Taylor Swift announced on Instagram that her original song for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” will be released on June 5—followed by an acoustic and piano version—and she says she wrote it right after seeing the film early.
Taylor Swift didn’t just tease a project—she pinned it down to a date.
On Monday, the pop star posted the news on Instagram, revealing that she’s releasing an original song for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5. The track is titled “I Knew It, I Knew You,” and Swift said it will be available on June 5.
In her message, Swift sounded both delighted and personal about the connection. “It’s a *Toy* Story. You knew it!” she wrote, before adding: “My new original song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ for Disney and @pixar’s @toystory 5 will be yours on June 5th.”
She also explained why this felt like more than just another gig. “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. ” Swift wrote. She said she fell quickly for what comes next. noting that she “fell instantly in love with Toy Story 5” after seeing it in its early stages. “I wrote this song as soon as I got home from the screening,” she said.
Swift added that fans can pre-order the song “exclusively on my site,” and she shared the movie’s theater date as part of the same announcement: “catch Toy Story 5 in theaters June 19th.”
There’s more in the rollout, too. Swift also revealed there will be an acoustic version and a piano version.
For the past month. fans on the internet have been dissecting clues—convinced there was an invisible thread tying Swift to the upcoming animated film. With this announcement. that speculation has turned into something concrete: the connection fans were chasing is now the centerpiece of a June music release.
The only question left is whether Swift’s original track will be the soundtrack moment audiences keep replaying long after June 19th arrives.
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