And even movies like the Academy Award winning movie Gone With the Wind are being temporarily pulled from online media channels. But from a publicity and optics standpoint, yes, simply changing to Scott, Kelley & Haywood or something similar would have put them much more on the right side of this issue publicly than they are now. But, ultimately, this is becoming another case of people not letting facts and logic get in the way of a good Tweet. From left: Dave Haywood, Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley of Lady A attend the 55th annual Country Music Association awards at the Bridgestone Arena on November 10, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee. 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 country group formerly known as Lady Antebellum announced last week that it was changing its name due to the association with slavery. If you want to be an advocate or an ally, you help those who youre oppressing. It means before the war and comes from the latin ante bellum. pic.twitter.com/zQ7TrrL7VJ, Medium Historian At Large (@one0nine) June 11, 2020. Lady A is my brand, Ive used it for over 20 years, and Im proud of what Ive done. Groveling to the BLM mob for a freakin non-offensive word. July 9, 2020 @ You cant give in to the woke cancel-culture mob. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. Dave Haywood, Hillary Scott, and Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum attend the 48th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, November 5, in Nashville, Tennessee. However, as Lady A the band explained when they made the name change, they had already been using the Lady A name for many years, which as someone who covers country music, I can vouch for. The group decided to do this in order to get rid of the antebellum term, which has been associated with slavery . Who is being selfish. Dee Manning Now theyre the avatars of oppression, only because its what is filling peoples Twitter feeds. Perception is reality. They tie things to power dynamics and related historical grievances. 144 Comments. 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. But the fact that they have owned the trademark on Lady A specifically for 10 years, and Anita Carter is asking $10 million to resolve the dispute, and that theyre suing her for NOTHING aside for asking for fair, dual use of a trademark they already own, are definitely important points to underscore. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. How are they selfish? In fact, the Anita White team might have been holding that over the bands head. June 11, 2020, 10:28 AM PDT / Source: TODAY. My God people come aawwnn, EmmmArrrEmmm (@EmmmArrrEmmm) June 11, 2020. Jake Cutter By Marina Watts On 6/11/20 at 12:24 PM EDT. Also, when you apply for a trademark, there is an extended waiting period where it is put out in the public domain for anyone to dispute the claim to it. antebellum was a problem name to begin withplenty of money already, but never enough for the richchange the band name to something else, dismiss the lawsuit already, apologize for being bigots, donate some $ to a traditional black college, and be done alreadyshow real change & enlightenment with action! I hear Alabama (the band) is considering changing its name to avoid any unintended association with Alabama (the state). The group is not seeking financial damages from White, nor that she change her stage name, but is instead suing her for recognition of a trademark it claims we have held for many years and to avoid further litigation. His use of the word extortion meets all 4 standards of a defamatory statement (libel or slander). The hurt is turning into hope. Photo illustration by Slate. July 9, 2020 @ July 10, 2020 @ Like Ozzy Osbourne said once during the height of the PMRC debacle, whenever I hear of a teenager getting arrested for a horrible crime, I think please dont be wearing an Ozzy tshirt, please dont be wearing an Ozzy tshirt.. ). Instead, we shared our stories, listened to each other, prayed and spent hours on the phone and text writing a song about this experience together. After much personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closes black friends and colleagues, we have decided to drop the word antebellum from our name and move forward as Lady A, the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start.. It began with the radical JEW Leon Trotsky in late 1800s as a device Chase Rice really did take a selfie with a large crowd of unmasked fans, and did post the we back vid to make it look packed as possible. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. culture is p.c. Lady A. did not and now they are screwed. 8:50 am. Not pictured: the real Lady A. Published The band dropped 'Antebellum' over racist connotations, but a black singer said she'd already used 'Lady A' for decades. 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. Clueless, innocent, and sheltered maybe They grew up in very white neighborhood. 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. Once somebody explained it and the mob caught on to what antebellum signifies, theyd have been all over the group. Noah Berlatsky (@nberlat) June 11 . Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) June 11, 2020. The band Lady A concluded their statement with a commitment 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. According to their suit, Lady A do have legal claim to the Lady A name that precede the official name change. Country singer Luke Bryan has called the drama surrounding Lady Antebellum's name change 'a mess.' Nobody was clamoring for them to change the name in the first place. So artists, and their fans, should not do stupid crap that reinforces the stereotype. 