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Iggy Azalea is making a documentary.
The 'Fancy' hitmaker is currently working on her second album and has teased fans can expect a special film which will follow her creating the collection.
Asked if there would be a deluxe version of the album in a brief Twitter Q&A, she said: "i dont plan on doing a deluxe, just a standard. also there is a documentary being made about it to watch. (sic)"
Iggy - who got engaged to her long-term boyfriend, basketball player Nick Young earlier this year - also teased fans can expect to begin hearing her new music next year, having already completed six tracks.
She added: "Im in the studio as i type this, things are going great & moving along. 6 songs completed on the album. (sic)"
It was recently revealed the 25-year-old star will feature on the next album from her pal Demi Lovato, months after Iggy ditched her North American 'Great Escape' tour to follow a "creative change of heart".
She said at the time: "I've had a different creative change of heart. I want to start totally anew, and if I stayed on my tour, that would mean I wouldn't even be able to start working on that until after Christmas."

Prince has compared record contracts to "slavery".
The 57-year-old musician has slammed record labels for their tight control of artists, insisting new acts shouldn't sign album deals because they will get turned into "indentured servitude."
He said: "Record contracts are just like -- I'm gonna say the word - slavery.
"I would tell any young artist ... Don't sign."
The iconic musician made the comment after revealing he would be releasing his new album 'HitNRun' exclusively through Jay Z's streaming service Tidal in order to sidestep labels.
Although Prince confirmed he does intend to issue a physical release of the album - due next month - he insisted it's vital both artists and consumers support Tidal as it represents artists taking control of their careers.
Speaking to a group of reporters at his Paisley Park Studios in Minneapolis, he said: "Once we have our own resources, we can provide what we need for ourselves.
"Jay Z spent $100 million of his own money to build his own service. We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves."
It's not the first time the 'Little Red Corvette' singer has compared the industry to slavery though, having appeared in public with "slave" written across his cheek in 1993 during a battle with his record label Warner Bros.

Joss Stone doesn't want to be a celebrity.
The 'Super Duper Love' hitmaker is "trying to fight" being a celebrity and just wants to be able to perform and make music.
She said: "I'm really trying to fight against this celebrity thing. I just want to sing and give concerts. And in order to do that, you don't really have to buy into all this celebrity stuff."
The 28-year-old singer wants people to "talk about my music and lyrics" because she makes that "public", but everything else, she thinks should be allowed to be kept private.
She told the German edition of Glamour magazine: "I would much prefer it if people would only talk about my music and my lyrics That's the part of my life I make public. Other things I want to keep to myself."
Joss also previously admitted she is not in this industry to make money and doesn't care if people download her music for free, despite not being pleased with the "bad quality" the bootleg version of her album has.
She previously told the Mail on Sunday newspaper: "To be honest, I don't care about the money. I don't care about people getting music for free as long as they are listening.
"What bothers me is if people are listening to bad quality recordings of music. The bootleg version of my album has the worst sound quality. That kills me.
"You work really hard, you get everything absolutely right and you want people to hear this sound you have created."

FKA Twigs thinks artists are too afraid to express themselves because "they think that's a bit too weird".
The 'Pendulum' hitmaker admitted she is "a bit mad" but that is a good thing because it allows her to be herself in her music, which she thinks is something some people hide from.
Asked where she gets her ideas for songwriting, she said: "From my brain. I think I'm a bit mad. I don't even think it's that. I think other people have ideas, but they think that's a bit too weird ... I just believe it's really important to push intelligence. I don't want to push boundaries, I want to push ideas."
When it comes to her schedule and the projects she chooses to take on FKA Twigs - real name Tahliah Debrett Barnett - is solely in control of everything.
She told the Sunday Times magazine: "No one tells me what to do. I'm not like a package pop star.
"For my next album I want to write my own music because it'll make me feel more in control of my career. This is what I've always been."
However, if someone else makes her feel "weird" about herself then she won't attempt to work with them.
She added: "If someone makes me feel weird about myself, then I just stop talking to them. I walk away all the time."

Kodaline have rejected "a lot of offers" to collaborate with other acts.
The Irish rockers confessed they have been approached on several occasions to record collaborative tracks with other artists but they have never been convinced to agree to record with someone else because they're too "focused" on their own band.
Bassist Jason Boland exclusively told BANG Showbiz: "There's been a lot of offers but you never know with those things whether they're going to come out or what's going to become of them. But we're really focused on our own thing at the moment and getting our own thing down before we start going out and seeing what other people say."
The band - also featuring Mark Prendergast, Steve Garrigan and Vinny May - released their second studio album 'Coming Up for Air' earlier this year, but are now spending their time touring and starting to "push" themselves while writing new music.
Steve said: "I think we're becoming more of a band because we're sharing the songwriting a lot more. And we're better musicians because we've played live so much. But we do push ourselves to try more stuff."

