Overview
- Tahliah Barnett, known as FKA Twigs, filed a lawsuit against the twin‑sister band The Twigs seeking a court declaration that she can register and keep using her stage name and an order stopping further cease‑and‑desist letters.
- Her complaint says the band resumed pressure in 2024 with new letters that threatened an injunction to block her name and demanded a significant seven‑figure payout to drop their objections.
- The filing traces the dispute to 2013 and 2014, when Barnett offered $15,000 for peaceful co‑existence and then adopted the FKA twigs moniker after an earlier challenge from the duo.
- Barnett argues consumer confusion is unlikely and cites a wide gap in reach, pointing to her millions of monthly Spotify listeners and hundreds of millions of YouTube views versus the band’s much smaller audience.
- Rolling Stone details the legal claims, TMZ first flagged the suit, and representatives for Barnett declined comment while The Twigs did not respond to requests for comment.