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Jon Burlingame editorHow do you write a love song that’s also a lament for the impending end of the world?That was the challenge for “Don’t Look Up” composer Nicholas Britell, lyricist Taura Stinson and their co-writers and performers, Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi, as they collaborated on “Just Look Up.” The song is performed in the film and is on the Oscar shortlist for possible nomination in February.The idea came from writer-director Adam McKay, Britell reports. Grande had already been cast as Riley Bina, a pop star who reconciles with her rapper boyfriend (Kid Cudi, as DJ Chello) on the same morning talk show where astronomers (played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) reveal that a comet is on a collision course for Earth.

A version of this story about the songs from “Don’t Look Up” first appeared in the Race Begins issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine.Of all the uproarious moments in Adam McKay’s doomsday comedy “Don’t Look Up,” one of the most surprising comes late in the film when the character of pop star Riley Bina, played by Ariana Grande, performs at a huge outdoor concert and sings her new anthem “Just Look Up.”The song begins as a love song and ends essentially welcoming the comet that is on its way to

Ariana Grande is done filming!