10:20 am, Johnny Bravo Wait isnt Good Housekeeping in need of a name change? 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. July 9, 2020 @ They dont want $$$$$$, the R&B singer wants the $$$$$. Ill be he could come up with some alternative names for the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum! . history is now being revealed and many blacks are waking up , along with the Global population. 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 as Lady A, the nickname our fans gave us almost from the start. ". The members revealed that they decided to name their bands after the Southern Antebellum-style . All Rights Reserved. You win the comments section. Furthermore, everyone knows what the A stands for. 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 . Thank you for reading! At least two users explained what the word means: Antebellum means the time before the war. But its their name, and they should have the freedom to change it if they choose. Or what if shes not really a lady at all? I am thinking of those stupid #isover parties on twitter where people get the hashtag trending. 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 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. 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.". Lady Antebellum's name-change blunder was easily avoidable, but they made this embarrassing misstep for the same reason they performed under an oppressive stage name for 14 years: a white . 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. The Lady Antebellum band started about 14 years ago. I dont think Lady Antebellum tried to do the right thing. Nothing about the word antebellum is racist. White said: It said that we would coexist and that they would use their best efforts to assist me on social media platforms, Amazon, iTunes, all that. Listen to Eye in the Sky by APP and Need You Now by LA. We need to take this moment and ask ourselves what could we have done better and what must we change so we can do better in the future. The trio wrote: "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. July 9, 2020 @ Landon Dee, what Im trying to say is that if the majority of the people who are upset werent even invested in them to begin with, what impact would this have on them from a career aspect besides maybe radio AirPlay? Alysse GafkjenFrom left: Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum photographed on Oct. 18, 2019 at the Fairlane Hotel in Nashville.From now on, the country act will officially be known . Their sales and streams are in line with Americana and independent country acts like Jason Isbell now. Or, when you give into the mob and still lose money, you might be a bleeding heart irrational pop country band. But maybe they shouldve thought about it before going all woke with the name change. Too bad George Carlin isnt still around. 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. Its like if NWA decides from henceforth that stood for Ns With Attitudes. Lady Antebellum's name has been criticized more than once since it comes from the Antebellum period that came right before the Civil War, when slavery was still legal and the country had not yet been divided along the lines that would seek to tear it apart. The Grammy-winning vocal group filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court after negotiations with Anita White broke down in recent weeks. Problem solved. (As two examples, after Kane Brown appeared on the BET Awards, I saw a lot of positive comments about checking out other Black country artists. Big Machine has no interest in doing so. I hate to laugh at them but LOL. When they did it was ,as Rhiannon Giddens put it, cringe inducing. They just never read the room right in the first place. Classic example of virtue signaling and white woke blowing up in your face. July 9, 2020 @ Ghost of Country Past July 9, 2020 @ All rights reserved. If everything is racist, nothing is racist. 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. Lady Antebellum says it will now go by the name "Lady A." Here is Merriam-Webster's definition antebellum: : existing before a war. As I say explicitly in the article, Lady Antebellum should have checked to make sure there would have been no conflicts by changing to the name Lady A before they did so, and resolved any disputes before making the name public, especially since there was no major pressure to make the change at that time. In a lengthy note to fans on social . ET. Like how does your team not look into if they are other artists named that??? From a legal perspective, not much time has passed in this matter. 4:37 pm. 