The trio of Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley, and Dave Haywood released their first album in 2008, just a matter of months before the United States of America elected Barack Obama to be its forty-fourth president. Back then, Obama's ascension to the presidency was hailed as proof that the United States had become a "post-racial society," a notion that seems quaint in 2020, when the social rights movement Black Lives Matter reached a boiling part after simmering on the back burner during the first years of the Donald Trump administration. The civil protests of June 2020 prompted Scott, Kelley, and Haywood to change the name of their band, shortening Lady Antebellum to Lady A.
Their music is banal. Their name the banality of evil.