{"id":45870,"date":"2025-10-16T04:33:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=45870"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:04:04","slug":"zach-bryan-talks-about-controversy-about-his-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/zach-bryan-talks-about-controversy-about-his-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan Talks About Controversy About His New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Bryan<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0has addressed the controversy surrounding his new song, \u201cBad News.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The track sparked polarized reactions earlier this week after he shared a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">snippet of the track on Instagram<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0that featured lyrics criticizing ICE and the state of America, with both the White House and Homeland Security condemning it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPWkQ4CEcNp\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan clarified in an Instagram statement that the song\u2019s meaning has been \u201cmisconstrued\u201d and that the complete version provides \u201cfull context that hits on both sides of the aisle.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis shows you how divisive a narrative can be when shoved down our throats through social media.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything. Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We need to find our way back.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryan concluded his statement by asserting he\u2019s neither left nor right, just a 29-year-old trying to make sense of these confusing times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bad News","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":40762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6706,4262],"class_list":["post-45870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bad-news","tag-zach-bryan"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 16:30:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/10\/zach-bryan-talks-about-controversy-about-his-new-song\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45880,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870\/revisions\/45880"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}