Friday, September 26, 2008

The Music of Simlish



Katy Perry doing her song Hot N Cold in Simlish as part of the trailer for Sims 2: Apartment Life. For those not in the know, Simlish is the fake language used in the Sims games, which helps give them their international appeal or somesuch. I'm not sold on Ms Perry as a particularly wonderful human being but this is one fine, fine trailer. Almost makes me want to play The Sims again.

While we're on the subject of Simlish-meets-singing, I thought I might direct your attention to some other gems of game-related re-recording that you may or may not have been aware of. By and large they don't run to my tastes in music but almost anything can become listenable in Simlish. Check 'em out:

Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get Retarded

Lily Allen - Smile

Pussycat Dolls - Don'tcha

The Veronicas - When It All Falls Apart

Datarock - Fa-Fa-Fa

They Might Be Giants - Take Out The Trash

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

TMBG has done songs in Simlish...
or is that covered in the missing Post?

Anonymous said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og16E8ORP1Yxkxhqjrm

Greg Tannahill said...

Bam! Missing post is back! Now you can roll around in Simlish music like pigs in mud.