Why do you have to be so mean?
Zach Bryan dissed Taylor Swift and her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, on X (formerly Twitter) while allegedly drunk on Tuesday.
First, the 28-year-old country singer tweeted: “eagles > chiefs,” referring to Kelce’s NFL team.
Bryan then took sides in Swift and Kanye West’s years-long feud by tweeting: “Kanye > Taylor.”
“Who is with me?” he concluded his post.
Unsurprisingly, Bryan faced immediate backlash from Swift’s massive fanbase.
On Wednesday, she deleted her X account and issued an apology on her Instagram Stories.
“For the record guys, I wasn’t going to go see Taylor the other night,” Bryan wrote alongside a screenshot of Taylor and Post Malone’s song “Fortnight.”
“I was drunk comparing two records and it didn’t come out right,” he continued. “I know there’s a lot of things that don’t add up with Ye and I was just talking about music. I love Taylor’s music and I pray you know I’m human and I tweet stupid stuff often. I hope one day I can explain this to her.”
Bryan added: “Twitter gets me in a lot of trouble and I would say it’s best for me to stay away from it. I’m sorry to any Taylor fans I’ve made angry or disappointed. I love you all and I’m doing my best!”
In his next slide, which included a screenshot of Swift’s song “The Albatross,” Bryan explained that he’s “been going through a rough time” in his life and that he was “projecting” when he tweeted about Swift.
“It just came across as rude and insensitive towards Taylor,” the “Sun to Me” singer continued. “I respect her so much as a musician that the last thing I want is for people to think that I don’t appreciate or love what she’s done for music.”
He concluded that message by writing: “Don’t drink while tweeting!”
Bryan shared a third post about Swift, calling the 14-time Grammy winner “a force of nature since we were kids.”
“I admire him. I’m going to listen to this album now,” she wrote alongside a screenshot of Swift’s song “Castles Crumbling,” which features Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams.
“I never want people to think that I have an ounce of malice or meanness towards anyone, never, that’s why I say all this,” Bryan added.
As Bryan mentioned, Swift and West, 47, have been on bad terms since 2009, when Ye infamously… She took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards during Swift’s acceptance speech and declared that Beyoncé “had one of the best videos of all time.”
In 2016, West mentioned Swift in his song “Famous.”
Swift claimed she was not told about the “I made that b***h famous” line in the song. West’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, posted what appeared to be the entire conversation on her Snapchat, which seemed to incriminate Swift.
In 2020, the real version of the call was leaked online by an unknown person and claimed responsibility for Swift’s actions.
“They have a completely fabricated story, an illegally recorded phone call, that Kim Kardashian edited and then released to tell everyone that I was a liar,” Swift told Time magazine of the incident after being named its 2023 Person of the Year.
She called the drama with West one of the “most horrendous things that ever happened to her.”
