The pandering is nauseating at this point. Yes, though the case in point is that there already was a band named The Chicks as well. In an interview with Vulture published yesterday, White said she is seeking $10m (7.8m) in order to use half to rebrand and market herself, with the other half to be donated to charities including those that support independent black artists. July 9, 2020 @ Thats the story. He didnt get the issue right. If theres someone out there thats worse than you, then you cant be all that bad. This is a lawyer who is solely focused on the legal ramifications who somehow convinced everyone else, We must sue now or were screwed! and for some reason believes fighting it out in the country of public opinion is also smart. July 9, 2020 @ Lady Antebellum just dropped Antebellum from their name. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. The big change attracted mixed reactions on Twitter. The Lady Antebellum band started about 14 years ago. (Photo by Terry Wyatt/Getty Images). The Chicks did and worked it before hand. This feels like a classic matter where lawyers on both sides got involved, started seeing dollar signs, and they will be the ones who will make out like bandits as the two parties get dragged through litigation. So today, we speak up and make a change. It would be starting over from scratch. But, ultimately, this is becoming another case of people not letting facts and logic get in the way of a good Tweet. Typical bullshit from your type. It was a stirring in our hearts and reflection on our own blindspots that led us to announce a few weeks ago that we were dropping the word Antebellum from our name and moving forward using only the name so many of our fans already knew us by. But we are regretful and embarrassed to say that we did not take into account the associations that weigh down this word referring to the period of history before the civil war, which includes slavery. When they did it was ,as Rhiannon Giddens put it, cringe inducing. They just never read the room right in the first place. Sports leagues like NASCAR are banning the Confederate flag at its events. Country band Lady Antebellum, which recently changed its name to Lady A, met with blues singer Lady A on Monday after news broke that there already was an artist with that name . The multiple-Grammy\-winning country music band Lady Antebellum has changed its name to Lady A due to the word . I hear Alabama (the band) is considering changing its name to avoid any unintended association with Alabama (the state). docweasel Change their name to Lady Reconstruction. Clueless, innocent, and sheltered maybe. Songwriter and producer Shane McAnally said it best. It began with the radical JEW Leon Trotsky in late 1800s as a device Agenda began. After much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues, we have decided to drop the word antebellum from our name and move forward When we set out together almost 14 years ago, we named our band after the southern antebellum style home where we took our first photos. Musiccityman With search engines, URLs, social media algorhythms, programmatic learning, and the way touring guarantees are specifically pegged to previous earnings, youre basically starting back from zero. Listen to Eye in the Sky by APP and Need You Now by LA. Yes, we have. I think in matters like these it is important for everyone to divest themselves in their personal taste in music and see the bigger picture. They were not responding to some fierce backlash about their name when they made the change. Country singer Luke Bryan has called the drama surrounding Lady Antebellum's name change 'a mess.' (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images) Now, country superstar Luke Bryan has voiced his opinion . But the optics are terrible here, especially for the former Lady Antebellum, but really for both Lady As. Copyrights and trademarks are two separate things. Triple 8 never addressed that part of the event. That would be much more fitting. The Grammy Award-winning country trio posted a [+] heartfelt message to social media on Thursday (June 11), explaining its realization that Antebellum is a reference to slavery in America. July 9, 2020 @ The poor guy on the left looks like he has had his head stuck in a glass pickle jar since 2008 and a fine steward of the earth just relieved him from his misery right before the picture was taken. Whites demand for an exorbitant payment in exchange for continued coexistence, notwithstanding the previous absence of discussion of any payment (other than reimbursement of nominal attorneys fees), gives rise to imminent controversy, demonstrating a course of action from which a threat of suit could be inferred based on Whites charge of infringement, the lawsuit says. I havent gone on Spotify or iTunes, but do their old albums still have Antebellum on them or have they been redone with the shortened name? Maybe Hillary and the Muppets should just be known as Summers Eve because of the giant douches they have become. Culture. And how can you go and post a photo with everybodys management, say we are working and making a deal, then sue them weeks later?? King Honky Of Crackershire You cant give in to the woke cancel-culture mob. Actually sounds pretty awesome!!! But as I see it neither this nor the Highwomen issue you are concerned about are really indicative of any larger issue. Lady Antebellum is a group of incredibly selfish individuals. Lady A started by changing their name to erase what some considered the racist connotations of "Antebellum" and to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. I also dont quite agree that they were trying to do the right thing. Related: Blues singer lambasts Lady Antebellum's name change, says she's