A new countdown has appeared on Taylor Swift’s website, confirming that she is involved with the upcoming Toy Story 5 movie. The countdown acts as confirmation of Swift’s involvement, although the exact details will remain a mystery until June 1st at 2pm. The confirmation comes after days of increasingly not-so-subtle hints from official Disney accounts. Here’s the latest.
Taylor Swift Confirms Toy Story 5 Involvement
IN THIS ARTICLE
- What the new countdown shows
- The Pixar social media hints that led here
- What the Toy Story 5 director has already said
- What we still don’t know about Swift’s exact role
- When Toy Story 5 arrives in theaters
THE COUNTDOWN
Swift’s website is currently showing a Toy Story-themed countdown, set to expire June 1 at 2:00pm ET. The visual design leans hard into Toy Story territory, featuring the franchise’s signature blue sky and clouds aesthetic and a billboard bearing the “TS” initials in Toy Story-style lettering. The character of Jessie appears prominently in the lower left.
This isn’t the first countdown Swift’s site has run in connection with these rumors. An earlier timer appeared in late April, only to be pulled before it expired without any announcement. That one also used cloud imagery fans associated with Andy’s bedroom wallpaper from the original films. Today’s countdown is the more direct of the two, with the “TS” billboard spelling out the connection plainly.
WHAT PIXAR HAS BEEN DOING
Pixar’s social media team has been in on it. The official Pixar account recently posted a video of Jessie dancing in front of a real-world billboard bearing “TS” and 13 clouds, a number that has long been associated with Swift. The caption, “She’s making those moves up as she goes,” closely mirrors the lyric “I make the moves up as I go” from Swift’s “Shake It Off” song from her 1989 album.
WHAT THE DIRECTOR HAS RULED OUT
Here’s where it gets interesting. Toy Story 5 director Andrew Stanton addressed early speculation directly in a recent interview, and his denial was specific. He confirmed that Swift is not performing an end-credits song. “The sad truth is we watched the movie being mixed last week, and the song on the end was not Taylor Swift,” Stanton said, though he added the production would be honored by her involvement.
That’s a notably narrow denial. Stanton didn’t say Swift has no involvement at all, only that she isn’t doing a closing-credits track. I’d imagine that today’s 2:00pm announcement reveals concrete details on the scope of Swift’s involvement.
Toy Story 5 hits theaters June 19, 2026.
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