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Katy Perry has been accused of plagiarism for her recent hit 'Dark Horse'.

Christian rap group Flame - which consists of Marcus Gray, Chike Ojukwu, Lecrae Moore and Emanuel Lamber - have criticised the similarities between the trap-pop single and their own track 'Joyful Noise'.



The religious outfit have also complained that their song has been "irreparably tarnished by its association with the witchcraft, paganism, black magic and Illuminati imagery evoked by the same music in 'Dark Horse'".

The lawsuit was filed in St Louis, Missouri, reports the St Louis Post-Dispatch. DJ Cho'zyn Boy noticed tweets to Flame about the similarities and decided to compile an audio comparison to prove their resemblance.

"What listeners are hearing is Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' at 66 beats per minute and they're hearing Flame's 'Joyful Noise' at 76 beats per minute," the producer told Rapzilla.


"When they're separated, they seem a bit different, but when you bring them to the same tempo and you just change her pitch down one octave, they're identical... When things are that similar, it's hard to dispute."

Perry has yet to respond to the filed lawsuit.

It is not the first time that Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' has faced opposition. Religious groups labelled the accompanying music video "blasphemous" earlier this year, after Perry is seen dissolving a male suitor wearing an Allah pendant.

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