Lady Antebellum Gets Woke, And Suffers The Inevitable Wokeness Result.

So, if you’re a country band who is feeling white guilt over your completely innocent name, and then you change your completely innocent name as a result, it’s really only fitting that you get called out on someone in the black community for it in this deliciously perfect way.

If you’re new to this story, you should know that earlier this week, the band Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A because they were apparently told that the word antebellum (pre-civil war) is super racist, even though they chose it after a home style.

The problem with this ridiculous wokeness?  They didn’t bother to check to see if any musician was already using the name.  And lo and behold, someone IS.  In fact, it’s a black woman in Seattle, who’s gone by Lady A for more than two decades.

Anita White, aka Lady A, has released multiple albums with the Lady A name, and in fact, has another one coming out next month.  And she’s super irritated with the band Lady Antebellum.  She said, “This is my life. Lady A is my brand, I’ve used it for over 20 years, and I’m proud of what I’ve done. 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. It’s 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. You found me on Spotify easily — why couldn’t they?”

THAT Lady A has been a long time warrior against racial injustice, which just adds another delicious layer of woke irony to this entire story. A rep for the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum told Rolling Stone that the “band was not aware of the other artist and plans to reach out to her.”

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

So what does that mean?  They’ll “reach out to her?”  They’ve already changed all their social media to Lady A.  What’s done is done.

But of course, there’s a legal issue here.  From the source:

“It’s about who is first to use a name. Audience size is irrelevant,” says Bob Celestin, a longtime music attorney who’s represented Pusha T and Missy Elliott. “And the question is, does the original Lady A have a trademark registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark office? If she does, she can go ahead and sue Lady Antebellum for infringement. If not, she still has a common law trademark and she can still show that she’s been using the name in commerce — records, posters, tour flyers — for a number of years. She is first to use the mark in commerce, so that gives her a superior right to the name.”

Celestin adds that if two artists who work in different genres end up with the same name, they can reach a coexistence agreement that allows both groups to market music under the name by acknowledging the slim chance for confusion. “But you could say that blues is the foundation of country, so they’re very close in genre, and if they’re close in genre there’s much more confusion in the marketplace,” he says.

Here’s my favorite part.  Anita White, the original Lady A, says she’s not about to give up the name, and that for the band to not even reach out to her yet is an example of “pure privilege.”

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

This so serves the band right.  I hope they have to change their name again, and I hope that they now realize how dumb it is to bend to wokeness.  NO GOOD comes out of this nonsense.  Just keep your damn name and don’t be cowardly idiots.  And if you’re gonna be cowardly idiots, at least have the basic sense to GOOGLE FIRST TO SEE IF SOMEONE IS ALREADY USING YOUR NAME.