{"id":2236084,"date":"2026-01-15T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2236084"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:30:43","slug":"zach-bryan-releases-new-song-pocket-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/zach-bryan-releases-new-song-pocket-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Bryan Releases New Song &#8216;Pocket Change&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"a-article-grid__header_top lrv-u-flex lrv-u-align-items-center lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-display-inline-block\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Blighted Side of Life\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Fresh off of re-recording his latest album acoustically to stave off whiners, Bryan can&#8217;t shake his doldrums on sparse new song<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhat\u2019s the opposite of a feel-good hit of the summer? Well, just listen to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/zach-bryan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zach-bryan\" data-tag=\"zach-bryan\">Zach Bryan<\/a>\u2018s latest song, \u201cPocket Change,\u201d which just arrived in midwinter. In just under four minutes, the troubadour narrates the tale of a doomed couple surviving a meagre existence in a town that will never change, all orchestrated to an elegiac reel on his Gibson acoustic. Bryan left the song off his latest album, <em>With Heaven on Top<\/em>, which came out last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe man in the song is addicted to his ego, and Bryan describes the woman\u2019s aroma several times: her breath \u201csmells like cigarettes and sex and wine,\u201d and he reminds us that \u201cshe still reeks like wine\u201d in two choruses. \u201cJust another drunk man with his white trash version of war,\u201d Bryan sings. \u201cHad a wife, had a life, had a baby on the way, then he lost it, \u2019cause the only change he\u2019ll ever know sits in his front pocket.\u201d The time of year isn\u2019t clear from the lyrics, but there is a reference to New Year\u2019s Day, which suggests the sun won\u2019t be rising anytime soon for the couple, who still smell remarkably by the end of the ditty. It\u2019s even darker in the video of him singing the song, which he ends by taking a puff of a cigarette (a smell he apparently knows well).<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zach Bryan - Pocket Change\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNnSBgrC4Zo?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<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tBryan\u2019s song might well be a preview of Bryan\u2019s promised acoustic edition of the 25-song <em>With Heaven on Top<\/em>, which featured about two dozen musicians on it. \u201cI\u2019m assuming this record is just like all the other ones and there\u2019s gonna be a billion people saying it\u2019s over produced and shitty so I sat down in a room by myself and recorded all the songs acoustically so I didn\u2019t have to hear everyone whine about more stuff,\u201d he wrote on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/zach-bryan-drops-acoustic-version-of-with-heaven-on-top-1235497688\/\">Instagram<\/a> last week. \u201cThere\u2019s mistakes and I didn\u2019t redo any of them, but this\u2019ll be out three days after <em>With Heaven on Top<\/em> drops tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Rolling Stone\u2019s <\/em>critic gave <em>With Heaven on Top <\/em>an average review, three-and-a-half stars out of five, when it came out earlier this year. \u201cListening to 25 songs of one man\u2019s stuff is about 10 too many, but Bryan can keep our attention because he\u2019s good at writing genuinely open-hearted lyrics rooted in the hope that we can read our own story in his \u2014 whether you\u2019re feeling disconnected from home or trying to cut down on nights out or just troubled by what\u2019s on your phone, a feeling he taps into on the album\u2019s politically charged \u2018Bad News,&#8217;\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/zach-bryan-with-heaven-on-top-review-1235496902\/\">the review<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\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 www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Blighted Side of Life Fresh off of re-recording his latest album acoustically to stave off whiners, Bryan can&#8217;t shake his doldrums on sparse new song What\u2019s the opposite of a feel-good hit of the summer? Well, just listen to Zach Bryan\u2018s latest song, \u201cPocket Change,\u201d which just arrived in midwinter. 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