Once again, Swifties were right! After a day of speculations and easter eggs, Taylor Swift and “Toy Story 5” have announced her new original song, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” which will be released this Friday. Yesterday, visitors to TaylorSwift.com were greeted by a clouded countdown that would reveal the collaboration at 2PM Eastern. Taylor wrote on her socials about the song saying, “I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old.”
The GRAMMY winning singer also revealed she got to see the film in its “early stages” and confessed, “I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening” cheekily adding, “Sometimes you just know, right?” The song, co-written by her longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, will see Taylor return to her country roots and is being released with three variants: the original, an acoustic version, and a piano version.
The excitement follows a viral easter egg campaign with mysterious “TS” billboards that many Swifties were sure hinted at a collab. The movie’s director Andrew Stanton noted Taylor’s connection to Jessie and “the immediate way she understood what the character was going through was undeniable. The song is so deeply connected to ‘Toy Story.’ So much so that on first listen, it instantly felt like it had always belonged there, like a long-lost family member.” “Toy Story 5” arrives in theaters on June 19th.
It’s a *Toy* Story 🤠
You knew it! My new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Disney and @Pixar’s @toystory 5 will be yours on June 5th. I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story… pic.twitter.com/CRdhM5eLBt— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 1, 2026
