{"id":477105,"date":"2026-06-05T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/477105\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:03:08","slug":"taylor-swift-toy-story-5-song-i-knew-it-i-knew-you-hits-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/477105\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift ‘Toy Story 5’ Song ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’ Hits Streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJessie and her owner are reunited, in the apparent scenario laid out in Taylor Swift<\/a>\u2018s new \u201cToy Story 5<\/a>\u201d song, \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You,\u201d which debuted on digital services Thursday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso reunited (and it feels so good): Taylor Swift and country music \u2014 as promised by Disney when they first helped Swift announce the new tune Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift posted a message on social media as the single was coming out that included vintage home video of herself as a little girl, marching in a red cowgirl hat and and a shirt embroidered with boots. She wrote:<\/p>\n

\n\t\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. And being a\u00a0@toystory<\/a>\u00a0kid from the age of 5 til now\u2026 is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe continued, \u201cThank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film. Thank you to the incomparable\u00a0@randynewmanofficial<\/a>\u00a0for the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you\u2019ve meticulously woven over the years. You created the Toy Story musical world, and we are lucky to get to live in it. By we, I mean myself and my pal\u00a0@jackantonoff<\/a>. We wrote this with so much adoration for these characters that made us laugh and helped us learn lessons and think outside the backyard all throughout our childhoods.\u201d <\/p>\n

Writing 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. And being a @toystory<\/a> kid from the age of 5 til now\u2026 is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/gewjzSS0qg<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) June 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe song is sprightly and upbeat. It seems likely to serve a similar function in \u201cToy Story 5\u201d as another tune, \u201cWhen She Loved Me,\u201d served all the way back in \u201cToy Story 2,\u201d as far as an anthem destined to play over a montage involving Jessie. But whereas that was a mournful song of separation between human and cowgirl toy, \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d has the opposite tone, finding easygoing joy in a rematch that was made to be.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd yes, it has one of Swift\u2019s patented bridges, in case anyone was worried she would go the way of TikTok economy and leave that out.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe track is co-produced and co-written by Swift and Jack Antonoff<\/a>, who is making his return to that chair for the first time since \u201cThe Tortured Poets Department.\u201d Although Antonoff didn\u2019t start working with her until she had largely set her original genre aside, they did work together on the country-leaning song \u201cBetty\u201d from her 2020 \u201cFolklore\u201d album (also co-produced by Aaron Dessner), so this is not entirely unfamiliar territory for them as collaborators.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lyrics have a much more certain outcome for the reappearance of a loved one on a porch than the tentative ones of \u201cBetty\u201d did:<\/p>\n

\n\tI knew you
Through the daze of the blades of the grass in summer
Parachutes for the free fall of being younger
I memorized the sound of your bare footsteps
Running wild, it\u2019s been a long time
Life has ways of leaving those days behind
But seeing you tonight<\/p>\n

\n\tI remembered I loved you
Came back when it mattered
I saw you, standing there in the light of the window
Wearing that same smile
Man, it\u2019s been a while
But I knew it, I kn\u0435w you
I knew it, I knew you<\/p>\n

\n\tI knew you, all your blu\u0435s like a mood ring changing colors
You did too, there were times we could fight like brothers
I watched you drive around the bend
For what I thought would be the last time I saw my friend
But love has ways of bringing things back to life
All you said was, \u201chi\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd I remembered I loved you
Came back when it mattered
I saw you, standing there in the light of the window
Wearing that same smile
Man, it\u2019s been a while
But I knew it, I knew you (I knew, I knew)<\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with the digital single, Swift has been selling both CD and vinyl versions of the track on her website this week, although all of those physical editions sold out well before their 48-hour windows were up.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough it\u2019s easy to picture how the song may be used in the film, based on descriptions of the plot that have already been offered to some journalists, based on sneak previews of the first half-hour of the movie, the usage of the track will become clearer when the movie has its gala premiere June 9. It opens in theaters the night of June 18.<\/p>\n