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 kid from the age of 5 til now… is an adventure I plan to be on, to infinity and beyond.
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 @RandyNewman or 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. “I Knew It, I Knew You” from Toy Story 5 is out everywhere now. 🤠🐴
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When Taylor Swift talks about the scale of what she’s built, she traces it not just to talent or timing but to the people who stood closest to her from the start, guiding, grounding, and making room for something much bigger than any one person.
“Ultimately, I just don’t see any of this happening if all my family hadn’t been involved. We work together. We’re kind of a family business for 20 years. My parents didn’t know anything about the music industry, but they were like, ‘Yeah, we know nothing about it right now, but we’ll get some books and read.’ […] In an industry as cutthroat as the music industry, learning hard lessons and experiencing ups and downs and triumphs and failures, was a huge challenge for my whole family. Everybody was so locked in for my whole life. They all banded together to be like, ‘No, she wants this. We want this for her.’”
The thing that always gets me about Taylor and her grandmother is the idea that so many of our passions have actually been passed down through generations, and that maybe one of the great purposes of our lives is to stubbornly love those passions enough to carry them forward