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A fine Green Day tune, but the band was more deserving of the record prize a year before with “American Idiot,” which lost to that middling Charles/Jones duet.

And, alongside hip-hop crossover star Post Malone, Wallen is nominated for his first two Grammy Awards at the Feb. 2 ceremony for their duet “I Had Some Help.”

While it will also include two new songs from composer Stephen Schwartz, I’m most looking forward to Erivo and Grande’s rendition of the beloved duet from which this second installment takes its title.

Think, especially, of “Shallow,” her and Bradley Cooper’s Oscar-winning duet from their remake of “A Star Is Born.”

There are only a few numbers, but most of them are marvelous constructions with sinewy arrangements and overlapping harmonies that tangle around each other during duets.