Country singer Zach Bryan gets a piece of conservative outrage this week for mentioning Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a yet-unreleased song titled “Bad News.” Bryan, who previously said his music isn’t political, shared the new track on Instagram October 3 amid mass-deportation efforts and captioned it “the fading of the red white and blue.”
Below, what Zach Bryan says in his new song and other musicians who have spoken out against ongoing ICE raids .
What does the song say?
In the snippet of the track, posted as a screen recording of the file, he sings, “My friends are all degenerates, but they’re all I got / The generational story of dropping the plot / I heard the cops came / Cocky motherfuckers, ain’t they?” It’s a typical Bryan joint: moody and twangy, sung with we