Zach Bryan ‘Drunkenly’ Expresses Preference for Kanye West Over Taylor Swift, Then Apologizes and Deactivates X Account

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Zach Bryan has ghosted X (formerly Twitter), at least for now, after stirring up a hornet’s next by tweeting out a preference for Kanye West over Taylor Swift — a post he subsequently apologized for, saying he was drunk at the time.

The superstar singer-songwriter’s tweets sometimes go back and forth across the line between playful and outrightly provocative, and Tuesday night’s Ye/Swift tweet was clearly designed to get a rise out of people, however mirthfully it may have been intended.

The original tweet first offered a mild diss of Swift boyfriend Travis Kelce’s football team — “eagles > chiefs” — and then followed that with “Kanye > Taylor… Who’s with me.” Between Swift’s status as the most popular singer in the world and Ye’s as the music world’s most vilified antisemite, Bryan surely knew he was going to get a reaction, and he got one.

Wednesday, he deactivated his account, but not before offering a mea culpa before going dark on the platform. “Guys I love Taylor,” Bryan claimed in his followup tweet.