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Tay Story Is Happening And Millennial Moms Cannot Handle It

The Taylor Swift x Toy Story collab hits music streaming services on Friday.

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Jessie peeks around a doorway with a smile while several toys gather behind her in a dim room in a scene from Toy Story 5.

If you've been a Taylor Swift fan since you were a kid, and you're now raising a kid who loves Toy Story, congratulations. This one was made for you.

On June 1, Swift confirmed what fans had been desperately hoping: she wrote an original song for Toy Story 5. Titled "I Knew It, I Knew You," it drops June 5, ahead of the film's June 19 theatrical release. And the internet has not recovered.

The song is inspired by Jessie, Toy Story's fan-favourite cowgirl, and Disney is calling it a return to Taylor's country roots. She co-wrote it with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, and says the inspiration came immediately after watching an early screening of the film. "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," Swift wrote on Instagram. "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?"

For a lot of moms, that sentiment lands hard. Toy Story came out in 1995. The kids who watched it in theatres are now in their 30s and 40s—and many of them are watching it all over again with their own children. Taylor Swift, who has said she saw the first film at age 5, is one of them. And now she's written the song for its fifth instalment.

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Toy Story 5 itself centres on a theme that will feel painfully familiar to parents: screen time. Bonnie, now eight, has become obsessed with a new tablet toy named Lilypad and the rest of the toys, led by Jessie, are desperate to compete. Tom Hanks, who voices Woody, has described a moment in the film where you see the blue glow of a screen in children's bedrooms. "It does strike terror into the heart," he said.

So yes, it's a Disney Pixar movie about begging your kid to put down the iPad. With a Taylor Swift song. You've been warned. Toy Story 5 opens in theatres on June 19.

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Gurpreet Virdi-Bains is a Toronto-based mom of two, wife, lifestyle creator, registered social worker, and founder of Aura Kids and The Gratitude Company. Through her writing and digital content, she shares honest conversations about motherhood and wellness, with a mission to help parents raise grounded, mindful kids in a modern world.

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