been Lady A for 20 years. Notice how the Dixie Chicks came out unscathed from their name change, even though Chicks is deemed just as problematic if not more as Dixie in established PC dialogue? I feel sad but my principles come first. The band Lady A (formerly Lady Antebellum), left, and singer Anita White, who also performs under the stage name Lady A. before changing their name to shed its slavery-era connotations, Country group the Dixie Chicks announced that they would henceforth be known as the Chicks. Sign up for the Sleeve Notes email: music news, bold reviews and unexpected extras, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. She said she felt the bands actions had branded her as an angry black woman. Even though Im not a fan of their music, I believe they are decent human beings who go caught up in a moment, maybe took some bad advice, and now its turned into a huge mess. Lady Antebellum, the trio who have topped the US country album charts five times, are to change their name to Lady A due to the slavery connotations held by the word "antebellum". Carrie America (@carrieksada) June 11, 2020. At least I respect the F out of Isbell because hes not white woke. I dont think Lady Antebellum tried to do the right thing. Nothing about the word antebellum is racist. They got caught up in the whole woke/white guilt bullshit, and it backfired on them big time. Blind spots we didnt even know existed have been revealed, Lady As statement said. But what does that mean? Frankly, Lady A should fire their management team today for not pushing back on this idea from the start (if it did start from the artists). Thanks for giving the cancel culture mob more ammo, Lady Antebellum. WHY IS HE IN THE GROUP? 9:08 am. 7:31 am. Photo illustration by Slate. 6:53 am. I fail to see ANY upside to clinging to a name no one heard of before anyway. They are eliminating the South in order to be sensitive. Thank you for reading! The optics are horrible though, which the snazzy Nashville counsel likely was too ivory towerd up to think about. July 9, 2020 @ The Lady A trio going on the offense might be the best legal move, but its an absolutely terrible move from a publicity standpoint. I doubt its even their management. Lady A chose the name after taking their original band photos in front of an antebellum-style house. We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. The country trio, which came together in 2006, came forward on Twitter on June 11, 2020 to announce that it was "deeply sorry" for using a moniker that has its roots in slavery. The desire to change the names appeared to me more about self perception than what anybody else thought.. I cant express to you how difficult it would be for any band to just rebrand to a completely different name. Most people would do the EXACT same thing in her shoes.) You massively overrate the intelligence of country music fans and music journalist in general. make something special and beautiful out of this moment And inevitably win the civil dispute on appeal. I was told Boogaloo is being attacked. As for the mob not coming after Lady Antebellum: Its probably because the mob is largely uneducated and ignorant. This writer seems very sympathetic to them, but I see it as a bull-headed failure to admit they screwed up and instead of cutting their losses and moving on they are going to keep the story in the news for months and gin up more bad feeling against them. Make a counter offer for $25,000 and everyone goes off happy. The legal fight for "Lady A" began roughly a year-and-a-half ago, after amicable talks between the artists stalled following Lady A dropping "Antebellum" from its long-standing stage name. July 9, 2020 @ And then they launched solo projects, with Charles Kelley canceling parts of a solo tour because it was selling so poorly. Lady Antebellum has changed its name to Lady A. And no, this has nothing to do with the Highwomen either. The dec action may have been a tad preemptive, but this is a good way for Anita White to clamor down. Youve managed to be politically correct and kneel to your masters there. 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Nate Schatzline, George Santos' CNN Response Is a Master Troll Move, Biden owns border critics with chuckling reminder this mom's sons died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. Our next outward step will be a donation to the equal justice initiative through Ladyaid. The Scott Borchetta Zoom Calls at Big Machine I imagine have been a scream this week, jacob hatcher The country group formerly known as Lady Antebellum announced last week that it was changing its name due to the association with slavery. The real question is still.WHAT DOES DAVE HAYWOOD DO? Anything short of that, and they are equal to slave owners. Theyre going out of their way to say they want to share it with the artist Lady A, and that she has every right to continue to use it. Koury Angelo . Nobody is immune from fitting current events into their own established narrative. Causing pain was never our heart's intention, but it doesn't change the fact that indeed, it did just that. Lady Antebellum could always change her name to Lady ?, but then shes be infringing on the band ? The law of unintended consequences whiplashed back around on them and has now smacked them in the back of the head ten fold. Whats the point. You guys are the Karens of country music. Dee Manning "I can say that for years, everyone in the country music community has really referred to them as Lady A. writing a song about this experience together But by focusing on the inequities of others, you avoid addressing your own.. White explained: I was quiet for two weeks because I was trying to believe that it was going to be okay and that they would