But it just seems like they jumped the gun on this. Athletes, CEOs, And Movie Stars Are Getting Older: Why Your Best Days Are Ahead Of You: The Changemaker Interview: Michael Nyenhuis, CEO, UNICEF USA, Leading Lenovos Move Toward Solutions And Services. Not a fan of country A at all, and think they made some dumb moves and Im kind of laughing at them about this. I am not able to name a single song of theirs, and Ive seen them twice in concert! A trademark means that youre taking something and making sure nobody else can use it for marketing purposes so theres no confusion. stookyvookyosis You win the comments section. Now that action has resulted in them publicly suing a well-respected black member of the music community and receiving a massive backlash for it. The Scott Borchetta Zoom Calls at Big Machine I imagine have been a scream this week, jacob hatcher Doesnt the A still stand for Antebellum?? Im not saying the group is fake but Im not lying when say that theyve always come across to me as something sort of phony. But by focusing on the inequities of others, you avoid addressing your own.. I attempted to upload my single [on independent distribution service DistroKid] and couldnt verify my name, Lady A, for several days. Im sure hes an intellectual property specialist who knows a lot more about trademark law than anybody here. Today, June 11, 2020, the country band took to their social medium platforms to announce the news. You often cannot copyright a name because as a simple expression, and its not fair to take that out of circulation for general use by anyone. White Woke Gone Wild is my new band name. On Thursday, the country band formerly known as Lady Antebellum announced on Instagram that they changed their name in . 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. In this case, even in 2010, could Anita White have established that the general public would readily associate her with the term Lady A? Begging and simultaneously squealing racism. Anita White will go straight to Don Lemon and say the white woke millennial trio and Big Machine are a bunch of hypocritical racists. Songwriter and producer Shane McAnally said it best. Dove Shore*. They sang backup on his version of Wagon Wheel. ", Country band Lady Antebellum is in the throes of a lawsuit over the name Lady A, which they now go by after reconsidering their previous name's reference to the pre-abolition South. Barham continues to use the American Aquarium name even though hes turned over band mates half a dozen times. Country group Lady A, which dropped the word "Antebellum" from its name because of the word's ties to slavery, has filed a lawsuit against a Black singer who has performed as Lady A for years. The desire to change the names appeared to me more about self perception than what anybody else thought. By the way, Antebellum is a Latin term that means before the war and primarily refers to architecture. As most any civil lawyer will tell you, when trying to settle with a party, the first offer you float is always twice as much as you think the top end of what you might get is. I just saw a new compass. It might have beenas Lady A somewhat alludes to in the lawsuitit was a necessity due to how the Anita White team were negotiating in bad faith, using the give us what we want, or were calling you racist and will smear your reputation card over their heads. Landon July 9, 2020 @ If one of your favorite artists isnt getting naked and barking at the moon in your living room then just continue being a longtime listener and forget the ridiculous crap that comes out of their mouths when they arent singing and dancing like good little monkeys. The band dropped 'Antebellum' over racist connotations, but a black singer said she'd already used 'Lady A' for decades. Choosing the term themselves gets seen as reclaiming language and self-empowering if anybody bothers to think about it at all. Chart-topping US pop group Lady Antebellum have changed their name to Lady A because Antebellum has connotations with the slavery era. And what I find as irritating as the p.c. This is the entire reason there are trademarks, and trademark law, is to avoid these very scenarios. If I were Big Machine I would quickly pay out the $10 Million to prevent Don Lemon making his waves through Music row shaking down the big labels because they arent black enough. Lady A. 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. Dont piss on my leg and tell me its raining. They didn't even bother to notify her of their new trademark. Extortion is an extremely strong word, and not one I have or would use. @ Trigger That would have been the right thing to do. Maybe they should have just left well enough alone. Her lawyer, again if competent, knows theyre going to lose the dec action and this will bring them into a more realistic negotiation point. 10:15 am. Or to be instructedas we were last week, that if you write something for a publication that subscribes to the A.P. Lady Antebellum just dropped Antebellum from their name. Blind spots we didnt even know existed have been revealed, Lady As statement said. June 11, 2020, 10:28 AM PDT / Source: TODAY. July 9, 2020 @ Not that this means a whole lot legally, but Wikipedia page was created the and day this controversy broke, and at this point its impossible to determine what her online Etc presence was prior to all of this, but I would imagine it was nominal. Heres a suggestion How about changing your name to Lady A-hole . living out the calling, educating ourselves, our children I do not feel one bit sorry for the country LADY A group. 