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? July 9, 2020 @ 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. And that the genre is getting awful publicity when it should be gaining new, young, progressively minded and BIPOC fans. Lady Antebellum may no longer exist, but the band will play on with a new name, and perhaps even a new mindset that will make it more welcoming and inclusive than it was before. On Thursday, Grammy-winning country band Lady Antebellum formally changed its name to Lady A. Wait, so the band who copied a song (without credit) from The Alan Parsons Project now wants to protect something of theirs? Doesnt the A still stand for Antebellum?? You cant make this shit up. Chase Rice really did take a selfie with a large crowd of unmasked fans, and did post the we back vid to make it look packed as possible. I doubt its even their management. Lady Anti-Antebellum? I agree that the optics are terrible on this, and realistically they probably werent on anyones radar to be cancelled because of their name. It doesnt make you too PC. Further applications to register the name for musical recordings and merchandise were also granted with no opposition. By Alexander Kacala. I imagine theyll settle this eventually, unless Anita Whites counsel is entirely incompetent. Charles Kelley, who shares the vocal spotlight with Hillary Scott, says, "The first week was kind of . Before this matter, most of the people calling for their heads now didnt even know who the hell Lady Antebellum was. Lets face it many of these suburban areas have a racial undertone. But, I have mad respect for him because he has lived out the music he wrote and is certainly not one of these white wokes running around Nash and East Nash. Lady Antebellum could always change her name to Lady ?, but then shes be infringing on the band ? 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. As I started off yesterdays article about the PPP loans with, We live in the age of shame. Grammy-winning band Lady Antebellum has now changed their name to 'Lady A' to eliminate any reference to pre-Civil War slavery and racial injustice. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google. July 9, 2020 @ In a statement, the members of the country group said that representatives for White demanded a $10m [7.79m] payment. production They were never a big tour draw. July 9, 2020 @ ", 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. Sorry, but not being discriminated based on the color of your skin is not a privilege, its a fundamental human right, and no amount of gaslighting by the Robin DiAngelos lunatics will change that. 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. I hope t Lady Antebellum goes down like the Dixie Chicks. 10:39 am. Stay in your Lane Dude you miss the key fact. But the optics are terrible here, especially for the former Lady Antebellum, but really for both Lady As. Koury Angelo . So today, we speak up and make a change. True hypocrites, who do they think theyre fooling? 10:19 am. June 16, 2020 / 7:20 PM / CBS News. Whiskey_Pete To be fair, George Washington ripped out his living slaves teeth to make his dentures. July 9, 2020 @ 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. It keeps them recognizable while eliminating a word some deem problematic. Lets pray we can say is the same thing about America as well. Everything thing they do from how they dress to their actual music seems like it goes through a marketing review before it gets the ok. From their original name to the name change to the lawsuit I actually doubt that the members of this group have that much of a clue about any of it and just go along with what theyve been told to do because it works to make them money and their managers and lawyers and record company etc. "When we set out together almost 14 years ago . People come to a new genre in various indirect ways. If I Change Your Name, they should do a cover of Destinys Child Say My Name and donate the proceeds to the out of work tour crew, Apparently private individuals making decisions that are right for them separate from the state is too much for so called conservatives, a stirring in our hearts and reflection on our own blindspots Now you can do gay clubs like the Dixie Chicks. As musicians, it reminded us of all the music born in the south that influenced ussouthern rock, blues, R&B, gospel and of course country, the band said. 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. Hes true to his origins. P.C. 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). But according to Anita White, Lady As concessions were not satisfactory. So whats the lesson? Your email address will not be published. Antebellum is an umbrella term for elements of culture that existed in Southern states after the American Revolution, but before the Civil War. But if country music avoids being banned over the terms link to ideas of untoward nationalism, radio stations will no longer be playing music by hit group Lady Antebellum. The group could change their name to Lady Antifa. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, White revealed that Lady Antebellum didn't contact her before announcing their name change, which took her completely by surprise. Songwriter and producer Shane McAnally said it best. Lady Antebellum has changed its name to Lady A. They added that with White they had shared our stories, listened to each other, prayed and spent hours on the phone and text writing a song about this experience together. This week, the Grammy-winning trio announced it will change its name due to in the . [Insert smiley face here.]. make something special and beautiful out of this moment Maybe Hillary and the Muppets should just be known as Summers Eve because of the giant douches they have become. