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Welcome to Part II of my thoughts on "I Knew It, I Knew You," Taylor Swift‘s original song for Toy Story 5! If you know me, you know that Taylor Swift and Disney/Pixar are two of my favorite things in the world. (All I need now is a Starbucks collab drink based on the song in the movie and I’d have the trifecta...) Ever since this collaboration was announced, I’ve been having All The Thoughts. And: practice what you preach. One of the main, foundational ideas of my course is

Y'all, I did it. I made it to midnight last night. And I got the chance to listen to the song 4 or 5 times before I finally passed out. I managed to throw some incoherent initial thoughts up on Instagram, but long story short: this was ✨not✨ what I expected, but in the best way. I think it's fair to say that the general expectation for Taylor's song was something similar to Sarah McLachlan's rendition of "When She Loved Me" in Toy Story 2 -- a contribution to a scene that rea

...just say 'yes.' That's right: when the countdown ended Monday, Pixar & Taylor Swift officially announced the collaboration they had been ingeniously teasing. Taylor Swift has written an original song for Toy Story 5 titled "I Knew It, I Knew You." As she reveals in (the ✨heavily✨ Debut TV coded) Instagram post: "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." Th