When country band Lady Antebellum changed its name to Lady A last week, it may have caught some fans off guard. Not Boston comedian Bethany Van Delft. On her album “I’m Not A Llama,” released in December, she riffed on the band name’s odious history.
“I don’t even know one song that that band sings,” she says on the track “The Confidence I Want.” “I just know that their name is Lady When There Was Slavery. Right? That’s enough for me. And they chose the name. They chose it. They didn’t have a meeting with, like, a label exec, that went, ‘All right, so we’re almost there, just gotta choose a name. Your name is either Madame Holocaust or Lady Antebellum or no deal.’ That didn’t happen. No one in that band was like, ‘Oh, gosh, holocaust is so specific. Antebellum could just mean we like hoop skirts and mint juleps.’”
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