In response, Lady A the band filed a lawsuit to assert its right to use the name. And the case of the former Dixie Chicks is instructive here. In 2003, the group was effectively exiled from the genre when Natalie Maines expressed her displeasure with President Bush. This was country music’s most jingoistic era, and its most overtly politically conservative one. Even when it released a defiant comeback album in 2006, it still went by the Dixie Chicks.

Source: New York Times July 15, 2020 18:22 UTC