WASHINGTON — Taylor Swift is dropping a new song for the upcoming “Toy Story 5” movie.
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Swift announced the new song, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” will drop this Friday. Fans speculated a Swift and “Toy Story” collaboration was in the works after the singer, known for leaving easter eggs, hinted a possible announcement recently.
Swift’s official website featured a countdown clock earlier on Monday along with an animation of the character Jessie from “Toy Story” and a billboard sign of the initials “TS” with 13 clouds. The countdown then revealed collector’s edition CD’s with Swifts new song.
“You knew it! My new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Disney and @Pixar’s @toystory5 will be yours on June 5th,” Swift said on X Monday afternoon. “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?”
Pixar confirmed the new song, teasing its arrival.
The animation studio had also shared a video on Instagram of Jessie dancing in front of billboard.
“She’s making those moves up as she goes,” the video said, in reference to a line off of Swift’s “Shake It Off.”
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Swift is not the only musician tied to the new movie as Disney recently announced global superstar Bad Bunny will make a voice cameo. The “DtMF” singer, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, will play a new character called “Pizza with Sunglasses.”
The character is described as an “effortlessly cool and mysterious” Pizza with Sunglasses that is a part of a community of forgotten toys that live in an abandoned backyard shed.
Joan Cusack, who is the voice actor for Jessie, made her first red carpet appearance in 11 years last week to promote the upcoming film.
When does “Toy Story 5” come out?
The latest installment in the “Toy Story” franchise will arrive in theaters on June 19.
The first “Toy Story” was released in 1995 as the first fully computer-animated feature film. Disney distributed the film and its 1999 sequel “Toy Story 2” before purchasing Pixar in 2006. The franchise returned 11 years later with “Toy Story 3” in 2010 and then with “Toy Story 4” in 2019, both of which grossed over $1 billion at the global box office and won Academy Awards for best animated feature. The franchise has collectively grossed over $3.3 billion worldwide.
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