Inside The Housemaid (2025): Every Song Fueling Sydney Sweeney’s Chilling Thriller

Sydney Sweeney has a new psychological thriller out, The Housemaid, and the official soundtrack just dropped. If you feel like Sweeney has been stuck in a weird box office holding pattern, this one has some real potential to shake that off: buzzy story, sharp cast, and a stacked needle-drop lineup.

The movie, the players, the vibe

Directed by Paul Feig, The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney as Millie, a young woman barely scraping by who takes a job cleaning for a very wealthy couple, played by Amanda Seyfried and Brandon Sklenar. The gig looks glossy on the surface, but Millie quickly finds herself pulled into an ugly knot of secrets under all that high-society polish. The film goes from champagne-cool to straight-up unnerving, and the music leans into that shift.

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That is the mood the score is going for, and it makes sense when you hear how it’s built.

The soundtrack: big pop swings plus eerie score

The album mixes marquee pop cuts with new score cues by Theodore Shapiro, who brings in Caroline Shaw on several tracks for that uneasy, glassy edge. Here is the full tracklist (via What-Song), with a quick fix to one obvious typo:

• I Did Something Bad — Taylor Swift — 3:58
• Since U Been Gone — Kelly Clarkson — 3:09
• Cinnamon Girl — Lana Del Rey — 5:00
• The Privilege of Teeth — Theodore Shapiro (feat. Caroline Shaw) — 2:37
• Grand Tour — Theodore Shapiro — 2:27
• Acute Psychosis — Theodore Shapiro (feat. Caroline Shaw) — 2:40
• Tumbling Dice — Linda Ronstadt — 3:05
• Blue Bayou — Linda Ronstadt — 3:57
• Take Me As I Am — Lyn Lapid — 2:56
• Why Is She Still Here? — Renee Rapp — 3:32
• Bad As The Rest — Jessie Murph — 2:32
• Nina Can't Know — Theodore Shapiro (feat. Caroline Shaw) — 2:07
• Leave Now — Theodore Shapiro (feat. Caroline Shaw) — 3:19
• A Letter to Cece — Theodore Shapiro (feat. Caroline Shaw) — 3:34
• Breaking News — flowerovlove — 2:15
• The Angel And The Saint — Goldie Boutilier — 2:48
• Please Please Please — Sabrina Carpenter — 3:06
• The Fall — Theodore Shapiro (feat. Caroline Shaw) — 4:46

It’s an in-the-moment lineup (Swift, Carpenter, Renee Rapp) sitting next to vinyl-classics energy (two Linda Ronstadt cuts, including Blue Bayou), with Shapiro’s cues threading the dread between the needle drops.

Behind the scenes: Feig and Shapiro, round four

If that name rings a bell, it should. Theodore Shapiro has been behind a ton of memorable music lately — Severance, Wolfs, Spies in Disguise — and he has a long working relationship with Paul Feig. The Housemaid is their fourth team-up after Spy (2015), Ghostbusters (2016), and A Simple Favor (2018). The combination tracks: sleek surfaces, creeping tension, and then a score that sneaks up on you and tightens the screws.

So, how is it landing?

Early word is strong, and the momentum feels real. Between the star power (Sweeney, Seyfried, Sklenar), the slick premise, and a soundtrack that knows exactly when to be pretty and when to be unnerving, this could be the one that snaps Sweeney out of that recent cold streak.

The Housemaid is now playing in US theaters.