We just reported on Monday that Scarlett Johansson had teamed up with Este Haim to form a "super pop" super group but it seems they've run into some legal troubles early as another band named The Singles has filed a cease-and-desist, according to NME.
"I don't understand it. Our band, The Singles, has an account on nearly all social media sites and our music is available in record shops, on iTunes, SoundCloud, and other websites," said Vincent Frederick, Just a simple search on Google would have revealed that "The Singles" was already a band name being used by another pop/rock band—our band."
Indeed, Frederick's The Singles has been a thing for what seems to be 16 years, whereas Johansson and company just up and took it. Then again, as Stereogum points out, you shouldn't be too surprised when someone accidentally borrows your "utterly generic band name."
In Frederick's defense however, it looks like the original iteration of The Singles was at least somewhat well-established, at least enough so to go on tour with acts such as Bass Drum of Death. We're a tad more sympathetic to its calls for a cease-and-desist knowing that despite having been in the business for 16 years, the mere fact that Johansson is in the second band will make Frederick's act the lesser of the two Singles. We'd be a little peeved as well.
If the group featuring Johansson and Haim—as well as Julia Haltigan, Holly Miranda and Kendra Morris—has to change it's name, we're just saying: pretty sure that "Church of Latter Day Singles" has not been taken.
How long the neu-Singles will be around might cause the problem to go away. Although the group released a song, "Candy," on Monday, Haim is also reportedly busy in the studio working on its next album, so who knows if The Singles project will ever get out on the road or in the studio for a full album.
