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Brianna Chickenfry says she’s a ‘Taylor Swift fan’ after Zach Bryan’s split

Brianna Chickenfry says she’s a ‘Taylor Swift fan’ after Zach Bryan’s split

Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPagliaMusical taste is expanding.

In a recent video uploaded by her TikTok spam account, LaPaglia revealed that she is a new fan Taylor Swift after talking about her song “Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” during her breakup with Zach Bryan.

The clip features a selfie of LaPaglia, 25, talking to her aunt, who begins the video by saying she listened to the song “three times” before looking at the lyrics but was “shocked as hell.” about its meaning.

“Bar after bar, yeah!” jumping in LaPaglia. “Verbatim,” her aunt stresses, adding, “She wrote this song for…” before the content creator interrupted her to say, “Me?”

The aunt clarifies: “Yes… for everything Zach, you, everything. I was like, “Damn it!” LaPaglia says in response: “I know. It took a creep to make me a Taylor Swift fan.”

Brianna LaPaglia arrives at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards.

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Swift’s song was included on her latest album. Department of Martyred Poets. Many Swifty believe “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” was about Swift’s relationship with the singer. Matty Healy.

In the track, Swift, 34, criticizes her ex-lover for making her believe they were in love, then abruptly ending the relationship and ruining her summer.

“It wasn’t sexy if it weren’t forbidden / I would have died for your sins / Instead I just died inside,” she sings. “And you deserve to go to jail, but you won’t have the time / You’ll slip through mailboxes and slip through bars / You crashed my party and your rental car / You said normal girls were ‘boring’ / But you were gone by morning.” ”

LaPaglia’s new interest in Swift comes on the heels of her split from 28-year-old Brian, which she recently discussed in a candid conversation on Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards Best Friends Podcast released Thursday, November 7th.

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Zach Bryan and Brianna LaPaglia at the 66th Grammy Awards.

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This marked the first time that Bree’s plan uncut The presenter spoke about her past romance and breakup with the country star after their the breakup became public October 22. In the video she accused Brian of emotional abuse while they were together.

Representatives for LaPaglia and Bryan did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

“The last year of my life was the hardest year of my life dealing with abuse from this dude,” LaPaglia said, referring to Brian. “I’m still scared because I’m scared of him… My brain has been rewired and I’m scared of making him angry, and last week I didn’t want to talk about it because I was scared.”

LaPaglia also alleged that women who were previously in relationships with Brian were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) to prevent them from publicly discussing their own experiences with him. She was allegedly offered $12 million along with an apartment in New York to “not talk about the relationship.”

Dave Portnoy and Brianna LaPaglia.

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On the same day, October 22, LaPaglia and Brian’s split was announced, Portnoy referenced the aforementioned Swift song in his post. tribute tweet to LaPaglia on X (formerly Twitter).

“Dedicating this @BCChickenfry” he wrote alongside a link to “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.”

On Tuesday, November 5th, Portnoy and Richards released a diss track called “The Smallest Man”. The song, which has since been removed from Spotify and YouTube, was featured takes a dig at Brian after his breakup with LaPaglia.

The next day, Portnoy spoke about “another twist in the saga of the Littlest Man diss tracks” in video posted on X. “The song ‘Smallest Man’ has been removed from YouTube again,” he said, before quoting the song’s lyrics.

Even though the song was removed, Portnoy said it won’t stop him. “I’ll write 10,000 diss tracks,” he made clear. “I’ll die in the cubicles.”