Weekly Music Round-Up: PSY Is Bringing Forth The Apocalypse, Mac Miller Has A TV Show, And Fat Joe Didn’t Pay His Taxes

Philosophical question: What if the apocalypse actually did happen at 6:11 this morning and nobody noticed? Like, what if the Mayans’ prediction that our epoch was going to end and a new one was to began didn’t mean that the world was going to end, but actually just that a bunch of stuff about our society was going to subtly change? Think about it. Instagram decided it could sell all of our photos so evil advertising companies. Everyone is making friends over the Internet. A$AP Rocky made a song with Skrillex. SoundCloud looks different now. DON’T YOU SEE HOW IT’S ALL CHANGED??? Anyways, this is pretty much the last day at the Noisey office until 2012, and it’s weirdly warm outside. It’s not Shorts Weather or anything, but it’s not exactly freezing. I’ve only really worn gloves out to the bar on, like, one night all December. That means something. Anyways, here’s what happened in mainstream music news this week that you didn’t hear about:

PSY, that kinda fat America-hating, imaginary horse-riding K-Pop dude, surpassed a billion views on YouTube. I’m pretty sure there’s some sort of Nostradamus prophecy that says once PSY hits a billion views on YouTube we’re all fucked. Oh, I just googled it and you can read about how we’re all supposed to be dead here. Oh well. Gangnam Style is the ultimate proof that every generation gets the “Macarena” it deserves.

In this week’s “Mild Racism” news, Kanye West has been left off of the 12-12-12 Concert DVD because Racism. But then again, neither is the Paul McCartney/Nirvana two-headed Monster Of Rawk, probably because Ageism.

Metallica is bringing their Orion Festival to Detroit! If I had my way, that would mean that the Orion lineup would only consist of acts from Detroit, meaning that Danny Brown, Insane Clown Posse, Black Milk, The Dirtbombs, Kid Rock, Eminem, Esham, The Stooges, Juan Atkins, Derrick May, His Name Is Alive, and a reunited White Stripes would play Orion next year. But that won’t happen because no one has good ideas ever.

Some smartass redid a bunch of Christmas songs in the style of various indie bands and it’s great.

American Icon putting his name is scare quotes for some reason own reality show on MTV2

TIME FOR CHARTZXOXOXOXOX: As Christmas approaches (Holy shit it’s Tuesday I literally haven’t bought any Christmas presents yet dear Jesus), more people start buying CDs to give as gifts. This means a bunch of people bought Taylor Swift’s CD, as well as Bruno Mars’ and One Direction’s. For some reason nobody bought Big Boi’s album, which is a fucking bummer. It’s fine because nobody bought Green Day’s newest CD either.

The Round-Up is taking a break next week but will be back in 2013. Happy Holidays, you bastard.

Drew Millard hates according to this column, but is actually really nice according to real life. He’s on Twitter – @drewmillard