Taylor Swift’s Toy Story 5 Song Was Finished In Eight ‘Hectic’ Hours

Taylor Swift has opened up about the somewhat chaotic recording process for her contribution to the Toy Story 5 soundtrack.

Earlier this month, the Grammy winner unveiled her single I Knew It, I Knew You, which features over the end credits of the new Toy Story movie.

A week after its release, the song topped the singles chart on both sides of the Atlantic, and to mark Toy Story 5’s arrival in cinemas on Friday, Taylor revealed in an Instagram post that her soundtrack cut was written and recorded over the space of one “hectic day”.

“It’s been kind of a hectic day,” she shared in a video from the day of the recording, posted on Instagram earlier this week.

“At 11am, I went to go see Toy Story 5, got so inspired, got the songwriter zoomies, went home, wrote the end credit song for Toy Story 5.

“We have now produced it, and I’m doing vocals. It’s 6:57pm. In two hours, [Disney CEO] Bob Iger and Tom from Pixar are coming to hear it. We have not recorded it yet.”

However, Taylor was quick to admit that she was embracing the chaos, claiming that it had been “one of the most fun days of my life”.

I Knew It, I Knew You was a collaboration with Jack Antonoff, with whom Taylor worked on hit singles like Look What You Made Me Do, Cruel Summer, Anti-Hero and Fortnight.

She previously recorded a new song for her 2019 movie Cats, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.

Taylor previously beamed: “I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a five-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?”

A press release also teased that I Knew It, I Knew You would mark a return to the country style showcased by Taylor in the early years of her career, with the song taking inspiration from “the rootin’ tootin’ cowgirl Jessie’s ongoing journey”.

Toy Story 5 is in cinemas now.