Everything you need to know about the pop megastar’s original song for the movie \u2013 I Knew It, I Knew You<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Taylor Swift appears at the MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, New York, on Sep 11, 2024. (Photo: Evan Agostini\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n Taylor Swift’s new song for Disney and Pixar’s forthcoming Toy Story 5<\/a> film is here. On Friday, Swift released I Knew It, I Knew You, a bit of a return to country music for the performer who first made a name for herself in the Nashville music scene before taking over the world.<\/p>\n Here’s everything you need to know about I Knew It, I Knew You.<\/p>\n Swift doesn’t sing with a familiar twang on I Knew It, I Knew You, but no matter \u2014 the song features some elements inextricable from the country genre: Live instrumentation, plucky banjo and harmonica that opens the track.<\/p>\n Most view Swift’s last official foray into the country music genre to be 2012’s Red, though the album is much more of a crossover experiment. It would be more astute to label Speak Now as her last true-blue, full-length, country music release \u2014 and that was more than 15 years ago.<\/p>\n Additionally: I Knew It, I Knew You is also Swift’s first original material since The Life of a Showgirl<\/a> was released in October.<\/p>\n The song is also co-produced by Jack Antonoff, her former, frequent collaborator. Swift started working with Antonoff on 2014’s 1989 through 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Notably, the pair started their long collaboration after Swift’s country era, perhaps with the rare exception of Betty from her 2020 Folklore album.<\/p>\n \u201cWriting this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time. Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once,\u201d Swift wrote on social media Friday, referencing the beloved cowgirl character. \u201cAnd being a Toy Story kid from the age of 5 til now\u2026 is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n Last weekend, billboards with the initials \u201cTS\u201d stylised like the Toy Story logo, appeared in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Toronto, Mexico City and London \u2014 fitting, as \u201cTS\u201d works both for the beloved franchise and the musician.<\/p>\n On Monday, Swift confirmed the song was forthcoming, writing on Instagram: \u201cI\u2019ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I\u2019ve 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She also shared that pre-orders for three CD single versions of the track were available on her site. They quickly sold out: One features the song as it appears in the film, another is an acoustic version and the last is a piano version.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s incredible just how meaningful it\u2019s been having Taylor write and perform this song. Her connection to Jessie and the immediate way she understood what the character was going through was undeniable,\u201d Toy Story 5 director and writer Andrew Stanton said in a press statement at the time. \u201cThe song is so deeply connected to \u2018Toy Story.\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Some fans online have begun speculating: Could this be an Oscar contender in the original song category?<\/p>\n Quite possibly, if it adheres to all relevant rules and regulations, For 2027 Academy Awards consideration, a feature film \u2014 and its song submissions \u2014 must have a qualifying theatrical release between Jan 1 and Dec 31 this year. Toy Story 5 will be released in theatres worldwide on June 19, so it qualifies there.<\/p>\n It also depends on when I Knew It, I Knew You is placed in Toy Story 5. There’s a new rule this year: If the song plays over the end credits, it must also overlap with the last 15 seconds of the film before the credits actually begin.<\/p>\n At any rate, if Swift’s song is submitted \u2014 and if she were to win \u2014 she’d be just that much closer to an EGOT. She has 14 Grammys<\/a> and an Emmy. An Oscar would mean she’d only need a Tony. Could Broadway be next?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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