{"id":2287806,"date":"2026-02-18T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2287806"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:16:16","slug":"sza-joins-pixars-hoppers-with-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sza-joins-pixars-hoppers-with-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"SZA Joins Pixar&#8217;s Hoppers With New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"maincontent\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\">\n        <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"SZA's \" save=\"\" the=\"\" day=\"\" debuts=\"\" in=\"\" pixar=\"\" bringing=\"\" her=\"\" signature=\"\" vibe=\"\" to=\"\" mabel=\"\" adventure.=\"\" catch=\"\" film=\"\" theaters=\"\" march=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Multi-Grammy winning artist SZA has been revealed to be performing a song in Pixar&#8217;s latest film <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/p\/hoppers-guide-2\/\"><em>Hoppers<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/uploads\/media\/2026\/02\/SZA-Hoppers.png\" data-fslightbox=\"15\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: inherit\">\u201cSave the Day,\u201d the brand-new song from <em>Hoppers<\/em> performed by SZA, is set to debut this Friday, February 20, wherever you listen to music.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: inherit\">Pixar shared a brief 16-second snippet of the song in their social posts announcing the debut.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSave the Day,\u201d the brand-new song from \u201cHoppers&#8221; performed by multi-Grammy winning artist SZA, will premiere this Friday wherever you listen to music. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9uAXepT5qI\">pic.twitter.com\/9uAXepT5qI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pixar (@Pixar) <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pixar\/status\/2024167030459388274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Our own Alex Reif learned a little more about SZA&#8217;s new song during a recent press conference about <em>Hoppers<\/em>, learning that director Daniel Chong is a huge fan of SZA&#8217;s music.<\/li>\n<li>During the making of the movie, he had used songs like &#8220;Good Days&#8221; and &#8220;Saturn&#8221; as placeholders for the end credits \u2013 two songs that bring a melancholic, yet joyous vibe.<\/li>\n<li>This led Chong and co-director Nicole Grindle to ask SZA to write a song for the film, who ended up having a small window to write the song after getting off her tour.<\/li>\n<li>Chong said, &#8220;I think there was an intuitiveness in talking with SZA that when she saw the movie, I think she immediately knew what the movie needed. She understood Mabel as a character immediately.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You can <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"read more of Alex's interview\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.laughingplace.com\/disney-entertainment\/pixar-hoppers-daniel-chong-nicole-grindle-interview\/\">read more of Alex&#8217;s interview<\/a> with <em>Hoppers<\/em>&#8216; directors, where they discuss TV influences, surprising early versions of the film, and why \u201980s sci-fi helped shape Pixar\u2019s latest original.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"embed-wrapper\">\n<div style=\"max-width: 1778px;\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel Chong &amp; Nicole Grindle Break Down Pixar\u2019s Hoppers \u2014 From TV Roots to \u201980s Inspirations\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kKQ_UAlhX5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>More on <em>Hoppers<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In\u00a0<em>Hoppers,<\/em>\u00a0we\u2019ll follow Mabel \u2013 a nature student \u2013 who grew up surrounded by a nearby glade that serves as a sanctuary to hundreds of animals, spending hours there with her grandma \u2013 but now, years later, the animals have left the glade and that glade is at risk as Mayor Jerry Generazzo (voiced by Jon Hamm), is ready to build a highway through it.<\/li>\n<li>That\u2019s when she discovers the Hoppers \u2013 scientists who have figured out how to hop their minds into robot animal bodies so they can study animals AS animals. While the scientists use it for research, Mabel tries to hop into an animal body to bring the critters back to the glade to stop Mayor Jerry.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The voice cast also includes Kathy Najimy (Dr. Sam), Sam Richardson (Conner), Aparna Nancherla (Nisha) and Karen Huie (Grandma Tanaka).<\/li>\n<li>Catch\u00a0<em>Hoppers<\/em>\u00a0in theaters everywhere when it arrives on March 6, 2026.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.laughingplace.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-Grammy winning artist SZA has been revealed to be performing a song in Pixar&#8217;s latest film Hoppers. What&#8217;s Happening: \u201cSave the Day,\u201d the brand-new song from Hoppers performed by SZA, is set to debut this Friday, February 20, wherever you listen to music. 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