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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.

IIRC from watching the video a couple days ago he has more examples than just Prince of Persia where western musicians will use "Persian" in either the generic titles of their bland background music, or use it interchangeable when describing the music and inspiration.

Although I guess the latter being used interchangeably might be your point? Or do you mean westerners literally do not think of or use the term Persia or Persian?

If by "people", do you mean the average everyday person in America? Then yeah I mean I can see what you're saying, most people, in that sense, make no distinction between Middle Eastern identities.

But if you mean "people", being the "people" producing hours long mixes on YouTube and Spotify, who are the ones making revisionist claims that the sounds people will hear are authentic to some ethnic identity, then I would like to offer a counterexample. Namely, there are channels with videos such as this one, which say things like,

Embark on a journey to the ancient city of "Uruk," a legendary Sumerian city. In this track I've used the zither, oud, and ney flute, accompanied by the rhythmic beats of the riq and qanun, and of course, a chamber orchestra. Hopefully this track transports you to a bygone era of splendor and wisdom.

And of course this is just one example, but there are tons of other examples out there of this, some of which belong to the YouTube channel I've shared.

In your original comment, you say that you went to a random point in the video and that your impression was that his "Iranness is really shining through". Now, this is just my assumption, but to me this read like that you are saying that your impression of him was that he is being culturally snobbish about Persian music, and idk, that seems kind of problematic to me because ethnic identity, music, and people being educated about both those things on the internet are very intertwined, and I think it's kind of shitty to characterize him this way without seeing the video first, especially when the content of the video seeks to give some education about Persian music, and it's impact culturally. Maybe you could elaborate more about what you meant by that?