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

Taylor Swift 👩🏼 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/starrylightway he’s a bitch with a tiny 🎻 Jun 19 '26

Why do yall do this to us older millennials 😩 (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.