Toy Story 5 Taylor Swift Teases Appear in Cities Nationwide and Online, as Pixar Offers Coy Response

Disney has heavy teased the engagement of popular superstar Taylor Swift successful Toy Story 5 — portion besides acknowledging the rumors with a coy response.

Fans archetypal linked Taylor Swift to Pixar's upcoming animated blockbuster a period ago, erstwhile a mysterious countdown teaser appeared for a fewer minutes connected the popstar's website, earlier swiftly being deleted. The teaser featured Toy Story's iconic bluish inheritance and achromatic clouds — the wallpaper successful Andy's chamber — with yellowish and bluish substance akin to Toy Story's logo.

At the time, Swift's rabid fanbase past noticed respective evident Toy Story nods successful the euphony video for her caller way Opalite, and realized that the movie volition get connected June 19, the 20-year day of her debut single. These escaped threads were hardly conclusive, but the thought that she was progressive successful the movie has persisted.

Now, the concern has escalated significantly, with tremendous Toy Story 5 billboards appearing crossed the US successful galore cities that simply show the letters: "TS". Disney and Pixar societal media accounts person past been sharing images of the billboards online, with 1 telling station by Pixar's Twitter/X relationship adjacent including the Taylor Swift lyric "She's making those moves up arsenic she goes!" arsenic a caption.

Taylor Swift fans are known for spotting hidden references and Easter eggs successful the artist's lyrics, euphony videos and performance performances. Disney appears to beryllium leaning into this brilliantly, with further hints present popping up crossed societal media.

These see animated Toy Story-like clouds appearing erstwhile you hunt "Taylor Swift" connected TikTok, the capitalization of the letters T and S successful lyrics connected Apple Music for Taylor Swift songs released arsenic an album's way 5, an update to Apple Music's Taylor Swift Essentials playlist truthful it lone includes way 5s, and a alteration to Taylor Swift's 5th medium screen creation to diagnostic Toy Story-like clouds.

Last week, Toy Story 5 manager Andrew Stanton addressed the Taylor Swift speculation head-on, and offered a cautiously worded denial.

"It amazed us," Stanton said successful an interrogation with YouTuber Shivani Khosla. "What a freakin' honor... The bittersweet information is we watched the movie being mixed past week and the opus connected the extremity was not Taylor Swift."

Throughout each this, it's unclear precisely what Swift's engagement mightiness be. Is she voicing a character, oregon providing a opus connected the soundtrack (that's not the credits song), oregon perchance both?

Toy Story 5 launches successful theaters connected June 19, though it's apt we won't person to hold that agelong to find retired what precisely is going on.

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