FKA Twigs Countersued by Band the Twigs Over Stage Name

Less than two months after FKA Twigs filed a lawsuit, the Twigs have answered with their own. Twin sisters Laura Good and Linda Good, who make up the band, are now countersuing Tahliah Barnett for trademark infringement. They want a court to block her from using the stage name entirely.

Barnett’s original complaint, filed in March, said the duo knew about her use of the name since 2013. She claimed she offered $15,000 for coexistence and they declined. Then, in May 2024, the band sent cease-and-desist letters, threatened litigation, and demanded a seven-figure payout to walk away from their claims. Barnett’s suit called it an effort to “weaponize” weak trademark assertions.

In their Monday, May 11 counterclaim, the sisters argue that after Barnett released her 2019 album Magdelene, she began dropping the “FKA” in certain appearances. They say she deliberately used her celebrity to flood the market and overwrite the band’s own history with the word “Twigs.” The complaint seeks unspecified damages for unfair competition and an injunction that would bar Barnett from performing or releasing music under FKA Twigs.

Neither side’s representatives immediately responded to a request for comment. The dispute pushes a question that rarely finds a clean answer: what happens when a stage name becomes famous, and the people who held it first are still trying to be heard.