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Gavin Adcock Blasts Zach Bryan For Disrupting Gabriella Rose’s Set At Born & Raised Fest: “That Rubbed Me Really, Really Wrong”
Love him or hate him, he’s spot on here.
By now everybody’s probably sick of hearing about the confrontation between Zach Bryan and Gavin Adcock at Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma last month.
Long story short, the whole thing started when Gavin called Zach out after the “Something In The Orange” singer 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, telling her to “GOMD” (which stands for “get off my d—“). 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.
The beef came to a head at Born & Raised Fest, where Zach wasn’t on the lineup but joined Gabriella Rose during her opening set, and even hijacked the duet to call Gavin out from the stage…
While performing “Madeline,” Zach apparently thought that was the appropriate time to…taunt Gavin Adcock, not once but twice, including in the middle of the song:
@ware_3
GAVIN ADCOCK F*CK YEAH #zachbryan #oklahoma #bornandraised #fyp #concert
♬ original sound – Trey Ware
He then 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 admitted that he was trolling Zach, but said he had no intention of fighting him and ruining his headlining set at the festival for the 10,000 fans who came to see him (in Zach Bryan’s own backyard, no less).
The bigger problem for Gavin, though, was the way Zach acted during Gabriella Rose’s set.
It didn’t get as much attention as the viral confrontation, but I wrote at the time about how disrespectful it was to the up-and-coming artist to use her set for your own personal beef with another artist. That was her time, her set, and should have been about her, not your feud with Gavin Adcock. To make it about yourself and detract from her music was just totally uncalled for and classless.
And Gavin said much the same thing during his recent conversation with Bunnie Xo on her Dumb Blonde podcast:
“That pissed me off the most the whole day. The fence scaling stuff, the ‘Oh I’m gonna fight you, 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, ‘F— yeah Gavin Adcock’ three or four times the whole song, she had to feel sick.
I’ve only been just super nice to Gabriella, I’m a big fan, I love the way she sounds. And that just rubbed me really, really wrong that day.”
From Gavin’s account, Zach was on a mission to find him and disrupt Gavin’s headlining set that evening:
“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.”
And according to Aaron Watson, an artist who wasn’t on the festival that day, he heard the same thing from some of his artist friends who were there:
“I had some artist buddies at that festival that you played with Gavin. They said you acted like a total drunk tool all day long.”
And he also took Zach to task (rightfully so) for disrupting Gabriella Rose’s set to make it about himself:
“And when you got on stage with that young female artist, you could have made it all about her and her art. It could have been her moment. But yet all you kept doing is talking about your beef with Gavin Adcock.
By the way, everyone says you could have settled it with him backstage. But yet you waited right before his show. When there was a barbed wire fence and a bunch of security guards between the both of you.”
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That whole part of the story hasn’t got nearly the attention that the confrontation with Gavin did, but I have to agree with Gavin because I feel like that was the most egregious thing he did all day.The post Gavin Adcock Blasts Zach Bryan For Disrupting Gabriella Rose’s Set At Born & Raised Fest: “That Rubbed Me Really, Really Wrong” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.