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Last week, Katy Perry took the stand before a civil jury in downtown Los Angeles as part of a five-year-old lawsuit and maintained that she was not familiar with Flame’s “Joyful Noise” (featuring Lecrae) when she created her 2013 hit “Dark Horse.” Despite her origins as a Christian musician—then performing as Katy Hudson—Perry said that she was “mostly always listening to…secular music.”