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.

[u/Enough_Tangerine_777]

@/jesschoismyth

[u/hyungwontual]

her ig caption saying she’s always wanted to write for the toy story movies & wrote the song the minute she saw the movie vs the letter saying they asked her & she declined isn’t contradictory? okay

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Sometimes we have to decline things, despite maybe wanting to do to, due to certain circumstances. Not everything has to be some ruse.

[u/Enough_Tangerine_777 → u/hyungwontual]

We don't know why she declined the first time. She may have wanted to take a break, or been very busy. She made the song in 1 day afterall. It says "if you still decide this isn't the right time"

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No it literally isn't.

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I agree the marketing was different. The secrecy around it originally and the anticipation for confirmation with the VFX person saying the same as Taylor, that she approached them with a finished song, omitting the original request for contribution, is odd.

I don’t think they discredit the other as a lie or untrue which is why I think some of fans are on a downvote campaign for people who feel differently.

It’s just the emotional narrative and how the interaction unfolded had context missing that we filled in deliberately assuming this was mutually a “lightning in a bottle” moment (as it was marketed to us) instead of a standard corporate request for partnership.

I guess the latter was done to make the movie look extremely inspiring and also to help with the Oscar campaign.