The Music On This Show Is Great — For 1 Particular Reason

Growing up, “We Are Lady Parts” creator Nida Manzoor would have jam sessions with her sister, Sanya, and brother, Shez.

“One of us would come into the other one’s bedroom and be like, ‘Oh, I’ve got this idea for a song.’ And Sanya, my sister, would start harmonizing, and my brother would start playing the guitar,” Manzoor told me in a recent interview.

As adults, they still work the same way, as collaborators on the music for “We Are Lady Parts.” Now in its second season on Peacock , the bold and buoyant comedy series follows the members of Lady Parts, a punk band composed entirely of Muslim women: Amina (Anjana Vasan), Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey), Ayesha (Juliette Motamed) and Bisma (Faith Omole), as well as their manager, Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse). Naturally, the band’s music plays a central role in the show, and, thanks to Manzoor and her siblings, Lady Parts’ songs are extremely rad. (Shez, a composer, also scored Manzoor’s 2023 film, “Polite Society.”)

In composing the songs together, it was a return to the “organic” way they would write music during childhood, as Manzoor explained. “We had a week in a studio here in Bristol, where I live, and my siblings came and stayed over.”

Manzoor would come in with a song title or style in mind. “And then, we would just brainstorm ideas, lyric ideas, and then my brother would pick up the guitar, and then we would just start jamming and singing, and then we’d start writing. We’d write a song every day and then sort of move on. And we didn’t overthink it as well. We weren’t like, ‘This has gotta outdo Season 1.’ We just followed the vibe, and we were like, ‘This is cool. All right. That’s a song.’ There was not a lot of pressure on it. I think it was just ’cause it felt like