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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It’s a *Toy* Story 🤠
You knew it! My new original song “I Knew It, I Knew You” for Disney and @Pixar’s @toystory 5 will be yours on June 5th. I’ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I’ve adored since I was a 5 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?
You can pre-order now exclusively at https://t.co/NoneI6kxdH and catch Toy Story 5 in theaters June 19th ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️
IRELAND, UK & EUROPE, you’re first up for Dinner Party Live On Tour! pre-order the album from my store for access to next Tuesday’s presale. general onsale begins Thursday, April 2. check https://t.co/j3EByyfCVV for more details.
i cannot wait to see you all soon. this album was written with the live experience in mind and i’ve been itching to get back out on the road pretty much since the last tour wrapped. truly nothing better than looking out from stage and seeing all your beautiful faces.
this is the first of many legs of the tour so stay tuned in the coming months for more dates. things are just getting started!
My favorite part about writing is that first spark of an idea. It can happen at any time, for any reason. The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination when I was doing promo for The Life of a Showgirl. I was a guest on one of my favorite shows, @TheGNShow. For those of you who aren’t familiar, it’s a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like it’s a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and @LewisCapaldi. All people whose work I’ve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. He’s Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script I’d written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isn’t mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90’s with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! I had more fun than I ever imagined - Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices. It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters. Shot on film. The Opalite video is out now on Spotify & Apple Music.
https://t.co/ZOi4zNuyTD
Baby it’s Cold Outside is not about a man pressuring a woman to stay the night.
It’s about societal implications of a woman wanting to stay the night but not being able to say yes because of what society would think.
The “what’s in this drink” was a common joke at the time, she’s using the excuse of something being in her drink to excuse her uncharacteristly bold behavior.
She’s worried about what others might think and using the excuse “it’s cold outside” is her saying yes to staying the night as that would give her the explanation as to why she didn’t leave his house that night.
Perhaps it's emotion, but I'm willing to thread my way out onto a limb today to say that WHEN HARRY MET SALLY may be the greatest rom com ever filmed.
Rob Reiner🕯️
Few scenes have touched me and stuck with me as much as Harry’s New Year’s monologue, and what Rob Reiner and Nora Ephron captured in this film, in that scene, is just pure magic; a longing so raw and internal expressed so vulnerably yet so open and ardent. One of the best ever.