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Zach Bryan, one of the biggest stars in US country music, has been criticised by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over a new song in which he sings about immigration raids by Ice.<\/p>\n
The DHS\u2019s assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, told Bryan to \u201cstick to Pink Skies, dude,\u201d referring to one of his previous hits, in comments reported by the Independent. The DHS also made a provocative post on X, laying another Bryan song, Revival, over footage of Ice officers arresting migrants, with the caption \u201cwe\u2019re having an All Night Revival\u201d.<\/p>\n
Using rhetoric that is characteristic of its public messaging during Donald Trump\u2019s second term in office, the department is responding to a snippet of unreleased new song Bryan posted on social media earlier this week, featuring the lyrics: \u201cI heard the cops came, cocky motherfuckers ain\u2019t they? \/ And Ice is gonna come bust down your door \/ Try to build a house no one builds no more \/ Well I got a telephone \/ Kids are all scared and all alone\u201d.<\/p>\n
Bryan has elaborated on the song, presumably titled The Fading of the Red White and Blue after he used those words as a caption alongside the song snippet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything,\u201d he wrote on Instagram. \u201cWhen you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle. Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find our way back \u2026 Left wing or right wing we\u2019re all one bird and American. To be clear I\u2019m on neither of these radical sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
The song also more generally laments discord in American society, as Bryan sings: \u201cThe middle fingers rising and it won\u2019t stop showing \/ Got some bad news \/ The fading of the red white and blue.\u201d<\/p>\n Bryan, 29, was born to parents in the US Navy, and himself served in the Navy for eight years as a younger man, writing and uploading his earliest songs while enlisted. \u201cI am so proud to have served in a country where we can all speak freely and converse amongst each other without getting doxed or accosted on the internet or worse; the violence and heartbreak we\u2019ve faced in the last few months!\u201d he wrote in another message this week.<\/p>\n Bryan self-released his debut album DeAnn in 2019, and broke through with American Heartbreak in 2022 which reached the US top five. His self-titled follow up reached No 1 in 2023, and his latest album The Great American Bar Scene reached No 2 and is certified platinum. He also topped the US singles chart in 2023 with his Kacey Musgraves duet I Remember Everything.<\/p>\n Earlier this month he broke the record for the highest attendance at a ticketed concert in US history, with 112,408 concertgoers, beating another country star, George Strait, who who drew 110,905 to a 2024 concert. Bryan\u2019s huge gig also broke the record for merchandise sales, shifting $5m worth of goods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.theguardian.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zach Bryan, one of the biggest stars in US country music, has been criticised by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over a new song in which he sings about immigration raids by Ice. The DHS\u2019s assistant secretary of public affairs, Tricia McLaughlin, told Bryan to \u201cstick to Pink Skies, dude,\u201d referring to one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2078067,"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-2078066","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\/Country-superstar-Zach-Bryan-criticised-by-US-Homeland-Security-over.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078066","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=2078066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078068,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078066\/revisions\/2078068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2078067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}