Foxes will "definitely" collaborate with Pharrell Williams.
The 26-year-old singer got to know the musician while supporting him on the European leg of his 'Dear Girl' tour last year and revealed while the pair are yet to write or record together, it is something both of them are hoping to do at some point in the future.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, she explained: "He's quite busy and I've been quite busy, so we've discussed it [collaborating] but it's not happened yet. My second record is done, so it probably wouldn't be for mine, but things in the future, definitely. It will be cool to do when the time's right."
Foxes - who previously topped international charts when she collaborated with Zedd on the 2012 hit 'Clarity' - said she is particularly excited about making music with the eight-time Grammy Award winning star because he was "really sweet" when they got to hang out with each other on tour.
Asked if she got to spend much time with the 42-year-old producer, she said: "Yeah I did, a lot! He was really sweet, just really chilled out, really nice, so we did a lot. It was really cool."
And although the 'Happy' hitmaker is known worldwide, the brunette beauty - whose real name is Louisa Rose Allen - insisted she wasn't starstruck when they first met because he was so welcoming.
She added: "The idea of him makes me feel starstruck but I wasn't actually. But he doesn't act like that, he made me feel very comfortable."

Ella Eyre doesn't think she could have coped with overnight success.
The 21-year-old singer signed her record deal in 2012 but is only just readying her debut album, and thinks having a few years to develop as an artist has helped her career "massively".
Asked if she sees waiting for success as a positive thing, she said: "100 per cent. I've massively grown up emotionally and as an artist over the last couple of years.
"Waiting for success makes it all the more worthwhile when it does come.
"I don't know how I'd have coped if things had happened overnight as it does with 'X Factor' contestants."
Ella - who is dating Rixton's Lewi Morgan - has penned all her record 'Feline' herself and finds it "funny" listening back to some of the songs she wrote in the early days of her career.
She told OK! magazine: "I say that if It comes from the heart then it will go to the heart and that's what I try and live by.
"I'd never let anyone write a song for me. It's about all of my experiences growing up. Stuff people can relate to.
"It's so funny listening back to how I used to deal with break-ups when I was 16."

Katy Perry feels like she has "entered a food-eating competition".
The 'Dark Horse' hitmaker is currently making the most of having time off from her busy tour schedule and indulging in some calorific treats.
She said: "Right now, I'm off tour for the summer and it's almost like I've entered a food-eating competition which lasts three months! So I'm really enjoying myself."
When she isn't keeping in shape with her intense dance routines, Katy enjoys staying trim by going hiking with her friends as it means she can fit in a catch up at the same time as exercising.
She told LOOK magazine: "I think a very easy, no money way to stay in shape is to go on wonderful hikes with your girlfriends.
"Which is great because, sometimes, you find you can't keep up with all your friends - you want to spend time with them, so then you're kind of working out and catching up at the same time.
"But my tour definitely keeps me in shape when I'm on one."
The 30-year-old pop star admires her friend Kate Hudson's figure and wishes she was as "committed" to looking after herself as her pal.
She said: "My friend Kate Hudson continues to look fantastic and she's had two kids, but she's very natural, healthy, and she does an alkaline diet.
"She's very committed and hopefully one day I will be able to be that committed."

Carly Rae Jepsen has written a song about masturbation.
The 'I Really Like You' hitmaker has revealed she penned the steamy song along with collaborator Bonnie McKee while working on her third album 'Emotion' but swiftly decided it was too explicit to feature on the record.
Asked if she has boundaries with her songwriting, she said: "I have no rules. I'm laughing because near the end of the album you just have to try everything, at least that's my theory on it. You've just got to let yourself explore ... So I worked with this amazing artist called Bonnie McKee, who I worked on 'Kiss' [Carly's 2012 album] with, and we got in the room and we were both in a really weird mood and we wrote a song about, basically being alone ... Trying to find a delicate way to say this. It rhymes with contemplation ..."
Interrupting her, someone shouted: "Masturbation?"
She continued: "Thank you! I couldn't say it myself. Anyways, about five minutes into it I was like, 'You know this isn't making my album right?' and we were like, 'Well whatever, let's just go with it.' And it was so fun to just let yourself ... Because I write for the joy of it and you've gotta let yourself go everywhere."
And although the 29-year-old star vowed never to use the song, she was shocked to discover a Chinese band have secured the track for themselves, unaware of what the saucy lyrics mean.
Speaking on New York radio show 'Zach Sang & The Gang', she said: "We were kind of laughing a little bit later on because it got picked up actually. There's a group in China that wants to make it their next single, and we were like, 'Alright! I wonder if they know what it means?'"