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Ariana Grande performs new song 'Imagine' on 'Tonight Show'

By Wade Sheridan   |   Dec. 19, 2018 at 6:51 AM
Ariana Grande performed her single "Imagine" alongside The Roots on "The Tonight Show." File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Ariana Grande accepts the Best Pop award during the 35th annual MTV Video Music Awards on August 20. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI Ariana Grande arrives on the red carpet at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Benefit on May 7. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Ariana Grande delivered the first television performance of her new single "Imagine" on The Tonight Show.

Grande, dressed in a red sweater with white snowflakes, was joined by Tonight Show band The Roots on a darkly lit stage.

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"Click, click, click and post/ Drip-drip-dripped in gold/ Quick, quick, quick, let's go/ Kiss me and take off your clothes/ Imagine a world like that," Grande sang.

The singer also hit all of the tack's high notes as she closed out the performance, prompting an excited reaction from Fallon.

"Imagine," alongside "Thank U, Next," is expected to appear on Grande's upcoming fifth studio album.

Grande also joined Fallon and his former Saturday Night Live cast mates Horatio Sanz, Tracy Morgan and Chris Kattan to recreate their comedic holiday jam, "I Wish It Was Christmas Today."

The SNL crew first performed the song on the sketch-comedy series in 2000.