

Conversely, Cyrus reflects similar sentiments, albeit from the point of view of an empowered single woman who can “buy her own flowers” and “hold her own hand.”

Instagram user Jarred Jermaine also drew attention to the song's structure, highlighting its string arrangement and striking similarity to Gloria Gaynor's 1978 disco classic I Will Survive and South Korean girl group Ive's more contemporary 2023 single After Like.

Jermaine's comparisons also extend to Cyrus himself, whose thick Tennessee accent pairs eerily with the robotic sound of a Battle Droid from the George Lucas blockbuster Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Commenting on the post, a follower wrote, “Do these other artists get partial writing credit for her grammy?”

While a second theorized: “It was actually a sample of that song, as Miley's song is mainly a diss track from her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, with apparently Mars' song being romantically 'their' song.”

Elsewhere, a third joked: “She copied two songs, responded to one 11 years after it came out, impersonated a B-1 Battle Droid and thought she could get away with it.”

A fourth added: 'I felt this the moment I heard her song. I'm not sure how Bruno Mars feels about this.

“Because the reality is, she wouldn't even get a Grammy if she didn't make a song that directly responded to 'When I Was Your Man.'

Instagram user Jarred Jermaine also highlighted the string arrangement and its similarity to Gloria Gaynor's 1978 disco classic I Will Survive and South Korean girl group Ive's After Like.

Cyrus defeated Taylor Swift to win her first-ever Grammy Awards in February for Flowers, accepting her first honor – Best Pop Solo Performance – from host Mariah Carey at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.

“This MC will be standing next to this MC because this is just too iconic,” she said after receiving the award.

Cyrus then humorously admitted that she was more worried about missing meeting Mariah than accepting a Grammy Award when she was delayed on her way to the ceremony.

“Oh my God, I got stuck in the rain and traffic and thought I was going to miss this moment!”

“I could have missed the award, that's fine, but not Mariah Carey. I just saw you at the Hollywood Bowl and it was everything,” she added, quickly looking back at the fellow music artist.

Cyrus defeated Taylor Swift to win her first-ever Grammy Awards in February for Flowers, taking home her first honor – Best Pop Solo Performance – from host Mariah Carey

Cyrus – who was nominated for the award along with Billie Eilish (What Was I Made For?), Doja Cat (Paint the Town Red), Olivia Rodrigo (Vampire) and Taylor Swift (Anti-Hero) – then compared Flowers to catching of flowers. a butterfly.

She explained, “I was sitting in my lucky seat number three, and so I'm going to tell a story that sums up this moment, and I wasn't planning on telling it… but now Mariah is here.”

“So there was a little boy who just wanted a butterfly for his birthday, and his parents gave him a butterfly net. He was so excited and went outside in the sun and started swinging and swinging, but with no luck.

“He sat down on the ground and finally let go and surrendered, and he was okay with the fact that he wasn't going to catch this beautiful butterfly. And right as he did that, this butterfly flew down and landed right on his nose.”

'This song Flowers is my butterfly, thank you'

The hit was released last year in January 2023 and the singer apparently alluded to her past relationship with ex-husband Liam Hemsworth (photo)