{"id":2076660,"date":"2025-10-08T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2076660"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:52:08","slug":"zach-bryan-sparks-controversy-with-new-music-that-mentions-ice-raids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zach-bryan-sparks-controversy-with-new-music-that-mentions-ice-raids\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan sparks controversy with new music that mentions ICE raids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span><strong>Zach Bryan<\/strong> recently sparked controversy after sharing a clip with new music that mentions U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The singer-songwriter made headlines over the weekend after sharing the clip on his official <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DPWkQ4CEcNp\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MW80OTB3enh6c2ZxcQ==\"><span>Instagram<\/span><\/a><span> account Friday. The lyrics in the audio clip reference ICE raids, as well as the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDidn\u2019t wake up dead or in jail\/ Some out of town boys been giving us hell\/ I got some bad news\/ I woke up missing you,\u201d Bryan sings in the clip. \u201cMy friends are all degenerates, but they\u2019re all I got\/ The generational story of dropping the plot\/ I heard the cops came\/ cocky motherf******, ain\u2019t they.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continues, \u201cICE is gonna come bust down your door\/ Try and build a house no one builds no more\/ But I got a telephone\/ Kids are all scared and all alone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The clip concludes, \u201cThe bars stopped bumpin\u2019\/ The rock stopped rolling\/ The middle finger rising, and it won\u2019t stop showing\/ Got some bad news\/ The fading of the red, white and blue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Echoing the final lyrics, Bryan captioned the post, \u201cThe fading of the red white and blue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The clip was posted as President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2018s administration continues its immigration crackdown across the country, with ICE carrying out a series of immigration raids in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bryan\u2019s lyrics have split the internet, with some celebrating them, and others criticizing the Grammy winner and U.S. Navy veteran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Tricia McLaughlin<\/strong>, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security, reacted to Bryan\u2019s new audio clip on X, writing, \u201cStick to Pink Skies, dude,\u201d a reference to Bryan\u2019s hit song \u201cPink Skies,\u201d from his 2024 album,<\/span><em><span> The Great American Bar Scene<\/span><\/em><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.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 ruralradio.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Bryan recently sparked controversy after sharing a clip with new music that mentions U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids. The singer-songwriter made headlines over the weekend after sharing the clip on his official Instagram account Friday. The lyrics in the audio clip reference ICE raids, as well as the police. \u201cDidn\u2019t wake up dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2076661,"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-2076660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Zach-Bryan-sparks-controversy-with-new-music-that-mentions-ICE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076660","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=2076660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076662,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076660\/revisions\/2076662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}