The use of it by both acts dates even further back - to 2006, in the band’s case, when they began using it as a nickname upon coming to national attention in White’s case, to the turn of the century, when she was using it for her more modest gigs in the Northwest. The lawsuit filed by the group formerly known as Lady Antebellum contends that the band applied for the legal trademark “Lady A” in 2010 and was granted it in 2011, even though White released her first album in 2010. And that might require you to give up something because I am not going to be erased.” If you want to be an advocate or an ally, you help those who you’re oppressing.
She continued, “But here we go again with another white person trying to take something from a Black person, even though they say they’re trying to help. Five million dollars is nothing, and I’m actually worth more than that, regardless of what they think.” Since the demand was made by her attorneys on July 3 - and apparently quickly rejected by the Nashville group’s attorneys - “I was quiet for two weeks,” White says in the article, “because I was trying to believe that it was going to be okay and that they would realize that it would be easier to just change their name, or pay me for my name. The other $5 million was to be donated to the charities of her choice, including organizations that provide support to other independent Black artists.” Her plan, she told me, was to use $5 million to rebrand, to start over as an artist with more than 20 years in the game - but without the high-powered label and management machine of a Lady Antebellum. Writes Williams, “White says that it was simply a request for the necessary resources to support herself and, perhaps more importantly, the entire Black community.
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