You knew she would have to chime in.
It’s been five months now since the messy breakup between Zach Bryan and Barstool Sports personality Brianna Chickenfry, and for his part it seems that Zach has moved on. He hasn’t addressed the breakup publicly since his initial post asking for privacy for both of them, and debuted his new girlfriend on social media a couple months ago.
Brianna, on the other hand, can’t help but take shots at her ex-boyfriend every chance she gets.
And I get it. It sounds like she went through a lot during their time together, and she reportedly turned down $12 million to sign an NDA after they broke up so no doubt she wants to tell her story any chance she gets. But at this point it seems like it might be time to just move on…
Well Zach has found himself in the middle of another firestorm over the past few days, despite recently selling his publishing catalog for a whopping $350 million and signing with Warner Records for at least two more albums.
After the deal was announced, John Moreland (one of Zach’s former collaborators) took a shot at him on social media, seemingly out of nowhere.
Moreland appeared on “Memphis; The Blues” from Zach’s 2024 album The Great American Bar Scene. Which is why it was surprising to see the post from Moreland criticizing Zach:
“$350 M is a lot of money to pay for the f***** off-brand version of me. Y‘all have a great day”
It was a little weird to see Moreland take such a public shot at Zach, which led some (including us) to wonder whether it was just two friends joking around, busting each others’ balls a little bit, or whether it was truly a shot at Zach.
But then Zach made it clear that it wasn’t just a friendly jab when he took to his own Instagram to address the comments from Moreland, confirming that he was blindsided and announcing that he would be removing the collab with Moreland from his album:
“yooo just saw this from an artist I’ve always respected and supported. Not trying to be dramatic but refuse to have anyone with a problem with me on my records. Replacing Memphis the Blues. If it goes down for a bit just know this is the reason!
No hard feelings! Confused as s**t, Tulsans look out for Tulsans!”
He then followed it up with one last comment:
“Last thing I say on it! Not partial to arguing with butt hurt grown men”
Zach also clarified that he would be re-releasing the song once Moreland was removed.
Of course we’ve heard a lot of stories about Zach in the past, especially from his ex-girlfriend, so the natural question was raised: What exactly did Zach do for Moreland to call him out like that?
And in a video posted to his Instagram story on Saturday night, Moreland gave some background on why he wasn’t a Zach Bryan fan.
He explained that he hadn’t met Zach when he was asked to be on the album:
“Just a really big artist from where I’m from asking me to be on a record, cool.”
Moreland says that he didn’t have the greatest impression of Zach after their first meeting, but says at that point it was “no big deal.”
Afterwards though, he hung out with him a few more times, and…well, I’ll let Moreland explain it from here:
“At this point I’ve hung out with him five, six times. I don’t like this motherf*****. Am I supposed to be upset? If I was asked to be on the album today I wouldn’t do it.
I don’t want to be on an album with a dude who is a d***head to my wife and my friends right in front of me every time I see him. I don’t want to be on an album with a dude who I’ve heard tell borderline racist jokes more than once. I don’t want to be on an album with a dude who brings a 19-year old girl in the bar, and then when they tell him she can’t be in there, looks at me like I’m supposed to have his f***** back. I don’t like that person.
That’s who thinks I’m an a**hole? Fine. As far as I’m concerned, getting kicked off a Zach Bryan album is way f****** cooler than being on a Zach Bryan album.”
Fair enough.
Well after Moreland told his side of the story, Brianna took to Instagram to share a not-so-subtle shot at her ex-boyfriend, posting his song “Break My Heart Sweetly” to her story and making clear whose side she was on (as if there were any doubt).
And like I said, I get it. She obviously didn’t have a great relationship with Zach, and she wants to take petty shots at him any time she can. But at some point, it seems like it’s time to move on and stop posting about your ex-boyfriend.
Although it’s hard to be mad at anybody listening to John Moreland – even if you’re only doing it out of spite.
