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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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Thoughts on BF2's MEC theme?
The intro to me sounds more like actual middle eastern music than the rest, but I also don’t recognize the specific instruments used. The rest of it seems to have some bluesy slide guitar and some of the orchestral strings playing the harmonic minor mode that’s showcased a lot in the video. So some pretty classic orientalist tropes, which makes sense. It’s a neat song. I hadn’t heard it before. Looks like it was written by 3 Swedish men? It doesn’t seem like they have any training in middle eastern music, but it’s hard to find info on them.
Wow, impressive analysis. I think I could've named 'guitar, maybe' and that's it.
Yeah, not too surprising it's tropey. The Battlefield Franchise has always been pretty 'Good Guys vs Russia Iran Chinabad'... Although not to the extent of Call Of Duty - they're so deep in propaganda they literally had a level called 'Highway Of Death' where they simply reversed it so Russia committed it rather than America...
Yeah, Swedish is likely - the old (and current to a lesser extent) battlefield games were all Swedish developers. EA Sarl, iirc.
Solid tune though, tropey as it may be. Battlefields most recent game doesn't even have a soundtrack - it's just ambient futuristic droning noises in all the loading screens. Pretty sad really, because the Battlefield soundtracks have always been top notch.