Country music superstar Zach Bryan is in treacherous waters with Taylor Swift's fan-base after drunkenly posting a preference for Kanye "Ye" West over her on X. The Tuesday night post said: "eagles > chiefs Kanye > Taylor who’s with me" The post also denigrated the Kansas City Chiefs , the football team of Swift's boyfriend, Travis Kelce . It has since been deleted and Bryan has deactivated his X account entirely.

Before going dark, Bryan attempted to save his reputation, posting, "guys I love Taylor, was listening to TTPD ['The Tortured Poets Department'] last night and thank you aimee came on and I drunkenly tweeted that about Kanye. If anyone took it serious please know I love both artists a lot and think we’re in a really beautiful time of music." The song he referred to, "Thank You Aimee," is perceived as a diss track aimed at West's ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, who became involved in Swift and West's longstanding feud in 2017.

One notable line goes, "One day, your kid comes home singin' a song that only us two is gonna know is about you." Kardashian and her daughter, North West, have posted videos using Swift's songs. While Bryan exiled himself from X, he remains active on Instagram .

Very active. Early Thursday morning, he took to the platform, trying to make peace in a series of four Instagram story posts. The first reads: "For the record guys I wasn’t coming for Taylor the other night.

I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong. I know there’s a .