10:41 am. Bryan said that Lady A was a "great option" for the band to change their name to, but "now it's tricky. 12:04 pm. As such, members Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood have changed their name to Lady A. The incentive to change things or not to be inclusive is going to come from much larger market and cultural forces. I guess it maybe would have better for the band to wait to get sued and then be the respondent? Furthermore, everyone knows what the A stands for. White, a black woman, called the bands adoption of her long-standing name an example of pure privilege., The band sued White in 2020 after she rebuffed early requests for a settlement that both groups could use the name. Country trio Lady Antebellum . 1:15 pm. 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. John R Baker They already had the name Lady A trademarked and it was in common parlance. We will continue to educate ourselves, have hard conversations, and search the parts of our hearts that need pruning, The band also said theyll be making a donation to the Equal Justice Initiative, which according to the organizationswebsite is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society., Moreover, Lady A wants to be better allies to those suffering from spoken and unspoken injustices. It was a have your cake and eat it too half measure. 1:06 pm. June 11, 2020 9:54am. Its questionable if Antebellum was problematic in the first place. All rights reserved. 8:33 am. Because the whites being offended for blacks are now going to battle against the name of a genre of Latino music. Introducing, Lady A. I totally agree with this, and I think we agree on this point in general. When they did it was ,as Rhiannon Giddens put it, cringe inducing. They just never read the room right in the first place. "I first heard about Lady Antebellum's planned name change after they went public on June 11, 2020, at which point I was shocked and taken aback. That A has to stand for something. 11:31 pm. By Drew Weisholtz. Unlikely. While CMA & Music Row operate independently of Billboard, they are not exactly siloed off from each other either. I do find it kind of humorous how articles make the Anita Lady A out to be some revolutionary well known artist in her area when her monthly Spotify listeners before this was less than twenty, and before this went down she genuinely was getting about five or less likes on her Twitter posts. Groveling to the BLM mob for a freakin non-offensive word. If you want to be an advocate or an ally, you help those who youre oppressing. First published on Thu 9 Jul 2020 05.47 EDT. Lady A is my brand, I've used it . More to come. However we didnt hear anything more about the situation, until Wednesday (7/8) when the country Lady A announced they are preemptively suing the R&B Lady A after negotiations broke down on how to move forward with both artists using the Lady A name. Legal Statement. Army WO Pilot (@Army_WO_Pilot) June 11, 2020, Comfortably _()_/ (@Eyeroll_Shrugs) June 11, 2020, No, THIS is Ludacris. 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. However, I think we all should zoom out and look at the bigger picture, especially on a matter as complicated as this one. I understand that its ironic that they were attempting to be conscientious of African Americans and how their name may make them feel and end up choosing a name used by an African American artist, but if the same scenario arose between two white artists, would the optics be as bad? In a lengthy note to fans on social . Perception is reality. The band formerly known as Lady Antebellum and blues singer Anita White have settled their trademark dispute over the name . You can never appease a progressive enough. 2023 Billboard Media, LLC. Is it an improvement? Changing their name before vetting it and clearing it with anyone else who may be using it was irresponsible, and so is suing Lady A preemptively. Just ask Louis XVI and Nicholas II.They appeased the Jacobins and Bolsheviks and they were entered into the grave. 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). This has nothing to do with them being millennials and everything to do with their record label and management company being equally freaked out they would get labeled by social media as being racist, while also trying to score some free, positive publicity. The law of unintended consequences whiplashed back around on them and has now smacked them in the back of the head ten fold. Its also not inclusive of transgender people. I would say that the word antebellum (before the war) at least has a racial connotation in the American context as it is typically associated with The South before the Civil War. Now you can do gay clubs like the Dixie Chicks. Its one thing to be told to refer to Caitlyn Jenner as she but its quite another to be told that we must agree that Caitlyn Jenner literally is a woman. Even though the band are well-off, ten million dollars is ridiculous. Its like if NWA decides from henceforth that stood for Ns With Attitudes. Im disappointed in the headline that Billboard and other news outlets are using as click bait, when the article clearly states that the band is only responding to a 10M $ extortion demand. Once again the online mobespecially on Twitteris reacting to a drive-by, 260-character notion of the story instead of the actual situation with all the details. Suing Anita White first is an exceptional move. Blues singer Lady A is fighting back months after country band Lady A sued her in an ongoing dispute over their shared moniker. Its certainly not Lady Antebellum. The popular country trio announced Thursday morning that it is dropping "Antebellum" a word widely understood to refer to the period before the Civil War from its name and will officially adopt "the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start.". The group decided to do this in order to get rid of the antebellum term, which has been associated with slavery . The band said the name had not been intended as racist, but that they had had their eyes opened by recent events. