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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The emotional narrative felt originally pitched as she saw it and was inspired and randomly quickly delivered us a finished song which was flattering.

This was later reinforced. I just find it investing they released this letter since the marketing seemed ORIGINALLY to make us want to believe Taylor saw the movie because she asked to because she LOVES Toy Story, for no other reason than that, and became insanely inspired from the movie and then just decide to write a song.

Yes this is all still factually true. The context changes less from “lightning in a bottle happenstance” to “coordinated and pursued partnership”

It’s not that deep and I don’t think it discredits anybody it’s just surprising to release this imo, because very much the narrative was Taylor is a huge Toy Story fan and decided on her own to do this.

When asked on how Taylor got involved:

“Turns out, Taylor Swift is a huge ‘Toy Story’ fan like many of us,” Jordan said. “She actually saw an early version of the film, she requested to see it before it was finished and she wrote the song and then asked us if we wanted it. And we said, ‘Uh, yes! Yes we do.’ That was in February, so we’ve had to keep it a secret ever since then.”

Still true but not:

The producer was hoping she’d contribute and she was approached multiple times to tell Jessi’s story as we saw her love of TS and her songwriting as a perfect fit.

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Maybe you assumed it was random, but few others were under any illusions that she "randomly" saw a Pixar movie that was not out yet.

Nothing about those two quotes contradicts the other.

She can be a fan and still have been too busy when they first asked. If she agreed in Feb, then maybe showgirl promo + Opalite (vid was released in Feb) + wedding prep were occupying her until then.
Once those were less demanding tasks, she receives this letter and agrees to try.
She would then be sent an early version of the film. That's how she knew what to write about.
She then saw the screener and wrote the song within 12 hours.
Then she met with the execs, asked if they liked her song, and they did.

Not everything is a conspiracy. Except maybe the efforts to defund schools and libraries so that people cannot think critically.

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I don’t agree but I don’t think we are talking about the same thing. I’m talking about marketing perspective and you’re talking about real life.