That's what Lady Antebellum chose for their new band name because "antebellum" might be offensive to black people.
Too bad Lady A is already taken by a black blues singer.
Lady A's counter to the trio, who did not reach out to her before making the change, is "This is too much right now. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time. If it mattered, it would have mattered to them before. It shouldn’t have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it." She adds that their PR move is "an opportunity for them to pretend they’re not racist or pretend this means something to them. If it did, they would’ve done some research. And I’m not happy about that."
Too bad Lady A is already taken by a black blues singer.
Blues singer Lady A reacts to country group Lady Antebellum commandeering her name
"For them to not even reach out is pure privilege," Seattle artist Lady A told Rolling Stone. "I'm not going to lay down and let this happen to me."
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Lady A's counter to the trio, who did not reach out to her before making the change, is "This is too much right now. They’re using the name because of a Black Lives Matter incident that, for them, is just a moment in time. If it mattered, it would have mattered to them before. It shouldn’t have taken George Floyd to die for them to realize that their name had a slave reference to it." She adds that their PR move is "an opportunity for them to pretend they’re not racist or pretend this means something to them. If it did, they would’ve done some research. And I’m not happy about that."