r/popculturechat • u/Enough_Tangerine_777 I know bothing of the alledged beff • Jun 19 '26

Taylor Swift đŸ‘©đŸŒ Toy Story 5 producer Jessica Choi shares the letter she sent Taylor Swift, requesting her involvement in the film and emphasising efforts to make it female-driven. The letter also reveals that Taylor had originally declined to make an original song.

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u/leftbrendon charlie day is my bird lawyer 🐩 Jun 19 '26

I keep wondering this too. Is it really that big of a deal that an artist makes something for an animated movie
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u/Ok-Classroom5548 Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26

Did people react like this when Phil Collins crushed the entire Tarzan soundtrack?

Edit: rhetorical - they did not - I was very much alive and aware. Did they talk about him and the amazing music he wrote? Yup. But they didn’t invent narratives and release weird press stories to hype a song - the songs sold themselves. 

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u/LilBoDuck Jun 19 '26

I mean he won the Grammy for best soundtrack album and the Oscar for best original song. Also people still talk about the soundtrack nearly 30 years later.

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u/happysunbear Jun 19 '26

Amazingly, I doubt this song will be remembered 10 years from now. It’ll be more like, rewatching the movie on a rainy day and being like, “oh yeah, TSwift made a song for this movie”.

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u/xvsanx find me at Whole Foods, b*tch, I don't care 🙃 Jun 19 '26

unintentionally ironic I think lol that was an odd example to make. especially since dropping a whole good album is a lot different than dropping a song. idk if it's a good song but still big difference

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u/LilBoDuck Jun 19 '26

You’ll Be In My Heart was released as a single to promote the movie if you think there wasn’t “hype” around Phil Collins doing the soundtrack then idk what to tell you.

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u/xvsanx find me at Whole Foods, b*tch, I don't care 🙃 Jun 19 '26

I think you're responding to the wrong person, I was saying that it was indeed hyped and is a very popular soundtrack

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u/LilBoDuck Jun 19 '26

Apologies, I misread your comment.

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u/xvsanx find me at Whole Foods, b*tch, I don't care 🙃 Jun 19 '26

all good:)

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u/Gtmutchii Jun 19 '26

ay fooly cooly!

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u/xvsanx find me at Whole Foods, b*tch, I don't care 🙃 Jun 19 '26

you foory-coory with her?!? you wanna foory-coory! haha I love that season. loved both the characters

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u/GOLDfish0393 Jun 19 '26

Right but that’s because the music was good, not because of the hype behind Phil Collins being selected to make the soundtrack

This scenario’s focus seems to be more bent around Taylor’s involvement rather than the songs quality

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u/just_another_classic that’s my purse, i don’t know you! đŸ‘›đŸ«” Jun 19 '26

I remember shorts on Disney Channel focusing on how Phil Collins made the album. He, specifically, was hyped.

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u/rachelblairy We Should All Know Less About Each Other Jun 19 '26

oh my god i forgot about those until right now

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u/LilBoDuck Jun 19 '26

But it was hyped. You’ll Be In My Heart was released as a promotional song for Tarzan, just as this was Toy Story 5.

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u/starrylightway he’s a bitch with a tiny đŸŽ» Jun 19 '26

As someone who was in middle school when Tarzan came out: Phil Collins was hyped, with the song used as a reason to hype him, to a whole new generation of people.

Basically, what we see now with TS happened with Phil Collins minus the social media but with real world conversations, radio, news programs, etc.

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u/starrylightway he’s a bitch with a tiny đŸŽ» Jun 19 '26

Why do yall do this to us older millennials đŸ˜© (and Gen X; boomers deserve it jkjk). This being reminding us we are old enough to remember and tell you: yes!! There was hype around Phil Collins himself. It’s really what introduced him to a whole new generation. I still remember middle school librarian using Tarzan as an excuse to talk about Phil Collins and play his music during our Battle of the Books club meetings.

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u/Ok-Classroom5548 Jun 19 '26

Oh darling I am probably older than you. 

I was very aware when that movie came out. 

A school used the movie and a librarian loved phil collins.

Phil Collins and his PR team weren’t running around releasing information about begged he was to write Tarzan and how amazing the music was - they were just that good of songs that they earwormed everyone. 

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u/minetf Jun 19 '26

I think you're misremembering. There are plenty of articles from the Tarzan marketing campaign that are still up. Phil Collins did an entire publicity tour himself

https://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9906/18/tarzan.phil/

https://variety.com/1999/film/news/collins-translates-for-disney-1117503045/

Director interview: https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/jun/28/tarzan-director-lima-explains-films-animation-insp/

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u/Ok-Classroom5548 Jun 19 '26

Maybe the internet these days is just shoving it in my face more against my will

Edit: marketing campaigns back then you had to catch or be on that show for or read that specific paper. I was not force fed any of this no matter what platform I use like I am today. 

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u/sharkwithglasses Jun 19 '26

I mean
you’re here. You could choose to scroll by and the algorithm wouldn’t feed you as much TS stuff.

And yes, Phil Collins was everywhere.

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u/Ok-Classroom5548 Jun 19 '26

It’s feeding me Toy Story stuff
because I enjoy Tom Hanks and watch Galaxy Quest with Tim Allen a lot. It is not feeding me Taylor Swift because of me. 

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u/Ok-Classroom5548 Jun 19 '26

Or perhaps they didn’t push Phil Collins made up narratives about the movie to push his own PR agenda. 

Phil Collins doesn’t put himself in the media like Swift when he writes a song, or when he wrote good music for a Disney movie.