Country singer Zach Bryan has his tail between his legs as he issues an apology for a since-deleted drunken tweet referencing the long-standing feud between Taylor Swift and Kanye West.
The “Something in the Orange” crooner, 28, apologized via multiple Instagram Stories Thursday morning, two days after tweeting about his fellow Grammy winners.
“Eagles > Chiefs. Kanye > Taylor. Who’s with me?” Bryan tweeted late Tuesday.
The post seemingly incensed the militant fan base of the 34-year-old pop star.
“I wasn’t coming for Taylor the other night,” Bryan said Thursday, adding that he’d been “drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong.”
The nod to the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs was taken as another dig at the “cardigan” singer, given that her boyfriend Travis Kelce is the tight end for the latter, while his older brother, Jason, recently retired from the Eagles.
Bryan acknowledged his awareness of “a lot of stuff that clouds around Ye,” in a not-so-subtle nod to the 47-year-old rapper’s many controversies.
“I was speaking purely musically,” Bryan continued. “I love Taylor’s music and pray you guys know I’m human and tweet stupid things often. Hope one day I can explain this to her. … I’m sorry to any Taylor fans I pissed off or let down. Love you guys and I’m trying my best!”
In a separate Story, Bryan said he’s “been going through a hard time” and was “projecting a little” in his tweet but “just came off as rude and desensitized to Taylor.”
“I respect her so much as a musician that the last thing I want is people thinking I don’t appreciate and love what she has done for music,” he said, before issuing a public service announcement. “Don’t drink and tweet!!”
Though he vowed that was “the last of it,” Bryan continued in two other Stories, the first of which said he was “not saving face here” and then praised Swift as “a force of nature.”
