11 years ago today, Halsey released ‘Ghost.’ Marking her debut single ahead of it later anchoring both her 'Room 93 EP' and, in a re-recorded form, her 2015 debut album 'Badlands'. She wrote it with Dylan Scott, formerly of the band Young Rising Sons, who also produced the track, recording it in a makeshift basement studio. The song's origins were unexpectedly mundane — Halsey has said she was actually supposed to be writing a jingle for a yogurt commercial when someone in the room realized what she was creating was something else entirely. An early version had already quietly circulated on SoundCloud that February, generating enough buzz on its own to draw multiple record label offers, which ultimately led to her signing with Astralwerks. The track leans into moody electropop and synth-pop, with lyrics centered on emotional detachment and loving someone who's become distant and unreachable — effectively a "ghost" within the relationship itself. Two separate music videos accompanied...