Zach Bryan is taking purpose at an outdated flame on his new album, With Heaven on Prime.
The nation crooner dropped his sixth studio LP on Friday, January 9, and followers are already speculating whether or not one of many tracks, “Pores and skin,” is about his ex-girlfriend Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia.
On the observe, Bryan conjures up imagery of eradicating a tattoo, asking, “How do tattoos take to your pores and skin?”
Bryan, 29, and LaPaglia, 26, who cut up in October 2024 after one yr of courting, beforehand revealed that that they had gotten matching tattoos. LaPaglia has the phrases “How fortunate are we?” tattooed on her higher arm. Bryan later included the road within the lyrics to his 2024 tune “28” and received an analogous tattoo to his then-girlfriend.
However on “Pores and skin,” Bryan sings, “I’m taking a blade to my outdated tattoos / I’m draining the blood between me and also you / I’m taking a blade to my very own pores and skin.”
“And I ain’t by no means touching yours once more / Yeah, I ain’t by no means touching yours once more,” he then emphatically provides, alluding to a relationship gone bitter.
Later, Bryan sings about his thriller ex talking poorly about her pals and seemingly references his newfound sobriety.
“Do you continue to discuss s*** on all your folks? / I’m right here to take all of it to the chin / This time stone-cold sober,” he sings.
“That is def about rooster fry 😅,” one fan commented on the tune’s YouTube web page. One other wrote, “Not one for drama however is that this about b. Hen 🫣😭.”
Bryan and LaPaglia had an acrimonious cut up, which the nation singer introduced in an October 2024 assertion.
“Brianna and me have damaged up with one another and I respect and love her with each ounce of my coronary heart. She has cherished me unconditionally for a really very long time and for that I’ll at all times thank her,” he wrote by way of his Instagram Story on the time. “I’ve had an extremely onerous yr personally and struggled by some fairly extreme issues. I believed it could be useful for each of us to exit other ways. I’m not good and by no means will likely be.”
LaPaglia later mentioned she was “blindsided” by the cut up and accused Bryan of being emotionally abusive to her throughout a November 2024 episode of her “BFFs” podcast. (Bryan has not publicly addressed LaPaglia’s allegations.)
“The final yr of my life has been the toughest yr of my life coping with the abuse from this dude,” she claimed. “I’m nonetheless scared proper now as a result of I’m petrified of him. My mind’s rewired and I’m scared to make him mad.”
Following their cut up, Bryan moved on with Samantha Leonard, whom he wed in Spain on the finish of 2025.
Zach Bryan is formally off the market after marrying Samantha Leonard. The nation singer ended 2025 by saying “I do” to Leonard at an intimate wedding ceremony celebration in Spain. “More durable than the remainder,” Bryan wrote by way of Instagram on New 12 months’s Eve, with a primary take a look at the bride and groom’s wedding ceremony day seems to be. In accordance with […]
“More durable than the remainder,” Bryan captioned a photograph of the couple of their wedding ceremony day outfits posted to Instagram on December 31.
Simply months earlier than the nuptials, Bryan paid tribute to Leonard in an Instagram submit as she celebrated turning 28.
“From bull runs to all of the bulls***, as we speak is your birthday and I like you, Samantha Marie,” he gushed. “To the one girl who can hike six miles in Chanel flats, skydive over the alps and catch an even bigger fish than me all in the identical day. Hope your day was as swish as you might be. About probably the greatest days’a the yr celebrating you. To a runaway one’a today.”
