{"id":2074227,"date":"2025-10-07T07:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2074227"},"modified":"2025-10-07T07:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:05:43","slug":"lefsetz-letter-blog-archive-zach-bryans-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lefsetz-letter-blog-archive-zach-bryans-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Lefsetz Letter \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Zach Bryan\u2019s New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAnd ICE is gonna come, bust down your door<\/p>\n<p>Try to build a house no one builds no more<\/p>\n<p>But I got a\u00a0telephone<\/p>\n<p>Kids are all scared and all alone<\/p>\n<p>The Boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling<\/p>\n<p>The middle finger\u2019s rising and it won\u2019t stop showing<\/p>\n<p>I got some bad news<\/p>\n<p>The fading of the red, white and blue\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard about the South Carolina judge whose house exploded?<\/p>\n<p>By time you read this, they may have more news, but as of now\u2026there\u2019s no knowledge of the cause. Then again, how often do houses explode, especially those of people who have been subjected to death threats?<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m just about through with my web roundup, my three sets of tab groups in Safari, and Drudge (a font of great links) sends me to this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018ICE Is Gonna Come Bust Down Your Door&#8217;\u201d \u2013 Zach Bryan Teases Politicallly-Charged New Song, \u2018Bad News&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/bit.ly\/3ILslJY<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent research says the song is entitled \u201cThe Fading of the Red, White and Blue,\u201d but who knows for sure, BECAUSE IT\u2019S NOT OUT YET!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only a snippet, and you can see Zach playing the guitar and singing here, and you should:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zach Bryan - Bad News [Unreleased] #ZachBryan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-IdmlcT1Obw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is the difference between a pro and an amateur, someone doing it from the heart as opposed to someone trying to cash in. With this one snippet, Zach Bryan has eclipsed all of Jesse Welles\u2019s clips\u2026 This is not a lark, this is dead serious, from one of the biggest acts in the land.<\/p>\n<p>But no one e-mailed me about it. Doing research, I find that \u201cBillboard\u201d did cover it\u2026but that magazine doesn\u2019t know whether it\u2019s consumer or industry-facing and it\u2019s no longer a must-read. As for hitsdailydouble\u2026I didn\u2019t see it there, then again\u2026Bryan wasn\u2019t paying them for promotion, so\u2026<\/p>\n<p>My point here is news bubbles up from the underground. There\u2019s a lot of discussion of this new song on reddit. But as of now, the general public can miss it.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been following the rollout of Taylor Swift\u2019s new album?<\/p>\n<p>I think she\u2019s review-proof, but there\u2019s a lot of fodder here for her to react to on her next album.<\/p>\n<p>First I read Amanda Petrusich\u2019s erudite take in \u201cThe New Yorker\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Why Does Taylor Swift Think She\u2019s Cursed? \u2013 \u2018The Life of a Showgirl,\u2019 the artist\u2019s new album, is full of cringey sexual innuendo, millennial perfectionism, and an obsession with haters that wears thin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/10\/13\/why-does-taylor-swift-think-shes-cursed<\/p>\n<p>Now wait just a minute, weren\u2019t essentially all of the initial reviews positive?<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I point you to this clip from marketing guru Rory Sutherland, wherein he claims you get more independent thinking from working class people than those further up the economic food chain. He says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe upper middle class in the U.K. is reputationally paranoid. Is incapable of expressing opinions that might get them disinvited from dinner parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mindset.to.mills\/video\/7556574404763864342\" data-video-id=\"7556574404763864342\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@mindset.to.mills\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@mindset.to.mills?refer=embed\">@mindset.to.mills<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Rory Sutherland argues the middle class are more constrained by social pressure than the working class or aristocrats, calling it \u201creputational paranoia\u201d and likening it to \u201cmental nudism.\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"rorysutherland\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/rorysutherland?refer=embed\">#rorysutherland<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"class\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/class?refer=embed\">#class<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"independentthinking\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/independentthinking?refer=embed\">#independentthinking<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"psychology\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/psychology?refer=embed\">#Psychology<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"socialpressure\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/socialpressure?refer=embed\">#socialpressure<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"? pop! (tapping the mouth with a hand)(912415) - LEOPARD\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/pop-tapping-the-mouth-with-a-hand-912415-6906958162219010050?refer=embed\">? pop! (tapping the mouth with a hand)(912415) \u2013 LEOPARD<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Watch this clip, really.