Maybe Joni Mitchell was right; maybe we don’t really know clouds at all.
The news is finally out—After many weeks of speculation, the truth is known. Taylor Swift will be involved in Toy Story 5.
“You *knew* it!” Swift writes on a June 1 Facebook post. “My new original song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5 will be yours on June 5. 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 movie. I fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5 when I was lucky enough to see it in its early stages, and I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening. Sometimes you just know, right?”
Physical CD versions of the single are available on Swift’s website until Wednesday June 3 at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time or while supplies last.
Swift told fans in the way that fans have grown accustomed to from her—with Easter eggs, naturally, the final egg being a Toy Story-themed countdown on her website featuring Jessie gleefully riding around on Bullseye and a T.S. billboard in the background.
Let’s recount those Easter eggs, shall we?
April 30: a mysterious, cloud-themed countdown appears on Swift’s website, and fans realize that Swift’s latest public appearance features her wearing Toy Story colors.
May 27: Toy Story 5 producers shut down the rumors, saying that the film has already been mixed and that the final song is *definitely not* by Taylor Swift.
May 29: Taylor Swift changed the album covers for 1989 and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).
May 29: Toy Story 5 billboards appear featuring “T.S” and 13 clouds.
May 30: Disney posts a Toy Story 5 billboard with the caption “We are READY FOR IT.”
May 31: Apple Music changes 1989 cover art to Toy Story font.
May 31: Spotify adds a cloud picture to the official eras tour playlist and a cloud emoji to Swift’s eras stickers collection.
May 31: Apple Music capitalizes T and S in their Instagram and Twitter bios.
May 31: Apple Music’s Swift essentials playlist switches to only Track 5 songs.
May 31: The letters T and S are capitalized in the lyrics of all track 5 songs.
May 31: Toy Story clouds appear when you look up Taylor Swift on TikTok
May 31: The Empire State Building projects a cloud-filled sky.
June 1: A Toy Story themed countdown appears on Swift’s website.
“I knew It, I Knew You” is the latest collaboration between Swift and Jack Antonoff, the first since the release of 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department.
Toy Story 5 director and screenwriter Andrew Stanton sang the song’s praises.
“It’s incredible just how meaningful it’s been having Taylor write and perform this song,” Stanton says. “Her 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. It was kismet.”
Toy Story 5 releases in theaters June 19.
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