Taylor Swift Announces New Song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for <em>Toy Story 5</em>
The soundtrack cut is out this Friday, June 5—here’s everything we know
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
Taylor Swift has officially entered her Pixar era. The Grammy-winning pop star announced she's contributing an original track — "I Knew It, I Knew You" — to the Toy Story 5 soundtrack, marking her first new music since The Life of a Showgirl dropped last October. The song releases Friday, June 5, with special collector's edition CDs available for preorder.
If you missed the buildup, that's on you — Swift has been telegraphing this for weeks. According to Harper's Bazaar, a countdown clock appeared on her website in late April against a backdrop suspiciously similar to the cloudy wallpaper from the original Toy Story. Then came a New York City street look that, in retrospect, was practically a press release: a blue-and-white striped Staud dress, a yellow Dior Lady bag, and red Christian Louboutin sandals — the exact color palette of the Toy Story logo. Coincidence is not in this woman's vocabulary.
The Numbers Don't Lie
The Easter eggs kept escalating. The seagulls on her 1989 (Taylor's Version) Spotify cover — her fifth studio album — were swapped out for clouds. Her "Essentials" playlist was quietly edited to feature only the fifth track from each of her records. On TikTok, searching her name triggered a floating cloud animation. And then: 13 billboards went up across major cities worldwide, stamped with the initials "TS" — which, depending on your allegiances, stands for either Toy Story or Taylor Swift.
The fives are the real tell. Swift's fifth tracks have long been considered the emotional spine of her albums — raw, confessional, deliberately placed. Toy Story 5 is the fifth installment of the franchise. The alignment is too clean to be accidental, and Swift has never done accidental.
The fashion, the billboards, the Spotify edits — this wasn't a rollout, it was a scavenger hunt, and the reward is a new era of Swift doing what she does best: making you feel something, even if the audience this time includes a room full of animated toys.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
