Taylor Swift on New ‘Toy Story’ Song: “A New Challenge and Also Felt Like Second Nature”

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Taylor Swift ‘s Toy Story 5 song “I Knew It, I Knew You” officially dropped on Friday, and as promised after Disney called the song a return to Swift’s country roots, her latest brings the world’s biggest superstar back to her debut days.

“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time,” Swift wrote in an Instagram post Thursday night, accompanied by a video of a Young Swift in a Jessie-like cowgirl outfit. “Creating something for Jessie was a new challenge and also felt like second nature all at once. And being a @toystory kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.”

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Swift reunited with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff on the song which is an upbeat country-pop track complete with some banjo and mandolin fills.

“Thank you to the brilliant Andrew Stanton for imagining me for this, all those years ago when you wrote this newest film,” Swift said, also giving props to Randy Newman “for the gorgeous sonic tapestry of songs and scores you’ve 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 Jack Antonoff” Swift wrote. “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.”

Swift is the latest major act to join the Toy Story musical world, following the likes of Sarah McLachlan and Chris Stapleton. It’s far from Swift’s first time making a song for a film, having already contributed tracks like “Safe and Sound” for The Hunger Games and “Today Was A Fairy Tale” for Valentine’s Day.

Toy Story 5 itself is set to release on June 19.

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