Zach Bryan posts about Taylor Swift and Kanye West and apologizes

After incurring Swiftie's ire, Zach Bryan knows the dangers of drinking and posting all too well.

The 28-year-old country star released a lengthy apology on Thursday after facing backlash for a post on X in which he claimed Ye, formerly Kanye West, was better than Taylor Swift. In Tuesday's brief X post, he also said the Philadelphia Eagles are superior to the Kansas City Chiefs, the team where Swift's boyfriend Travis Kelce plays.

“Eagles > Chiefs,” Bryan wrote in his original X-post, according to screenshots shared by Variety and Rolling Stone. “Kanye > Taylor. Who's on my side?”

The singer of “Something in the Orange” has since deactivated his X account. However, on Thursday he apologized for the message in his Instagram story.

“To the record people: I wasn't here for Taylor the other day,” he wrote. “I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong. I know there's a lot of stuff revolving around Ye and I was speaking purely musically.”

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He continued, “I love Taylor's music and pray you know that I'm only human and often tweet stupid things. Hopefully one day I can explain that to her. Twitter gets me in trouble too often and I'd say it's best if I stay away from it. I'm sorry to any Taylor fans I've upset or disappointed.”