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Ariana Grande has recorded a song with Macy Gray for her new LP 'Dangerous Woman'.
The 22-year-old pop beauty and the 'I Try' hitmaker teamed up to duet on 'Leave Me Lonely' and Ariana says it is a "special" track for her.
She said: "I have one song called 'Leave Me Lonely' which is really special my friend wrote it for me and my friend Tommy Brown produced it and it features Macy Gray. It's a really special one."
It is the second confirmed collaboration for the album following the reveal that rapper Lil Wayne appears on 'Let Me Love You'.
Macy's vocals on the track will be the first time fans will have heard her voice on a song since her last album, 2014's 'The Way'.
Ariana also teased she has two more collaborations she is yet to unveil.
She told New York radio station KTU 203.5 FM: "I haven't announced the rest. There are only four collaborations on the album."
Ariana previously vowed that her new material will be completely different from anything she's done before.
She said: "'Dangerous Woman' sits in its own world. It doesn't sound like anything that I've put out before."
Ariana's third studio LP, the follow-up to 2014's 'My Everything', will drop on May 20.

Nicki Minaj's next album will be full of happy songs.
The 'Anaconda' hitmaker admits her last LP - 2014's 'The Pinkprint' - was written at a time when she felt "emotionally unstable" as her 11-year relationship with Safaree Samuels came to an end, but her fourth album will reflect the "happiness" she's found in her relationship with her rapper boyfriend Meek Mill.
She explained: "I needed time to hear myself think again because where I left off with 'The Pinkprint' was a little bit emotionally unstable.
"I wanted to take a moment to just live my life, enjoy my life, have fun, go out. I think that's very important before you start writing again. Now, I want my happiness to be reflected in the new stuff."
The 33-year-old star - who is keen to have children with Meek - is currently laying down lyrics for her next record and has teased that her fans will have a "spiritual experience" when they hear the new material.
She told the new issue of Nylon magazine: "It's a spiritual experience for the people who are hearing the music, so I'm trying to be very careful of what mental space I'm in while I'm creating it."
As for when fans can expect the record it could be a little while yet as she's focusing on her acting career and will be busy promoting her forthcoming film 'Barbershop: The Next Cut', which is released on April 19.
She said: "Musically, I feel very fulfilled, and now I can start tapping into my acting world, where it's about passion and not about the money. It's wanting to be what I set out to be when I was in high school: an actress."

The Who have been announced to headline the Isle of Wight Festival.
The legendary rock group will return to the music extravaganza for a fourth time when they take to the main stage on Saturday 11 June for what will be their only UK festival date of 2016.
Festival boss John Giddings announced: "The Who are part of the fabric of The Isle of Wight Festival, and it's great to welcome them back to the island as part of their ongoing 50th anniversary celebrations. We're proud to have a lineup of homegrown headliners to help celebrate our own 15th anniversary and ensure that this year delivers yet another unforgettable weekend of music."
Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and their live band - which includes Zak Starkey, Pino Palladino and Pete's brother Simon Townshend - will be bringing their 'Hits 50!' show to Seaclose Park, where they'll play all of their greatest hits including 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Baba O'Reilly', 'The Seeker', 'Pinball Wizard', 'Who Are You' and 'My Generation'.
Meanwhile, Richard Ashcroft - who is releasing 'These People', his first solo album since 2006 on May 20 - has also been confirmed as the iconic band's special support act.
The Who first played the festival in 1969 and returned a year later.
And most memorably they played when the late David Bowie headlined in 2004, in what would be the 'Starman' hitmaker's last ever festival show in the UK.
The Who join previously announced headliners Queen and Adam Lambert, Stereophonics and Faithless.
Organiser Giddings previously admitted he deliberated for a long time over booking Queen as he wasn't sure they would work as a headline act without their late frontman Freddie Mercury.
Giddings told BANG Showbiz: "The thing about Adam is I was really unsure about booking them. It took them two years to persuade me. But Adam's great isn't he? All the girls love Adam. I kept getting all of these tweets and Facebook messages saying how much they love him. It's incredible. As for Brian May and Rodger Taylor, they are the biggest rock gods you could ever meet in your life. They are like Genesis; they are like Pink Floyd. They know the story, they've been through it."
The Isle of Wight Festival takes place June 9 to June 12 at Seaclose Park, Newport.
Go to Isleofwightfestival.com for tickets and more information.

Kanye West has changed three songs on his album Tidal.
The 38-year-old rapper released his album exclusively via the music streaming service - launched by his friend Jay Z - in February but now he has re-worked some of the songs saying his music is "living breathing" art.
He wrote on Twitter "Fixing Wolves 2day ... Worked on it for 3 weeks. Life Of Pablo is a living breathing changing creative expression. #contemporaryart (sic)"
Track 'Famous' now contains additional vocal layering for Rhianna's hook , 'Wolves', now has more prominent contributions from Vic Mensa and Sia, and Frank Ocean debuts on brand new song 'Frank's Track', a 38-second extension of 'Wolves' that contains his part from the original track.
Kanye is remaining in the studio and has already teased his next album will be called 'Turbo Grafx 16'.
He took to Twitter and joked his next musical offering will be named after a computer games console from the 1980s that he loved as a child.
He previously tweeted: "My next album is titled "Turbo Grafx 16" as of now... (sic)"
However, he seemed to back track, swiftly adding: "Just on some super nerd vibes ... one of my favourite gaming systems when I was a kid... (sic)"
Kanye - who is married to Kim Kardashian West - added: "Excited to see my family and finish the final mixes of the Life of Pablo and keep working on Turbo Grafx 16 and Season 4... sic)"

Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie believes streaming services have "destroyed" the music industry.
The 53-year-old musician thinks apps like Spotify has stopped fans from wanting to purchase records.
He said: "A guy here at the record company got me a Spotify account for free because I did a playlist for them.
"When the Savages album came out and I didn't have a chance to get to the record store, I listened to the first half on there and then a couple of weeks later, I went and bought the album. But the digital thing has destroyed music."
The 'Where The Light Gets In' hitmaker's teenage son streams music too but Bobby doesn't blame him as it's "just the culture they were born into".
He added: "He streams [music] but he also watches YouTube. He loves music but he wouldn't buy it. It's just the culture they were born into.
"You can't turn it back but as an artist, I have to try and express myself and the best way to do that is to make albums."
And Bobby claims he isn't able to earn much money "from my hard work and my art anymore".
He told BBC News: "It's impossible to earn a living from making records unless you're Adele.
"At the level we're at and a lot of other people are at, you've just got to get out and play lots of gigs, but it means the gig circuit is choc-a-block."

Good Charlotte have written a song with Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil for their new LP.
The 'Makeshift Love' hitmakers are making their comeback with their sixth studio album later this year - the follow-up to 2010's 'Cardiology' - and have revealed their collaboration with the 'Mountains' rocker which they are very excited for their fans to hear.
Good Charlotte vocalist Joel Madden revealed: "This needed to be more than just a throwback, but it pulls in all our favourite parts of all the records we've made from the high-energy pop-punk stuff to straight-up pop. It's got the heaviest song we've ever done, called 'War', and we even co-wrote a song on their with Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro."
Good Charlotte - which also includes Joel's twin brother Benji Madden, Billy Martin, Paul Thomas and Dean Butterworth - feel like a completely new band and hope this new record will show they are a "positive force" on the music scene.
Benji told Rock Sound magazine: "It feels brand new again. I want this band to live like it did in the beginning of our career, before some of the love got beaten out of us. This should be a destination for the misfits who don't have anywhere else to go, something that can encourage other artists to collaborate and look out for each other. We want to be a positive force in the industry."
Good Charlotte's new album will be released this summer.

Grimes was electrocuted on stage at her concert in Dublin last night (15.03.16).
The 'Oblivion' singer was performing at the Olympia Theatre in the Irish capital when halfway through her set her guitar pedal developed a fault which caused her to suffer a mild electric shock.
In a Twitter post that has since been deleted, she wrote: "Dublin! 1 mil apologies that my pedal failed and I was electrocuted, but there are tears in my eyes that y'all were so so wonderful (sic)"
Grimes - whose real name is Claire Elise Boucher - later reassured fans that she was fine by responding to their comments on her Twitter account on Wednesday morning (16.03.16).
A concerned fan with the Twitter handle @iProvmusic wrote: "@Grimezsz amazing show in Dublin tonight, travelled all night from Cork ... so worth it, hope you are ok x (sic)"
And Grimes replied: "@iProvmusic i am fine - thank u for travelling !!! (sic)"
The pink-haired beauty also promised she'll return to Dublin for another gig.
She told a fan: "@LaurenceMackin hell yah, I need to come back any way to visit castles ... If y'all will have me back I badly wanna play a proper set (sic)"
Grimes, 27, is set to play Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival next month and will then head out on a world tour which includes shows in America, Britain and Europe.

Kanye West and Ellie Goulding have teamed up with Mumford & Sons to make an LP called 'Metamorphoses'.
The project is being helmed by Mumford keyboardist Ben Lovett and the Global Citizen organisation's co-founder Hugh Evans, who will produce the overall release that will also feature The National.
The 'All Day' rapper and 'Army' hitmaker have the challenge of sourcing lyrics for the album from their fans and then creating songs from the submissions.
Explaining the compilation in a statement, Ben said: "'Metamorphoses' has the potential to break down our preconceptions of the voices of creativity, what different people around the world are thinking and who has the right to be heard.
"Artists like Kanye West and The National are doing something globally important that is touching people down to their DNA. And these masterfully creative people are going to be interpreting incredible submissions from people across the globe."
The album is to have 12 songs in total and more artists are yet to be confirmed to be a part of the campaign.
The aim of the record is to help put an end to poverty around the world.
Fans can submit their lyrics to www.globalcitizen.org.
It's expected to be released this autumn.

Deadmau5 is hosting his own show on Apple Music's Beats 1 radio.
The Canadian electronic music producer-and-DJ - whose real name is Joel Thomas Zimmerman - will be debuting his show 'mau5trap presents' on the online 24-hour station this Friday (18.03.16).
His show was announced by the Beats 1 team via Twitter with the tweet: "HERE WE GO. @deadmau5 is coming to #Beats1 (sic)"
The show is expected to have a focus on electronic music although it is currently unclear if this will be a one off performance or an ongoing project.
Deadmau5, 39, has previously supported Jay Z's streaming service Tidal, but this latest move sees him reunite with Apple, with whom he has supported at the iTunes Music Festival in 2012 and 2014.
Beats 1 host Zane Lowe believes the Apple Music radio station appeals to artists because they have complete creative freedom to play what they want on their shows.
He said: "We don't tell any artist what to play, never ever put any creative restraint on what they want to do. The whole conversation just goes, 'Play what you want, do what you want. We're here to do any heavy lifting you want, but it's your vision, enjoy.' So that it's really quality, really consistent and it's just not boring."
Deadmau5 follows in the headphones of other stars Dr. Dre, Pharrell Williams, Major Lazer and Haim, who've all had shows on Beats 1.