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, 61-year-old Seattle artist Anita White slammed the Grammy-winning group for adopting the new moniker without consulting her first. A court is being asked to determine the band's right to the name. The album covers and such havent been switched, but their actual name for everything else is changed to just Lady A. And if youre the party paying out, your first offer is at least half as much as you think you owe. Change their name to Lady Reconstruction. As for Lady A, formerly Lady Antebellum you are a complete disgrace to bow to this WOKE CRAP. All that old merchandise with the old name will still be out there. This band has always struck me as something contrived by the music industry to make money. They can all quickly get high stakes, messy, and in some cases, personal. July 10, 202012:31 PM. (BTW the Chicks, another derogatory and degrading name for other reasons; there is no reclaiming of any offensive epithets). But I think this is an even greater indictment of the mob. Sydney Watson (@SydneyLWatson) June 11, 2020, MemphisFromZero (@MemphisFromZero) June 11, 2020. Country group Lady Antebellum is making a huge change to their band - they are changing its name. 11:17 pm. The Chicks did and worked it before hand. 1:03 pm, Dont tell me what I would profess, Sparky. 11:39 pm, In fairness, non-white sodomites are fucking HILARIOUS, Luckyoldsun Lady As change comes as our nation comes to terms with some of the most dramatic and rapid shifts in Americans attitude towards race in the nations history. 2:31 pm. When country band Lady Antebellum changed its name to Lady A last week, it may have caught some fans off guard. Just one problem: White said she had used the exact same name since the 1980s, performing as Lady A thousands of times at concerts and festivals across the country. Lady Antebellum changes name in wake of Black Lives Matter movement, The country-pop trio who won Record and Song of the Year Grammys for their 2009 smash "Need You Now" have renounced the . Some criticized the decision, accusing the trioof "pandering" and "apologizing" unnecessarily. Do you know when Greenpeace or a similar group shows a picture of some poor bear or raccoon who has had his head stuck in a discarded bottle? This has nothing to do with PC BS, selfish, entitled and sanctimonious millennials or woke whatever. Its funny seeing him sequel like a white woke pig. There will not be a better comment on this story, period. The Lady Antebellum story went viral specifically due to the implications of the title, which did not tell the whole story. 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. Also, this matter is much bigger than the music, with implications of how this current racial reconciliation will continue to unfold. 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. July 9, 2020 @ 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 . Lady Antebellum is changing its name. July 9, 2020 @ Unlikely. Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum, jumped on social media on June 11, 2020 to explain why the country band changed its name. Weve only taken the first small steps and will prioritize racial equality as a key pillar of the work of LadyAID, specifically leaning into supporting and empowering our youth. Bryan said that Lady A was a "great option" for the band to change their name to, but "now it's tricky. Come on. On Thursday, Grammy-winning country band Lady Antebellum formally changed its name to Lady A. 9:49 am. or NYT Stylebooks, you had better make sure to capitalize Black person and to lower case white personor youre a filthy racist, presumably. Random Notes Read Lady As complete message on Twitter below. Causing pain was never our hearts intention, but it doesnt change the fact that indeed, it did just that. 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. July 9, 2020 @ But if Anita White wanted to dispute it, she had an opportunity. Want to know what everyone in the music business is talking about. The terms of the agreement, including who can continue to use what name or if any money changed hands, were not made public. A Warner Bros. It shouldnt have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it. The term Antebellum is derived from the Antebellum Era in the American South when slavery was still legal. Information about your device and internet connection, like your IP address, Browsing and search activity while using Yahoo websites and apps. The cancel culture must not be fed. Maybe they should have just left well enough alone. Internet and social media searches for Lady A, which had readily returned results for her music, were now dominated by references to Lady Antebellum. Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. However good their music is, it was never a good title. 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. I urge everyone to actually READ [the] article. How about changing it to Person A that way people dont assume her gender? Ms. Whites LADY A brand had been usurped and set on the path to erasure.. The $10 million demand by Anita White and her lawyers is ludicrous and completely unfounded, especially if as the lawsuit claims, Lady Antebellum has owned the Lady A trademark for a decade without dispute. *[at fests where their set was before the acts we came to see]. (Im a genius.yes, I know), T-grondo It would be starting over from scratch. Sidney Caesar However, I think we all should zoom out and look at the bigger picture, especially on a matter as complicated as this one. Just ask Louis XVI and Nicholas II.They appeased the Jacobins and Bolsheviks and they were entered into the grave. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. This is the reason B.J. 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