His song “I Remember Everything” is a duet with another big star,Kacey Musgraves.
The track is track 11 on Bryan’s self-titled album and was released in August 2023.
“I Remember Everything” has a melancholic sound to it, which is matched bythe emotional lyrics.
The opening verse begins with Bryan singing about drinking to, “ease my mind.”
/ Labrador hangin' out the passenger door."
Bryan also asks if Musgraves remembers, “that beat down basement couch?”
Bryan adds that he remembers all of that before launching into the chorus.
The second verse is sung by Kacey Musgraves and connects to Bryan’s first line.
Musgraves sings a simile about concrete in the summertime to express how their love burns hot but causes pain.
Musgraves' chorus has the same lines as Bryan’s but gives them a different meaning.
Who was begging whom to stay?
Could ‘I Remember Everything’ be about Zach Bryan’s ex-wife?
That choice emphasizes his inner turmoil about the relationship, which is perhaps more heightened than hers.
However, Bryan has had his fair share of breakups that could have informed “I Remember Everything.”
Bryan and his ex-wife Rose Madden got divorced in 2021.
OneReddituser did a deep dive speculating that the collab with Musgraves is about Bryan and Madden’s relationship.
They also claimed that the ‘88 Ford was Bryan’s car during his relationship with Madden.
“I self-titled it because I hear every cell of my being in it,” he wrote onInstagram.
