Lady A already exists and she’s a black blues musician who not only isn’t amused at the appropriation of her name but isn’t amused with the band who took it pretty much at all.
Rolling Stone reports that the name Lady A is very much taken by Anita White, who works for Seattle Public Utilities by day. White told the outlet on Friday that Lady Antebellum is “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.”
The band says they weren’t aware of the precursor Lady A, which leads me to ask once again: do people not know about search engines? So much for the goodwill I afforded the band just yesterday.