Looking to have a quiet night in, all huddled up in a blanket burrito sipping a cup of Earl Grey? Then do not listen to Dillon Francis’ new album, Money Sucks, Friends Rule. Seriously, this set of 12 bangers is pretty much the antithesis of getting lost in your duvet.

The LP won’t see its official release until October 27, but you can stream it right now, in full, at DillonFrancis.MTV.com.

The music producer’s debut full-length album is also as packed with features as it is beats, boasting cameos from Twista, DJ Snake, Martin Garrix, Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco (“Love In The Middle Of A Firefight”) and Major Lazer — and that’s literally only, like, half of them.

Burn your blankets now.

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Stop swiping your card and/or doing the Nae Nae, Harmonizers, because we’ve got some huge Fifth Harmony news for you. Same goes for you, Millertary enlistees, because your boy, Jake Miller, and the ladies of 5H will both perform live from Miami during the 2014 MTV EMA kickoff special.

Jake’s even going to co-host the event. See? We told you that you’d want to listen.

Related: 2014 MTV EMA Nominations — Get The Full List

The 2014 MTV EMA will air on MTV channels worldwide, and the U.S. telecast will kick off live from Miami’s Klipsch Amphitheater at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT with co-hosts Jake Miller, Nick Cannon and Molly Tarlov, plus performances from Fifth Harmony and Nick Jonas.

Across the pond, Nicki Minaj will host of the 2014 EMA from the SSE Hydro arena in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as perform. Other previously announced performers include Calvin Harris, Charli XCX, Kiesza, Royal Blood, Ariana Grande and Ed Sheeran, and metal legend Ozzy Osbourne will be honored with the Global Icon Award.

Related: Check Out Highlights From The 2013 MTV EMA

We’ve still got a few weeks to go until America’s reigning girl group — I mean, they’re nominated for the Best U.S. Act EMA for a reason — and the MTV Artist To Watch slay the EMA kickoff stage. That should (hopefully) give us enough time to emotionally prepare for what’s ...

Oscar de la Renta died on Monday (October 20) at the age of 82.

His wife of 25 years, Annette de la Renta, confirmed the news to The New York Times. The world-renowned fashion designer also leaves behind four step-children from his two marriages.

ABC News reports that he was diagnosed with cancer in 2006. This has not been confirmed as the cause of death at press time.

Born in the Dominican Republic in 1932, de la Renta has designed for Lanvin and Balmain throughout his storied career, not to mention his own namesake fashion house.

His work was perhaps best worn by A-list actresses and First Ladies of the United States, from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Michelle Obama. Most recently, he designed the wedding gown worn by Amal Clooney at her September wedding to George Clooney.

Not long after the news broke, Vogue posted a loving tribute on Instagram, writing: “The ‘King of Evening’ will be forever remembered.”

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When Taylor Swift said she was “Out Of The Woods” last week, she meant it pretty literally. Her new song off of 1989, “Welcome To New York,” is about one thing and one thing only: the city she now calls her home.

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“Walking through a crowd, the Village is aglow,” the 24-year-old singer opens the track, which was released on Monday (October 20). “Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats/ Everybody here wanted something more/ Searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before.”

While that’s certainly the narrative of a “new” New Yorker, Taylor has admitted that she sees the city with only the widest of “wide-eyed optimism.”

In fact, she’s “dreamt” about and “obsessed” over moving to New York for years. I mean, just look at the lyrics to her Speak Now single, “Mean”: “Someday I’ll be living in a big ol’ city/ And all you’re ever gonna be is mean.”

Sure, she forgot to mention them Scottish Folds, but she laid out the basic framework a long time ago.

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“Welcome To New York” was written by Swift and Ryan Tedder, who also produced the song. It will serve as the opening track on Taylor’s upcoming fifth studio album, 1989, which will be released on October 27.

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This past weekend, a video of a turtle reportedly “twerking” to Jason Derulo’s “Wiggle” under a water faucet hit YouTube, and the devastating effects of his much-publicized indiscretion are already palpable.

According to the Completely Fictional Center For Turtle Health And Well-Being, twerking among turtles is up 31 percent in the 18-49 year old demographic since the video’s upload on Saturday (October 18).

Perhaps even more concerning, a shocking 57 percent rise in twerk-related activity has been documented in the under-18 set of impressionable, hard-shelled youths.

This increase comes at the cost of a variety of turtle activities, like turtle-homework, turtle-prayer group, turtle-recycling and turtle-remembering to call your mother. And turtle experts — a noted field of professionals I’m certainly not making up right now for the purposes of satire — fear that this phenomenon will only continue.

When reached for comment, one turtle expert had this to say:

Perhaps we’re already too late.

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To paraphrase a great book I once read: You may think you know Charli XCX, but you have no idea.

Wait, no — that was MTV’s “Diary.”

Whatever, the point still stands. Over the past 18 months, MTV’s latest Artist To Watch has broken into the mainstream thanks to features on Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy” and Icona Pop’s “I Love It” (which she co-wrote), followed by her own solo single on the “Fault In Our Stars” soundtrack, “Boom Clap.”

All three songs landed in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, but if they’re all you know about Charli, then you’ve got some stuff to learn.

Related: Watch Videos, Live Performances And Interviews At CharliXCX.mtv.com

Who She Is

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Charli XCX was born Charlotte Emma Aitchison in the U.K. — Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England to be exact.

She’s 22 years old, and she’s technically only released one album so far, 2013′s True Romance. I say “technically” because her “real” first full length, 2008′s 14, was a promotional LP recorded with the support of her parents in order to book gigs, and it was never officially made available anywhere. (Though you can definitely find the gnostic collection if you look in the right places…)

The point is that Charli was already recording albums and playing shows when she was only 14 years old, and what have I even done ...