Zach Bryan “drunkenly” tweets that he likes Kanye West better than Taylor Swift – and also insults Travis Kelce

Why do you have to be so mean?

Zach Bryan insulted Taylor Swift and her boyfriend Travis Kelce on X (formerly Twitter) while allegedly drunk on Tuesday.

First, the 28-year-old country singer tweeted “Eagles > Chiefs” in reference to Kelce’s NFL team.

Bryan then took sides in the years-long rivalry between Swift and Kanye West by tweeting, “Kanye > Taylor.”

“Who is with me?” He finished his contribution.

Unsurprisingly, Bryan immediately faced backlash from Swift’s massive fan base.

On Wednesday, he deleted his X account and apologized on his Instagram Stories.

“For the record people, I didn’t come for Taylor the other night,” Bryan wrote alongside a screenshot of Taylor and Post Malone’s song “Fortnight.”

“I drunkenly compared two records and it came up with an error,” he continued. “I know there are a lot of things around Ye, and I was speaking purely musically. I love Taylor’s music and pray that you know that I’m human and often tweet stupid things. I hope I can explain this to her one day.”

Bryan added: “Twitter gets me into too much trouble and I would say it’s best if I stay away from it. I’m sorry to any Taylor fans I’ve upset or disappointed. I love you and I’m doing my best!”

On his next slide, which included a screenshot of Swift’s song “The Albatross,” Bryan explained that he was “going through a hard time” in his life and was “projecting” when he tweeted about Swift.

“It just seemed rude and desensitized to Taylor,” the “Sun to Me” singer continued. “I respect her so much as a musician that the last thing I want is for people to think I don’t appreciate and love what she’s done for music.”

He concluded this message by saying, “Don’t drink and don’t tweet!”

Bryan shared a third post about Swift, calling the 14-time Grammy winner “a force of nature since we grew up.”

“I admire that. I’m going to listen to this record now,” he wrote alongside a screenshot of Swift’s song “Castles Crumbling,” which features Paramore singer Hayley Williams.

“I never want people to think that I ever harbor any hint of malice or meanness towards anyone, that’s why I say all this,” Bryan added.

As Bryan mentioned, there’s been bad blood between Swift and West, 47, since 2009, when Ye took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards during Swift’s acceptance speech and declared that Beyoncé “had one of the best videos ever.”

In 2016, West mentioned Swift in his song “Famous.”

Swift claimed that she was not aware of the line “I made that bh famous” from the song. West’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, seemingly posted the entire conversation on her Snapchat, which seemed to incriminate Swift.

In 2020, the real version of the call was leaked online by an unknown party and confirmed to Swift.

“They have a completely fabricated frame job in an illegally recorded phone conversation that Kim Kardashian edited and then released to tell everyone I was a liar,” Swift said of the incident to Time Magazine after being named Person of the Year 2023 was appointed year.

She called the drama with West one of the “most terrible things that happened to her.”