“Teardrop” is the opening theme associated with House M.D.
The song was released by the English trip-hop group Massive Attack in 1998. Its distinctive vocal and pulsing arrangement became strongly linked with the show's opening credits, where medical imagery and cast credits accompany the music.
“Teardrop” was written by Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall, Andrew Vowles, and Elizabeth Fraser. Fraser of the Cocteau Twins provides the lead vocal. The track appeared on Massive Attack's album Mezzanine and became one of the group's most recognizable songs.
The song is often identified simply as “the House theme,” but Massive Attack is the artist rather than the title. The series also used alternative music in some broadcasts and international versions. In the United States, the familiar opening-theme presentation was especially associated with the show's early seasons, making the song one of the most recognizable musical signatures of a medical drama.