<\/p>\n<p>And my point here is all the initial reviewers who were positive, were they afraid to be on the wrong side of the fence, wary of being denigrated not only by the Swifties, but their compatriots in the field?<\/p>\n<p>Because days later you get this:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, everyone can say bad things about Taylor Swift\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.celebrity.land.com\/2025\/10\/06\/entertainment\/being-mean-to-taylor-swift<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Swift is review-proof. The legs of the album will depend upon hit singles. There\u2019s no middle ground in the Swift camp, you\u2019re either in or you\u2019re out, and it doesn\u2019t matter what anybody has to say about her and her work. But the casual listener\/fan can be exposed to a hit track and listen some more.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, we\u2019re talking here about pop music, hit music, Spotify Top 50 music. That\u2019s what the business cares about, that\u2019s what you read about on hitsdailydouble.com<\/p>\n<p>Then again, Zach Bryan is signed to Warner, and has had arguably two hits, but that doesn\u2019t mean you sell the most tickets ever to a gig, 112,408 at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.<\/p>\n<p>Are the hoi polloi aware of this date?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say many more are aware of Taylor Swift\u2019s new album, but\u2026where is the heart of today\u2019s music world, is it pop or\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Or to quote Don Henley, \u201cwe haven\u2019t had that spirit here since 1969.\u201d But if Zach Bryan throws it all down, not some ancient classic rocker, does that signify a renaissance, a changing of the guard from the pop dross of the past decades?<\/p>\n<p>And Zach Bryan isn\u2019t easily claimed by one political tribe or the other, after all, he served in the Marines. But here, he\u2019s definitely taking a swing at ICE\u2026 Which has more press than any act, it\u2019s number one with a bullet in the news right now. If you heard Governor Pritzker\u2019s speech today\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But this is just a snippet, that\u2019s all. But Zach\u2019s audience is hungry for everything he does.<\/p>\n<p>But isn\u2019t he worried about BACKLASH?<\/p>\n<p>God, you can\u2019t get a musician with traction to stand up to Trump. Tons of nobodies, but they\u2019re just doing it for attention, and when you\u2019ve got nothing, you\u2019ve got nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Are Trumpsters going to burn Zach Bryan records like they did with the Beatles?<\/p>\n<p>Well, there are no records. Sure, there are some physical souvenirs, but everything is available to everyone online, it\u2019s just a click away.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ve got ICE\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And the phone\u2026 You can be informed and broadcast right from your palm.<\/p>\n<p>And the reference to Springsteen and maybe rock being dead, who knows, lyrics are up to the eye of the beholder.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing is for sure, Zach Bryan is disillusioned with America.<\/p>\n<p>And one other thing\u2026 We\u2019re never going to have an overarching protest song like we had in the sixties. That\u2019s not how it works anymore. Everything is niche, including Zach Bryan and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>But this kerfuffle, and it is one online, was all started by just a clip, Zach Bryan and his guitar. There were no co-writers, no remixers, none of the b.s. dominating the Spotify Top 50. Zach didn\u2019t need Max Martin to gain the public\u2019s attention, he could do it all by his lonesome, which hearkens back to those \u201cHotel California\u201d days.<\/p>\n<p>Does the entire song come out and become a national discussion point? Or is it released to a thud and instantly forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>One never knows anymore.<\/p>\n<p>But those who take chances end up the victors. Those evidencing unrestrained humanity, their voice to our ears with no intermediaries, are the winners.<\/p>\n<p>More like this please!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source lefsetz.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd ICE is gonna come, bust down your door Try to build a house no one builds no more But I got a\u00a0telephone Kids are all scared and all alone The Boss stopped bumping, the rock stopped rolling The middle finger\u2019s rising and it won\u2019t stop showing I got some bad news The fading of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074228,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074227\/revisions\/2074228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}