Country Star Zach Bryan Apologizes For 'Rude' Taylor Swift Remarks

Country singer Zach Bryan does not want bad blood with Taylor Swift or her fans. 

On Thursday, the I Remember Everything singer apologized to Swift for remarks he has since described as rude and desensitized.

Bryan had mentioned the Bad Blood singer in a Tuesday post on X, formerly Twitter, in which he appeared to diss her by comparing her to Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. He also seemingly took a jab at the Kansas City Chiefs the NFL team Swifts boyfriend, Travis Kelce, plays for.

Eagles > chiefs, he wrote , followed by: Kanye > Taylor. 

Whos with me, he added.

Bryan wrote on X the following day to say that he loves Swift, Variety reported. He said his previous tweet was simply him drunkenly tweeting about Ye after listening to Swifts song thank you aimee a rumored dig at Ye and his ex-wife Kim Kardashian .

His X account was deactivated amid the backlash . 

Bryan shared several lengthy posts on his Instagram Stories about the ordeal on Thursday. 

For the record guys I wasnt coming for Taylor the other night, he wrote. I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong. I know theres a lot of stuff that clouds around Ye and I was speaking purely musically.

I love Taylors music and pray you guys know Im human and tweet stupid things often, he continued, before later adding: Im sorry to any Taylor fans I pissed off or let her down.

Bryan said in the posts that he has had a difficult year and that hes been trying to cope.

I think I was projecting a little, he said in one post. To be completely honest, it just came off as rude and desensitized to Taylor.

Dont drink and tweet. Dont drink and tweet!! he added. 

Swift and Ye have had a well-documented yearslong feud that began when Ye ran onstage to protest Swifts big win at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards .

Fans of Swift have speculated that her new song thanK you aIMee is intentionally stylized so that the capital letters spell out KIM, in reference to Kardashian.

In 2016, the reality TV star publicly shared portions of a recorded phone call between Swift and Ye in an effort to prove Swift had completely approved of lyrics that mentioned her in Yes song Famous a claim that Swift has denied.

Last month, Swift dropped a live version of thanK you aIMee that capitalizes YE in the title an apparent reference to the rapper.