NEED TO KNOW
- Zach Bryan launched his new album With Heaven on Prime on Jan. 9
- The musician’s lyrics appear to deal with his relationships with ex-girlfriend Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia and spouse Samantha Leonard
- The album additionally references his sobriety and his indecision as as to whether he desires to change into a father
Zach Bryan isn’t holding again on his new album With Heaven on Prime.
The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, 29, launched his sixth studio album on Friday, Jan. 9 — and over the course of 25 songs, seemingly shed new mild on his emotions towards ex-girlfriend Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, life together with his new spouse Samantha Leonard Bryan and his determination to get sober late final yr.
On the track “Pores and skin,” Bryan takes goal at an ex, promising to take “a blade to my outdated tattoos” with a purpose to drain “the blood between me and also you.”
“I’m taking a blade to my very own pores and skin/And I ain’t ever touching yours once more,”he sings. “How do tattoos take to your pores and skin? Does your greater floor ever sink in? Do you’re keen on folks simply to win when it’s over?”
Bryan additionally slams his ex for speaking poorly about her associates with the lyrics, “Do you continue to discuss s— on your entire associates?/Must take all of it to the chin this time stone-cold sober.”
It’s doubtless the track is a reference to LaPaglia, 26, from whom Bryan introduced his break up in October 2024. The podcast host has Bryan’s lyrics from the track “28” tattooed on the again of her arm. The 2 broke up below acrimonious circumstances, as she later accused the musician of emotional abuse, and claimed that he provided her $12 million and a home to not communicate publicly about their relationship.
Bryan has not addressed LaPaglia’s claims, although he appeared to make his emotions clear on the brand new track “Plastic Cigarette.” Within the track, Bryan sings about assembly somebody “evil” in Queens, New York; the singer and LaPaglia started their romance in June 2023 after she attended his live performance at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.
“You had been gathering shells out on the bay shore, you already know I used to be a shell earlier than/Deep within the arms of one other/My brother had advised me to go away however I didn’t consider the evil beneath some folks you meet out in Queens,” he sings.
The track “Slicked Again” additionally comprises an obvious reference to LaPaglia, who has made her profession as a social media character and shares a lot of her life together with her followers on-line.
“Used to know some of us who put all of it on-line however you paint landscapes within the night time,” he sings in a nod to spouse Leonard, 28, whose work Bryan has beforehand shared on Instagram.
Elsewhere, the star sings extra positively about Leonard, whom he married in Spain on New 12 months’s Eve after a number of months of courting.
On the track “Runny Eggs,” he sings about reserving a flight to Pamplona to “discover a girl with some large outdated Spanish eyes.” He and Leonard attended the well-known Operating of the Bulls in Pamplona collectively in July, and later tied the knot within the nation.
The remainder of “Slicked Again” is an ode to his new bride, with a refrain that claims, “You’re so cool in my lounge/And once you discuss trash together with your hair slicked again/After I get to hell or heaven, can I carry my lady?/’Trigger she likes romance, good intercourse, music and ruling the world.”
“Camper” can also be about Leonard, as Bryan sings about his “California child,” questioning “why she’d ever need to name that cowboy mine.” Leonard is from California.
Along with songs about romances previous and current, Bryan additionally grapples with different elements of his private life on With Heaven on Prime, together with whether or not he desires to at some point change into a father.
“Everybody I do know received older/Advised my drunk ass to get sober, quiet down and have some youngsters/Be content material with all of this/What if I don’t need youngsters that develop up like their father, prepared to stir s— up and begin a battle?” he sings on “Urge for food.”
The road can also be a nod to his sobriety, as Bryan introduced in November that he was two months sober after working by way of his “poisonous relationship with booze” with the assistance of a therapist.
Bryan additionally snuck in a quick nod to his 2023 run-in with the regulation on the title monitor, singing, “Wanna battle and cry, wanna fall in love/Scrap and claw for what we’re dreaming of/Spend an evening in jail after pissing off a cop.”
Bryan was arrested in Oklahoma in September 2023 for interfering with a visitors cease on his safety guard, who was dashing.
With Heaven on Prime was written, file and produced by Bryan during the last a number of months in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is set to take the album on a prolonged world tour beginning in St. Louis in March.
The singer additionally introduced that he’ll be releasing an acoustic model of the file three days after the album’s launch.
