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I Knew It, I Knew You

2026 single by Taylor Swift

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"I Knew It, I Knew You" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift from the soundtrack to Disney and Pixar's animated film Toy Story 5 (2026). Swift wrote and produced the song with Jack Antonoff after attending an early screening of the film, taking inspiration from the story of the character Jessie in the Toy Story franchise. "I Knew It, I Knew You" was released on June 5, 2026, through Walt Disney Records, and was promoted to US country and pop radio formats.

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This entry incorporates text from “I Knew It, I Knew You” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.