{"id":156820,"date":"2018-03-15T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T09:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=156820"},"modified":"2018-03-15T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T09:56:11","slug":"jamaican-act-flourgon-sues-miley-cyrus-over-we-cant-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/15\/jamaican-act-flourgon-sues-miley-cyrus-over-we-cant-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican act Flourgon sues Miley Cyrus over &#8216;We Can&#8217;t Stop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101017\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18221901_10155382250772147_1588497363496174312_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101017\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18221901_10155382250772147_1588497363496174312_n.jpg\" alt=\"Miley Cyrus says she's \u201ccompletely clean\u201d after giving up marijuana (Photo:  Miley Cyrus\/Facebook)\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18221901_10155382250772147_1588497363496174312_n.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18221901_10155382250772147_1588497363496174312_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18221901_10155382250772147_1588497363496174312_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Miley Cyrus (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MileyCyrus\/photos\/a.401907642146.180320.5845317146\/10155382250772147\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MileyCyrus\/\">Miley Cyrus\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Jamaican artist Flourgon has sued Miley Cyrus and Sony Music for the singer&#8217;s 2013 song, \u201cWe Can&#8217;t Stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in New York City, claims Cyrus&#8217; megahit borrows from Flourgon&#8217;s 1988 song, \u201cWe Run Things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On her song, Cyrus sings: \u201cWe run things, things don&#8217;t run we.\u201d Flourgon&#8217;s song includes virtually the same line, \u201cWe run things, things no run we.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flourgon&#8217;s real name is Michael May. The lawsuit, which seeks $300 million in damages, also names RCA Records, which is a Sony label, and Mike WiLL Made-It, who produced and co-wrote \u201cWe Can&#8217;t Stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cyrus&#8217; song became an international multiplatinum hit, giving her an official pop star breakthrough. The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>A representative for the defendants didn&#8217;t immediately return an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Jamaican artist Flourgon has sued Miley Cyrus and Sony Music for the singer&#8217;s 2013 song, \u201cWe Can&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48401,2167,48402],"class_list":["post-156820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-flourgon","tag-miley-cyrus","tag-we-cant-stop","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}