What’s the Theme Song in the Intro to Peacock’s The Good Daughter?
Find out the story behind the propulsive theme song of Peacock’s limited series The Good Daughter.
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Key Takeaways
- Freya Ridings co-wrote and performs “Wicker Woman,” the haunting theme song featured in Peacock’s limited series The Good Daughter.
- The song’s lyrics center on resilience, empowerment, and reclaiming strength after emotional harm, reflecting the experiences of sisters Charlotte and Samantha Quinn in the series.
- “Wicker Woman” was released in 2025 as a single from Ridings’ 2026 album Mother of Pearl, and the singer described it as a personal “reclaiming” anthem inspired by empowered women in her life.
If the mesmerizing theme song for Peacock’s Original limited series The Good Daughter has you rewinding the opening credits just to hear it again, we’re right there with you.
A hypnotic anthem of empowerment, The Good Daughter theme song — “Wicker Woman” — soars over the opening credits evoking the voices of similar female singers like Ethel Cain, Tori Amos and Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. Though the track wasn’t written specifically for Karin Slaughter’s adaptation of her own 2019 New York Times bestselling book, “Wicker Man” has lyrics that perfectly capture the experiences of sisters Charlotte (Meghann Fahy) and Samantha Quinn (Rose Byrne).
Read more about this memorable song and the woman behind it, below.
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Who sings The Good Daughter theme song, “Wicker Woman"?
English singer/songwriter Freya Ridings co-wrote the song “Wicker Woman,” which has become the haunting theme song for Peacock’s limited series, The Good Daughter.
The song was released in 2025 as an early single from Riding's 2026 album, Mother of Pearl. The third album of her professional career, it was released this year on May 29 and peaked at number 12 on the Scottish Albums Chart.
Riding’s first broke out in 2017 with her etherial ballad, "Lost Without You,” which charted at number 9 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2024, her song “I Can’t Hear It Now” was included in the Arcane Season 2 Original Soundtrack.
The Good Daughter intro song “Wicker Man” lyrics
Obviously, a series about the resilience of two sisters overcoming the life-changing violence in their past needs an incendiary theme song. Music supervisor Andrew Kotatko (Wolf Like Me) found the rousing original song, “Wicker Man,” co-written by Freya Ridings.
I held my breath, I held my tongue
To make you feel big and strong
You thought you could tear me down
And it would mean nothing now
For you, for you
You took the air out of my lungs
Whispered, "You're weak", but you were wrong
Like you could rip the roots from me
And I'd just crawl silently
From this land, by your hand
In the chorus, Ridings forcefully sings:
I'm a wicker woman, put a lighter in my chest
Thought I wouldn't do it, I meant every word I said
Ooh, don't test me now, I'm burning out
I've found the fire that I've always needed
Say you love me now, too late somehow
I've found the fire that I've always needed
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In 2025, Ridings told C-Heads Magazine that “Wicker Man” was her “reclaiming” song.
“I’m trying to embody the empowered feminine that I saw around me growing up from my mother and my grandmothers,” the singer explained. "I saw fiercely independent, beautiful, fiery, funny, strong women, and I think for me I felt in myself, especially over the last sort of few years, a kind of weakening and a people-pleasing that was really frustrating to me — and especially with making music, you can’t really come from that mindset. I think it’s true empowered feminine energy, and I think it’s a reclaiming of the anger of anyone who tried to take that away from you in any kind of subtle way."
Catch the theme song and the rest of The Good Daughter’s amazing soundtrack in all six episodes streaming on Peacock.
