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In a late-night mea culpa, Zach Bryan found himself backpedaling after a controversial tweet that pitted music giants against each other. The 28-year-old country star publicly addressed his comparison of Kanye West and Taylor Swift on social media, attributing the mishap to a mix of booze and bad judgment.
“For the record guys I wasn’t coming for Taylor the other night. I was drunkenly comparing two records and it came out wrong,” Bryan wrote on Thursday, September 19 via his Instagram Stories, overlaying his text on a screenshot of the 34-year-old pop sensation’s track “Fortnight,” featuring Post Malone.
The “Something in the Orange” singer admitted his since-deleted post, which read: “Eagles > Chiefs, Kanye …