“Teardrop” played during the opening credits of House M.D. in the United States.
The song was recorded by the English group Massive Attack and released in 1998 on the album Mezzanine. Its distinctive vocal and electronic arrangement became closely associated with the show’s opening sequence, which presents stylized medical imagery and introduces the principal cast.
The song is often incorrectly given as “Massive Attack,” but that is the artist, not the title. The canonical title is “Teardrop.” International broadcasts and later versions of the opening sometimes used different music because of licensing arrangements, so not every country heard exactly the same track.
The opening theme’s association with House helped make “Teardrop” recognizable to television viewers who had never followed Massive Attack’s broader catalog.