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\n\tFortunately, it\u2019s not just Taylor Swift\u2018s cats that get the zoomies.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the day that \u201cToy Story 5\u201d hit theaters, the pop superstar took to X to post a brief video clip of herself speaking to the camera on the day that \u201cI Knew It, I Knew You\u201d was written and recorded. And in her telling, it really was just a day, at least for the primary work on the song, as Swift had a meeting set to play it for Bob Iger at 9 p.m. \u2026 after not sitting down for a screening of the film until 11 a.m. that morning.<\/p>\n

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\n\tShe attributed her being able to complete the writing and basic recording in eight hours or less to, of course, loving the film but also having a case of \u201cthe songwriter zoomies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeen kind of a hectic day,\u201d Swift tells the camera, holding a set of headphones in front of a studio console, as an engineer cheerfully looks on. \u201cAt 11 a.m., went to go see \u2018Toy Story 5,\u2019 got so inspired, got the songwriter zoomies, went home, wrote the end credit song for \u2018Toy Story 5.\u2019 We have now produced it, and I\u2019m doing vocals. It\u2019s 6:57 p.m. In two hours, Bob Iger and Tom from Pixar are coming to hear it. We have not recorded it yet. And I think this is one of the most fun days of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIf she indeed kept to that 9 p.m. meeting, and her screening would have ended around 1, that means she traveled home and wrote and recorded the song all in the space of about eight hours (likely not counting mixing and other touch-up work that would have followed).<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe \u201cTom\u201d is presumably Tom Porter, Pixar\u2019s VP of production. Presumably, the song had a friend in Iger and Porter, as comments made by producers have indicated that they did not ask for changes in Swift\u2019s contribution, which was co-written and co-produced by Jack Antonoff (who is not seen in the video snippet).<\/p>\n

\n\tThe exact day this went down isn\u2019t revealed in the video. Stars of the film revealed at the New York premiere that they weren\u2019t officially notified Swift had an end-titles theme until shortly before the public did, but that likely had more to do with the secrecy surrounding all new Swift music than it truly coming in at the last second. Her 9 p.m. meeting with Iger and Porter was most likely a self-imposed deadline, set up in the confidence she was ready to do a fast turnaround, since Swift noted in an earlier message that she had seen the film \u201cin its early stages,\u201d and not the finished version.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always dreamed of getting to write for these characters who I\u2019ve adored since I was a 5 year old kid watching the first Toy Story movie,\u201d she wrote in her first message announcing the song. \u201cI fell instantly in love with \u2018Toy Story 5\u2019 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?\u201d<\/p>\n

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