• Taylor Swift announced she’s officially dropping a song for Pixar’s Toy Story 5 called “I Knew It, I Knew You.”
  • During a New York Times interview in April, Taylor detailed a specific songwriting structure spanning childhood to adulthood, which fans believe was a hidden Easter egg hinting at the new song’s narrative.
  • Fans also speculate the track “I Knew It, I Know You” could be Oscar-eligible. Here’s what we know about the latest theory.

Taylor Swift fans are masterminding again. As Blondie gears up to drop her first song since The Life of a Showgirl last fall, Swifties are digging up clues to see if the Grammy winner has dropped hints about her Toy Story 5 track, “I Knew It, I Knew You.”

On top of tracking down all the evidence that the track even existed, Swifties managed to identify a potential Easter egg they believe she casually dropped back in April. During a rare interview for The New York Times as one of their 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters honorees, Taylor broke down one of her favorite tropes in songwriting.

“You know, a hypothetical structure would be…first verse, little girl learns a lesson that in the chorus, her mom teaches her about. Then the little girl grows up and now she’s a teenager, and she realizes, ‘Oh, my god, my mom was right about this,’” she explained at the time, seemingly pointing back to her beginnings in country music.

Tay continued, “Now, the second time you hear the hook, that same hook means something a little bit different cause she’s, like, grown up in her life. Then the bridge, maybe she goes on in her life, she has a little girl. She imparts that wisdom onto her. And then if you really wanna get me to cry, like, bring back that same first line of the song and end the song with it.”

Of course, fans took this as a sign that it might be the structure of “I Knew It, I Knew You,” sharing their own theories in the comments section of a viral TikTok that suggested her response may have been an Easter egg the entire time.

“Get that Oscar Taylor,” one fan wrote, jokingly referring to a potential Oscars campaign for the track since it could be eligible for Best Original Song at next year’s ceremony. Another playfully called the artist out for her tendency to casually drop Easter eggs in interviews, adding, “Nothing is ever hypothetical.”

Others pointed out that she could have been referring to her own tracks over the years, like “Never Grow Up,” or songs from other artists, like “Don’t Take the Girl” by Tim McGraw.

As for what we do know about the song, Taylor admitted she had “always dreamed” of penning a track for the Pixar film she loved as a kid.

“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,” she wrote, in part, during her announcement. “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?”

Well…we’ll have to wait and see till the song drops on Friday to find out if this theory has any legs!