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. 9:12 pm, Saving Bro Country Music I hear Alabama (the band) is considering changing its name to avoid any unintended association with Alabama (the state). Lady Antebellum announced it had changed its name to Lady A on June 11 as part of its commitment to "examining our individual and collective impact and marking the necessary changes to practice antiracism." Antebellum refers to an era in the American south before the civil war when black people were held as slaves. A century and a half after the end of the Civil War and the reunification of the United States, America is perhaps just now, finally, grappling with the unfinished work of bridging and healing a nation divided by race. Lady Antebellum says it will now go by the name "Lady A." Here is Merriam-Webster's definition antebellum: : existing before a war. And frankly, I think if more details about that event were brought to light, people would be even more outraged. Thats whats happening with Lady A the band at this very moment, and its being driven in large part by a false narrative, driven by bad headlines and a lack of full information. Shane did not say it best. Causing pain was never our hearts intention, but it doesnt change the fact that indeed, it did just that., Lady A also noted that many may wonder why it took them so long, [W]e can make no excuse for our lateness to this realization. On Tuesday, Seattle recording artist . 4:50 am. Just call it Charlie and whats her name. Id rather not listen to Eye in the Sky. Creepy song. And while Americas musical lexicon is getting a millennial makeover, we might wanna renameDire Straits, which could make people feel insecure, andKISS, which may conjure thoughts of sexual harassment. You have to actively use your trademark, and you must issue cease and desist actions on others who are infringing on your trademark. appreciated. Ive had people suggest (and sometimes demand) I change the name of this site over the years. The highest-grossing movie of Tarantino's career, Django Unchained was a refreshing Revisionist Western that explored the horrific racism and atrocities of the Antebellum South without holding . the real lady a Whats irritating about being expected to consider other peoples feelings and not be an insensitive asshole? Business, Economics, and Finance. The multiple-Grammy\-winning country music band Lady Antebellum has changed its name to Lady A due to the word . Their music is straight up adult contemporary anyway. 8:31 am. The Nashville trio have won five Grammys and had seven US top . Sept. 16, 2020 11:03 AM PT. 12:35 pm. July 10, 2020 @ Lady Anti-Antebellum? Lady As name change is the most recent example. You also must get the issue right. Antebellum is an umbrella term for elements of culture that existed in Southern states after the American Revolution, but before the Civil War. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. thegentile So yes mn, lawyer bad. The 3 artists that form the band have a net worth of approximately 25 million dollars EACH, so I dont believe that the 10 million dollar lawsuit is excessive. 9:21 pm, Like a feminine hygiene productniceeeee , Lady Antebellum..should have changed their name to..Lady Ayall!, Huh, huh????? 9:08 am. Sports leagues like NASCAR are banning the Confederate flag at its events. Again, the lesson many will take from this issue is, Dont change your name at all. In fact, it's a black woman in Seattle, who's gone by Lady A for more than two decades. Hes true to his origins. I see your point. They still havent figured out the JEWS were Anything short of that, and they are equal to slave owners. 11:37 pm. July 10, 2020 @ And even movies like the Academy Award winning movie Gone With the Wind are being temporarily pulled from online media channels. As such, he crossed the Columbia River and helped establish the Washington Territory, which eventually became a state. July 11, 2020 @ But really though this cancel mob may seem like an on-line majority but in the real world I find these people to largely be cowards on the issues when asked directly about them in a nuanced way/, PennCentral Sereng3ti We hope you will dig in and join us., The change comes after, they wrote, a period of personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues., Weve watched and listened more than ever these last few weeks, and our hears have been stirred with conviction, our eyes opened wide to the injustices, inequality and biases black women and men have always faced and continue to face every day, they wrote. However, in their specific use of A in their new name, it still means Antebellum. Now they have lost any goodwill they gained from doing that and more. And I probably dont agree with Isbell on most issues. Because I saw the band Lady A at the Bluebird Cafe very early into their forming and have known them interchangeably as Lady Antebellum and Lady A pretty much ever since. We can do so much more together than in this dispute. (REUTERS/Mike Blake), "Who knows what they'll have to figure out, but, God, what a mess in the aftermath of removing 'antebellum.'". In reality, they just want a judge to say they can use the name too. 618creekrat The idea they have $10 million dollars just laying around because theyre a mainstream band is ludicrous. 