Taylor Swift has confirmed a new original song for Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story 5, ending months of fan speculation with a June 5 release date for “I Knew It, I Knew You.” She made the announcement on social media and linked it to a soundtrack rollout that sent collector’s edition CDs selling out within hours.
Swift said she had always dreamed of writing for the characters in Toy Story, adding that she had adored them since she was 5 years old and watching the first film. She also said she fell in love with Toy Story 5 when she saw it in its early stages, then wrote the song as soon as she got home from the screening.
The timing explains why the reveal landed with so much force. A countdown had appeared on Swift’s website before the announcement, and once it expired the site offered three collector’s edition CDs of the soundtrack — standard, acoustic and piano versions of the new song — available for two days or while supplies lasted. All three versions were gone within hours, a fast sell-through that fit the long-running online hunt around the project.
That hunt stretched back through a chain of clues fans had been tracking for months. In April, paparazzi photos showed Swift in a blue-and-white dress, carrying a yellow bag and wearing red shoes, then billboards with “TS” against the franchise’s cloud background appeared. Later, the cover art for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) changed subtly on streaming services, with seagulls replaced by clouds, while Pixar shared a video of Jessie dancing with a caption that echoed lyrics from “Shake It Off.”
Swift did not confirm the collaboration until her social media post, even after the clues had pushed the rumor mill into overdrive. That gap mattered because it turned a fan theory into a release plan: a song dated for June 5, a movie opening on June 19, and a soundtrack package designed to move as soon as it appeared. Toy Story 5 also lands on the 20th anniversary of Swift’s songwriting career launch as a teenager in the Nashville country scene, giving the announcement an added sense of timing that is hard to miss.
The song is now the next concrete marker to watch. Swift has already set June 5 for “I Knew It, I Knew You,” and the film will follow in theaters two weeks later. What remains unclear is how the track will be used in the movie itself — but after the website countdown, the sold-out CDs and the late confirmation, the collaboration is no longer a tease. It is on the calendar.
