Taylor Swift has released the music video for her latest single, “I Knew It, I Knew You,” the country-inflected original song she contributed to “Toy Story 5.”
The video is entirely made up of footage from “Toy Story” and focuses on Jessie, who inspired the song and is featured on the track’s cover art. Viewers can watch the clip on Spotify and Apple Music.
“I Knew It, I Knew You” was released to streaming services at midnight last night, not long after she announced that she’d be releasing the single earlier this week. To accompany the song, she posted a vintage video of herself on social media that showed her as a little girl in a red cowgirl hat and a shirt embroidered with boots.
“Writing this song felt like a musical departure and coming home at the same time,” she wrote in the post. “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.
She continued, “Thank 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 @randynewmanofficial 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 @jackantonoff. 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 co-produced and co-wrote the song with Jack Antonoff, who reunited with her for the first time since “The Tortured Poets Department.” In addition to the digital single, Swift is offering CD and vinyl versions of the track, though the physical editions quickly sold out.
“Toy Story 5” is set to have its gala premiere on June 9, and opens in theaters on June 19.
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