Like many Scarlett Johansson fans, we got excited over the actor’s latest venture into the music world with a “super-pop” single entitled “Candy.” Teaming up with four other musicians, the quintet called themselves The Singles. It’s a catchy name, right?
Unfortunately, there’s another band which claimed the name first and has taken issue with Johansson using it. A Detroit-based rock band that’s been calling itself The Singles for more than 15 years is contending that Johansson is infringing on the group’s trademark and has sent a cease-and-desist letter to her representatives.
“I woke up one morning and learned from the news that our band name was literally just taken by someone else as their own,” Vince Frederick, founder of The Singles, said in a statement. “It’s hard to believe that any musician would do something like that to another band. The Singles has been my life for the past 16 years. We have worked so incredibly hard to make it a success.”
Here’s a sampling of their music.
Frederick maintains that his group is established enough that a simple Google search would have informed Johansson that “The Singles” was already spoken for as a band name. With a social media presence and content available on iTunes and SoundCloud, he and his lawyers would appear to have a case for getting Johansson’s group to change its name in the very near future.
