David Rees, Get Your War On Cartoonist, Makes Aphex Twin/Taylor Swift Mash-Up Album

David Rees is the cartoonist most famous for his cartoon Get Your War On. He’s also the creator of AphexSwift, as NME points out. Yes, it’s a mash-up album that finally puts together the work of Aphex Twin and Taylor Swift. Listen to the whole thing below.

In a blog post, Rees argued that Richard D. James “is as big a romantic cornball as Taylor Swift”.

“For instance, Taylor Swift made her name by writing big-hearted confessional songs for tween girls,” he wrote. “But a lot of Aphex Twin’s music (especially on the Richard D. James Album, from which most of these tracks are culled) is also super romantic—saccharine, even.”

Part two of his thesis: “Taylor Swift is just as scary as Aphex Twin.” He says that Swift’s “incredible poise and superhuman competence are, to me, just as alien and intimidating as Aphex Twin’s photoshopped leering ghoul-faces” and calls her lyrics “sorta cruel and sadistic in a classic ‘mean girl’ way.” 

I know some ppl think #AphexSwift was a big goof, but I truly think @AphexTwin & @taylorswift13 are AMAZING songwriters #respect

— David Rees (@david_rees) October 24, 2014

Rees’ Get Your War On ran from 2001 to 2009. He’s currently the star of the National Geographic Channel series Going Deep with David Rees.

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