Just Look Up

"Just Look Up" is a song by Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi, released as a promotional single for the Netflix film, Don't Look Up, on December 3, 2021. It begins as a ballad song before narrating a comet about to destroy the planet.Peters, Mitchell (December 5, 2021). "Fans Choose Ariana Grande & Kid Cudi's 'Just Look Up' as This Week's Favorite New Music". Billboard. The two performed it on The Voice in its finale.Wang, Lydia (December 16, 2021). "Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi Performed "Just Look Up" on 'The Voice'". Netflix.
== Composition ==
Producer Nicholas Britell told The Wrap that he read the film's draft script and talked with director Adam McKay for awhile. He had a melody in mind and played it for McKay on the piano. This followed by sharing it to Grande, who immediately "laid down the entire vocal top line of the song with no lyrics, just improvising this whole thing." Next, Taura Stinson was tasked with creating the lyrics. She said, "It's a time capsule kind of song. You can take it as pollution or climate change or the vaccine [...] It resonated with me deeply, just the idea that our world could just end because, essentially, for so many people, that's what happened last year. COVID was the meteor." Britell added, "It was such a tricky thing to pull off. It has to be a sincere love song, and it has to really feel like a good song. This is a comedy, but the song isn't a joke song—it's a sincere, real song that happens to express this absurd explanation of what is happening. I was wondering how we were going to do that—but when she sent the lyrics over, I was literally like, 'Oh, that's how we do it.'"Pond, Steve (December 10, 2021). "How Ariana Grande, Kid Cudi and Team Wrote a Love Song for the End of the World in 'Don't Look Up'". The Wrap.
== Lyrics ==
== Gallery ==
File:Ariana Grande and Kid Cudi - Just Look Up (Live on The Voice)
== References ==
Category:2021 songs
Category:Collaboration songs
Category:Explicit songs
Category:Kid Cudi songs
Category:Promotional singles
Category:Songs
Category:Soundtrack songs