What is the title of the opening song to "Orange is the New Black"?
Answer
You've Got Time
The opening song to Orange Is the New Black is “You've Got Time,” written and performed by Regina Spektor. It serves as the Netflix series' main title theme and plays over the opening credits.
Series creator Jenji Kohan approached Spektor because she admired her music and had listened to her albums while developing the show. Spektor wrote the song specifically for the series after seeing rough episode footage and thinking about imprisonment, confinement, and the different emotional states of people in prison.
The lyrics and sound fit the show's setting without functioning as a simple prison anthem: references to cages, endurance, and time connect with the characters' incarceration and their attempts at redemption. The song was released as a single in 2013 and received a Grammy nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
The theme is sometimes called the show's “intro song” or “title track,” but “You've Got Time” is the precise title. A chamber-orchestra version was released in 2019 for the series' seventh and final season.