Taylor Swift Fans Spiral Over “the Hallway” After “Depression” Playlist Unveils a New Easter Egg

ICYMI (there's no way, but ya know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), Taylor Swift dropped five new Apple Music playlists based on the Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. And now, fans are out here spiraling over a mysterious “hallway” that repeatedly shows up in the “Depression” playlist.

Taylor introduces the “Depression” playlist by musing, “We're going to be exploring the feelings of depression that often lace their way through my songs. In times like these, I'll write a song because I feel lonely or hopeless. And writing a song feels like the only way to process that intensity of an emotion. And while these things are really, really hard to go through, I often feel like when I'm either listening to songs or writing songs that deal with this intensity of loss and hopelessness, usually that's in the phase where I'm close to getting past that feeling.”

Meanwhile, the playlist itself features multiple songs that mention a mysterious hallway—something fans immediately clocked.

As Us Weekly recently noted, Taylor first sings, “Were you standing in the hallway with a big cake” on “Coney Island” (from her album Evermore). She then mentions a hallway in “Maroon” (from Midnights) when she sings, “You were standing hollow-eyed in the hallway, carnations you had thought were roses, that’s us.” And finally, she sings, “Now, you're runnin' down the hallway, and you know what they all say, you don't know what you got until it's gone” in “You're Losing Me” (also from Midnights).

Soooo...WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT HALLWAY?!?!

Unclear, but given these are breakup songs, it seems safe to assume the hallway represents a transitional period between a relationship and its end. Or, as one fan theorized, a purgatory of sorts.

Anyway, in conclusion, as ever, HER MIND.

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