realise that it would be easier to just change their name, or pay me for my name. July 9, 2020 @ Doesnt the A still stand for Antebellum?? But what I do think Shane said best was that most everyone on Twitter was reacting to a headline, which is exactly what we see with controversy after controversy these days, whether its big artists taking PPP money that is actually going to their workers, Chase Rice playing a Normal show to an enormous and a full audience of 4,000 people when it was less than 1/4 of that, or saying that Country music kicked Lil Nas X out of the genre when it was simply Billboard removing him from their charts with no input from the country community who ended up giving him a CMA Award. I also dont believe for an instant that the members of Lady Antebellum are as woke as they claim to be or they would have relented the use of the name the moment they realized what they had done. Martin Kurtz Internet and social media searches for Lady A, which had readily returned results for her music, were now dominated by references to Lady Antebellum. And seeing the sheer outrage by peoplemost of whom as Shane McAnally said are simply reacting to a title instead of the nuance of the storyis definitely telling when you balance it with the utter silence on the Highwomen issue. Country group Lady Antebellum announced that they have changed their name to Lady A. Just ask Louis XVI and Nicholas II.They appeased the Jacobins and Bolsheviks and they were entered into the grave. Im not saying TAFKALA isnt within their rights. A court is being asked to determine the band's right to the name. Lastly, one user posed an interesting question: Now that Lady Antebellums gone the way of the dodo bird, surely Queens of the Stone Age will follow if the period just before the Civil War was rough, I can only imagine how unwoke cavepeople were. trevistrat No, its not about getting called out for making racist jokes or mocking someone for being gay. And no one gives a crap about their name . Change Your Name Bryan said that Lady A was a "great option" for the band to change their name to, but "now it's tricky. DeAnna Lorraine (@DeAnna4Congress) June 11, 2020. I guess it maybe would have better for the band to wait to get sued and then be the respondent? They have completely mismanaged this disaster and should cut their losses immediately, all sympathy is going to be with this blues singer. We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. Lady Antebellum, which formed in 2006, said Thursday that it is changing its name to Lady A, a "nickname" used by fans for years, and admitted being "regretful and embarrassed" that it had failed . culture is p.c. Literally, antebellum means "before war," but for quite some time it has been understood to mean the period of time before the American Civil War . Country group Lady Antebellum is making a huge change to their band - they are changing its name. Its not a perfect solution, but its addressing the concern. 618creekrat And the burden of proof is NOT on the R&B Lady A to do a legal search to find that someone else has trademarked a name that the R&B Lady A has been ACTIVELY using. Lady Antebellum changes name to Lady A, is 'regretful and embarrassed' about the name's association with slavery era By Emily Yahr June 11, 2020 at 1:04 p.m. EDT But according to Anita White, Lady As concessions were not satisfactory. I agree. After there was no opposition filed by any person or entity, the application was officially registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on July 26, 2011. That was their official explanation. It was a have your cake and eat it too half measure. And now Im a fan of a lot of different country artists.). July 11, 2020 @ Were still committed to educating ourselves, our children and doing our part to fight for the racial justice so desperately needed in our country and around the world. Lady A??? The group could change their name to Lady Antifa. After the band participated in a Zoom call with the other Lady A, Anita White, they said, Today, we connected privately with the artist Lady A. Transparent, honest, and authentic conversations were had. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for CMT/Viacom) The popular country band Lady Antebellum is undergoing a name change. My point is this: Perception Is Reality. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. I find PC culture as irritating as you but I understand it. Time for Big Machine to pay out the big bucks or I will personally label them racists. She and her team have demanded a $10 million payment, so reluctantly we have come to the conclusion that we need to ask a court to affirm our right to continue to use the name Lady A, a trademark we have held for many years. June 11, 2020, 10:28 AM PDT / Source: TODAY. Id offer maybe 1% of that. Or to be instructedas we were last week, that if you write something for a publication that subscribes to the A.P. The band said the name . But clearly the lawyers working for Anita White believe they have the advantage in the situation because if Lady A the band does anything less than give into their demands, they will be couched as racist in public. A millennial White privilege sh^%y country group suing the poor black woman . 12/21/2020. Is it the band doing this or their management? You also must get the issue right. We never even entertained the idea that she shouldnt also be able to use the name Lady A, and never will todays action doesnt change that. It means before the war and comes from the latin ante bellum. The world is changing quickly, and the future is unsure. They could have just changed it to Lady Belle (assuming thats available) and gone forth with life. Dove Shore*. 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