History YMMV / LadyA

** "Need You Now", of course. While it's basically just about "booty calls", it can be interpreted as a sad heartbreak song between two angry partners.

** "On a Night Like This," from the 2019 album ''Ocean,'' is a cover of Christian artist Dave Barnes' song from 2000. Barnes co-wrote "Be Patient with My Love" from that same album and also Lady A's 2021 single "Like a Lady."-

* AudienceAlienatingEra: ''Golden'' and ''747'' both sold poorly and their singles largely underperformed on the charts, due to a combination of poor single choices and a forced attempt at shedding the "sleepy" sound of ''Golden''.
* CoveredUp: Eric Paslay, co-writer of the album cut "Friday Night" from ''Own the Night'', had a Top 5 hit in 2014 with his own version.
* EpicRiff: The piano notes at the start of "Need You Now".

* OvershadowedByControversy: The band renaming themselves to "Lady A" in 2020 caused some to decry them for virtue signaling. It got worse when a black singer from Seattle named Anita White, who also recorded under the name Lady A, caught wind of this. The band initially intended to reach a compromise with White, but the two parties instead got entangled in lawsuits against each other, with White citing the band's white privilege and destruction of her brand name in particular. These incidents cast a shadow over ''What a Song Can Do'', causing it to be their worst-performing album to date.

* DorkAge: ''Golden'' and ''747'' both sold poorly and their singles largely underperformed on the charts, due to a combination of poor single choices and a forced attempt at shedding the "sleepy" sound of ''Golden''.

* NeverLiveItDown: The name change actually got them more flak for racial insensitivity than it took off them, because within a few months they'd filed legal action against a black singer who'd been going by Lady A for 20 years and didn't want to give the name up.

* SophomoreSlump: Averted about as hard as possible, thanks to "Need You Now."

* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: The band was originally known as Lady Antebellum, but changed their name to Lady A due to its reference to the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Antebellum Southern United States]] in the wake of the George Floyd protests in 2020. It was one of two country music bands who changed their names alongside The Dixie Chicks, who changed their name to simply Music/TheChicks.