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What Are the Motivations for Name Change?

A group from manchester called warsaw changed their name in 19 78 to something they read in a novel called house of dolls. Two american country bands altered their names in the wake of the black lives matter movement. The dixie chicks, who first came to prominence in the late nineties for the wide open spaces, won two grammies in 20 20. They rebranded themselves as the chicks to remove associations with the confederacy that fought the civil war. And at the same time, they released a protest track called march, march which speecs social justice. Have to look at sex pistols. That was not a name chosen to get on to national radio.

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