Zach Bryan, country star, is a person just like the rest of us. He likes to work hard, he likes to play hard, he likes a little drink here and there, he likes drunk-tweeting about Taylor Swift in the middle of the night.
That last one, not such a good idea, as Zach Bryan is learning the hard way.
The country star took to X (which we all still call Twitter) this week to post about some of his preferences in life, like the Philadelphia Eagles being better than the Kansas City Chiefs and Kanye West being better than Taylor Swift.
Say what now, son?
The backlash was swift, severe and predictable – not just for the hate on Taylor Swift, but for the glorification of Kanye West, AKA Ye, whose troubled past makes it hard for most people to think that anyone still likes him.
Zach Bryan deactivated his X account after taking a shot at Taylor Swift, and decided to try and make up for it on his Instagram Story with a three-page apology.
“For the record guys I wasn’t coming for Taylor the other night,” he posted. “I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong.”
That’s … not how the tweet read to us or anyone else, apparently, but ok. Genie’s out of the bottle, you’ve pissed off the entire Taylor Swift fandom, now what?
“Hope one day I can explain this to her. Twitter gets me in trouble too much and I’d say it’s best I stay off it,” he groveled wrote.
Same, Zach Bryan, same. But jokes aside, there’s a real problem with drunken posting on social media, and his Taylor Swift slip-up shines a renewed spotlight on it. (It’s also not the first time this week someone got in trouble for saying utterly stupid stuff on X.)
The Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs published a paper in 2018 looking at college binge drinkers, and scientists found that binge drinkers were more likely to post drunk and to have a stronger intensity of feeling about social media.
Take it from Zach Bryan – pick up a whiskey, put down the phone. Better yet, put it in a drawer in another room. No one wants to wake up being Public Taylor Swift Enemy #1.