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. Seriously the term white privilege is such a dumb and divisive term I cant help but feel that it only exists to turn society into a perpetual race warfare. This week, the Grammy-winning trio announced it will change its name due to in the . This is a classic example of virtual signaling and wokeness blowing up in their woke faces and Im laughing way too hard at this than I should. They are eliminating the South in order to be sensitive. I feel sorry for the threesome. It's really something. People like getting fired up about something but everyone moves on in a matter of days or weeks. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, I love it when liberal idiots eat their own. Maybe Hillary and the Muppets should just be known as Summers Eve because of the giant douches they have become. Lady A was suing for $0. The trio, more likely their management and publicity team, really screwed up, and this whole thing is going to get uglier. Is it the band doing this or their management? July 12, 2020 @ (Photo by Taylor Hill/Getty Images). There is nothing wrong with the word antebellum. 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? June 11, 2020 / 2:37 PM / CBS News. hey trigger. 9:34 am, Maybe they shouldve gone with Lady _. 1:51 pm. Or in my case, I wasnt into country except for Johnny Cash, until one of my all time faves, Gwen Stefani, started to date Blake Shelton so I checked him out and moved forth from there. Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood of Lady A are not racists. 6:34 pm. I hope t Lady Antebellum goes down like the Dixie Chicks. You have to properly gauge the intent of individuals and zoom out to see the bigger picture. Lady Antebellum have changed their name to "Lady A" and issued a statement apologizing for any hurt their original name may have caused. July 10, 2020 @ Theyve owned the trademark on Lady A for 10 years. When you join the herd, you deserve the cow shit you fall into. Your effort and contribution in providing this feedback is much July 10, 2020 @ January 13, 2023 @ 10:37 am, Lady America has a nice, patriotic vibe. I think these political arguments are healthy and necessary. The trio now known as Lady A Hillary Scott, Charles . The lesson of this story is that if you choose a new band name make sure nobody else is using it first. no one wants to be associated with racism anymore, not even country musicians. The members revealed that they decided to name their bands after the Southern Antebellum-style . July 11, 2020 @ Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. docweasel Thats the only actual similarity to the Highwomen thing. Who is being selfish. The dumb and dumber still do not even know where the stupid Racism Related: Blues singer lambasts Lady Antebellum's name change, says she's been Lady A for 20 years. Did You Ever Wonder How and Why the Left Is Able to Push Their Narratives Almost Unhindered? True. 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 . And still and all, this is just behind the scenes bullshit that should stay there. My suggestion is Lady Abolition (or is that a white savior connotation?). Causing pain was never our heart's intention, but it doesn't change the fact that indeed, it did just that. Since then, the band has filed a lawsuit to secure rights to the name, which they claim has been a nickname of theirs throughout their career. Of course, they couldnt play clubs cause the liquor sales would be dismal The term often pertains to architecture, fashion, antiquities, and the likenamely the ornate finery of the era. The $10 million demand from Anita White is exorbitant and ludicrous. Why dont they just change their name simply to the Hillary Scot Band or Scott, Kelley & Haywood? Thanks for giving the cancel culture mob more ammo, Lady Antebellum. Period. Musiccityman And does Lady A really think that suing a black woman over trying to change your name from a potentially racially-insensitive term is the way to get on the right side of this issue? Musiccityman The casual Person looking at this and especially the vermin in the media is that a white privileged millennial country trio back by a mega country label is suing a poor black woman. July 9, 2020 @ This is what happens when you apologize to a mob of thugs and domestic terrorists. Lets pray we can say is the same thing about America as well. Published Trying to trash the poor black woman. OOPS! The Lady Antebellum band started about 14 years ago. When we learned that Ms. White had also been performing under the name Lady A, we had heartfelt discussions with her about how we can all come together and make something special and beautiful out of this moment. A name that theyve stated in many interviews over the year that they didnt even know what it meant at first, but it is a really interesting case study of our current times. What we can do is acknowledge it, turn from it and take action. It is difficult to keep up on everything that gets cancelled in culture. Their camp is trying to erase me, White claimed to Newsday on June 16th. We are deeply sorry for the hurt this has caused and for anyone who has felt unsafe, unseen or unvalued. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! 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