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Gavin Adcock Says Zach Bryan Was “Throwing Up In Trash Cans” Before Their Born & Raised Fest Confrontation
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Gavin Adcock and Zach Bryan made plenty of headlines last month following an incident at Born & Raised Fest in Pryor, Oklahoma, after Zach jumped over a barbed wire fence to confront Gavin due to some online beef.
Long story short, Gavin called Zach out after Zach aggressively responded to a 14-year-old girl on TikTok a while back, who complained that he didn’t stop and meet with fans in New York. To be fair, Zach spent time with fans 2 of the 3 nights. But then Gavin sat down for another interview with Rolling Stone and basically said that he didn’t think that Zach was a very good guy. And thanks to his relationship with Brianna LaPaglia, I believe there are quite a lot of people who would share that sentiment.
At Born & Raised, Zach joined Gabriella Rose during her opening set, and even hijacked the duet to call Gavin out from the stage… again, not the best look for Zach. He allegedly saw Gavin through a fence as he was leaving and stopped to confront him, hopping over the fence, before he was grabbed by security, and no punches were thrown.
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Gavin continued to troll Zach by posting memes and poking fun about it online, and this week, he’s the guest on BunnieXO’s Dumb Blonde podcast, where she of course asked him about it and she said she was initially planning to ask him why he ran away.
She explained that after watching many of the videos that were posted about it online, she “never once heard” Gavin say that he wanted to fight Zach, and Gavin says that out of everything that happened that day, he was most upset by how Zach acted during Gabriella Rose’s set. He had come to the festival just to sing their song “Madeline,” though clearly think there were some ulterior motives behind that move too, unfortunately.
Multiple times during their performance, Zach interjected with comments about Gavin that completely distracted from the performance:
“Yeah, I just said that on another podcast, that I didn’t really appreciate how he reacted to a 14-year-old girls, ‘Why didn’t you sign my stuff? message. And telling her to ‘Get off my ***.’ Which is just a childish thing for a 30-year-old to do…”
To be fair, I don’t think Zach knew it was a 14 year old girl, but nevertheless, maturity isn’t exactly Zach Bryan’s strong suit.
Gavin continued:
“He decides to show up at my show in Oklahoma at the Born and Raised festival, goes onstage with Gabriella Rose, which he has a song with. Which, that was what pissed me off the most the whole day. The fence scaling stuff, the ‘Oh, I’m gonna fight you. I’m gonna kill you,’ type stuff didn’t bother me.
The fact that he took advantage of her set, somebody that was probably really excited about you coming up there and singing the song, and took that moment and screamed ‘Yeah, Gavin Adcock,’ three or four times the whole song.
She had to feel sick. Because I’ve only been super nice to Gabriella, I’m a big fan. I love the way she sounds, and that just that rubbed me really, really wrong that day.”
Respect… I found that to be the most egregious part as well.
Gavin went onto explain that Zach just “paced around” the festival grounds all day, and he alleges that Zach was “drunk as hell” and “throwing up in trash cans,” in addition to being rude to other artists and their crew there.
Gavin also said that he had a warning from his team that Zach would be there looking for a fight in an effort to ruin Gavin’s set, and he was prepared for the instigating long before it happened:
“He just paced around the inside of the festival all day, drunk as hell, throwing up in trash cans, going up to other artists treating them like s***, their crew s***, and just asking ‘Where’s Gavin?’ When I got to the festival that morning, they said, ‘Hey, Zach‘s coming today, he’s probably gonna try to start some s*** to get you to not go onstage, so just be aware of that.
And my crew is smart enough to go, ‘Yeah, he’s gonna try to pull some s***, so you don’t get to play this show for 10,000 people 30 minutes away from his house.’ So I had that on my mind all day, and when he pulled up on the other side of the fence, I was just chilling out there.
He started coming after me, so I was like, let’s see how mad I can make this guy. Zach Bryan fans commented on all my s*** all the past two weeks, and it’s only made my posts do better.
I probably went up 600,000 or 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, just from them being whiney b*******. and yeah, I did fuel the fire for that whole next week. I posted a bunch of s*** to keep him going. Whatever keeps them talking.”
Obviously, this is just one side of the story, though Bunnie asked if it was possible that if this beef continues, it could go too far. Gavin seemed to imply that he would continue to speak about it when prompted because he believes Zach deserves to be called out:
“How far how far is too far? I’m not really sure. I mean, I’m not saying anything. My opinions about Zach are an opinion of a quality person that’s got some meaning to it of like, yeah, you shouldn’t be doing that stuff, or you shouldn’t be acting that way.
You shouldn’t come and use a young girl’s set to have a public beef. It’s just s***** sense.”
Gavin added that they’ve never spoken before other than at the fence, and he never had intentions to fight him. He feels like the best revenge was headlining the show and leaving it all on the stage for the fans who came to see him:
“I ain’t never talk to him besides that interaction at the fence. I told him, when we first started arguing and raising hell at the fence, I said, ‘Zach, I’m not fighting you, dude. I’m about to go out here and play a show.’
But then he kept coming at me, so I was like, I’m just gonna stir this f***** up and see what he does. Instead of fighting Zach and getting arrested, the biggest win I could do is go out there and play the rowdiest, most bad*** show. I’m proud of my decision and not fall into his trap and ruin the show.”
I doubt we’ll ever hear such a detailed explanation from Zach’s side of things, but I do think it’s for the best that there was no physical altercation because no one wins in that situation.
Gavin’s right, though… I’m sure it only upset Bryan more that he played in front of such a big crowd right down the road from his hometown:
@xomgitsbunnie Chat, is Gavin Adcock right in how he feels about Zach Bryan? Drops tomorrow @GavinAdcockMusic #gavinadcock #zachbryan ♬ original sound – Bunnie Xo
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