Fortunately, it’s not just Taylor Swift‘s cats that get the zoomies.
On the day that “Toy Story 5” hit theaters, the pop superstar took to X to post a brief video clip of herself speaking to the camera on the day that “I Knew It, I Knew You” 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. … after not sitting down for a screening of the film until 11 a.m. that morning.
She 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 “the songwriter zoomies.”
“Been kind of a hectic day,” Swift tells the camera, holding a set of headphones in front of a studio console, as an engineer cheerfully looks on. “At 11 a.m., went to go see ‘Toy Story 5,’ got so inspired, got the songwriter zoomies, went home, wrote the end credit song for ‘Toy Story 5.’ We have now produced it, and I’m doing vocals. It’s 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.”
If 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).
