Simlish
Encyclopedia
Simlish is a fictional language
featured in EA Games' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter
, and has been especially prominent in The Sims
, The Sims 2
and The Sims 3
. The Sims development team created the unique Simlish language by experimenting with fractured Ukrainian
, French
, Latin
, Finnish
, English
, Fijian
and Tagalog
. Simlish can also be heard in SimCity 4
and SimCity Societies
, but far less frequently. Civilized Creatures in Spore
can also be taught to speak Simlish. It is also featured to an extent in the Firaxis game Sid Meier's SimGolf
. Designer Will Wright was conscious of the need for dialogue in the game, but thought that using a real language would make it sound too repetitive and would also be too costly to hire translators for world languages.
Initially, inspired by the Native American
code talkers of World War II
, Sims creator Will Wright and language expert Marc Gimbel suggested experimenting with the Navajo language
to create Simlish. However, they ultimately decided that Simlish worked best as a "language" made up of gibberish
words that couldn't be translated, so that its meaning would be left open to the imagination of the player. Wright later commented that using "nonsense language" turned out to be the right development choice, as people were capable of imagining it more realistically than a computer could simulate a real one. The actual sound of Simlish was created improvisationally by voice actors Stephen Kearin and Gerri Lawlor
.
es or fancy stereo
s since its inception; since Hot Date
, they have also heard music on wall speakers on Community lots.
In The Sims: House Party and The Sims: Vacation, Sims sing campfire songs. They are sung to the tune of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
", "Michael Row the Boat Ashore
" and "On Top of Old Smoky
". Lyrics for these songs were posted on the official website. A free full-length soundtrack album for The Sims: Superstar has also been released for download (complete with cover art), with several tracks sung in Simlish.
expansion packs University
and Nightlife
, rather than creating unique Simlish music, recording artists cut new performances of their songs with Simlish lyrics. These artists include Annie, All Time Low
, The Pussycat Dolls, Tata Young
, Cansei de Ser Sexy
, Reggie and the Full Effect
, Acceptance
, Go Betty Go
, Steadman
, Gabriella Cilmi
, The Faders
, Adam Freeland
, Luke Moses, DJ Hyper
, Aly & AJ
, Junkie XL
, Lemon Jelly
, MxPx
, Scary Kids Scaring Kids
, Timo Maas
, Paramore
, Barenaked Ladies
, Natasha Bedingfield
, Great Northern
, Lily Allen
, La Oreja de Van Gogh
, Katy Perry
, Lady Antebellum
, The Veronicas
, Trivium
and Something for Rockets
. The songs included in any one game depend on the localization. Kajagoogoo's Too Shy also appears on the New Wave music channel. Fellow Briton and synthpop artist Howard Jones
re-recorded his hit song "Things Can Only Get Better" in Simlish. It also appears on the New Wave channel.
Keke Palmer
contributed her song "The Game Song" from her album So Uncool
in Simlish for Fashion Stuff.
The Black Eyed Peas
also contributed by recording several exclusive songs for Urbz: Sims in the City. They also re-recorded "Shut Up" and "Let's Get It Started
". They released the EP "Let's Get It Started: The Urbz Edition" which features the English single version of the song and the Simlish version that was featured in the game, the EP also includes the Simlish song "Friddy Dope", that can be heard in the game, and a new English song, "The Sticky". The song is credited in the game, but can't be heard anywhere in it.
British electronic band Depeche Mode
recorded a Simlish-language version of their single "Suffer Well
" for Open for Business
.
Heavy metal
band Anthrax
made a Simlish version of their song "Now It's Dark" from their album State of Euphoria
in The Sims.
Barenaked Ladies
re-recorded three songs ("Easy", "What A Let Down", "Wind It Up") from Barenaked Ladies Are Me
in Simlish for inclusion on the Family Fun Stuff pack.
Skye Sweetnam
recorded her song "Boyhunter" in Simlish prior to its appearance on her album Sound Soldier.
Several artists re-recorded hit songs in Simlish for the expansion pack Pets
, including Aly & AJ
doing their "Chemicals React
" (The Simlish version of Chemicals React can be downloaded in iTunes
), The Flaming Lips
with "Free Radicals", The Pussycat Dolls with their top chart hit "Don't Cha
", The Format
with "The Compromise", and Saving Jane
with "Girl Next Door
". In the Spanish version, La Oreja de Van Gogh
remade their hit "Dulce Locura". The band Malbec
has also had their song "Given the Times" translated into Simlish.
Country artist Cowboy Troy
also recorded his song "I Play Chicken With the Train" in Simlish for an expansion.
Lily Allen
re-recorded her hit "Smile" in Simlish, which also has a music video, featuring a "sim Lily Allen". It has been watched over 6 million times on the site YouTube.
In the Seasons
expansion pack, The Veronicas
have re-recorded their single "When It All Falls Apart
". The Breadbox Band also added their song "N". Pop star Tata Young
contributed a Simlish version of her song "Zoom".
Natasha Bedingfield
has also recorded a new song in Simlish. The song, entitled "Pocketful of Sunshine
" (which is the from her U.S. version of N.B.
: Pocketful of Sunshine), appeared in Free Time.
Celtic
band Gaelic Storm
made a Simlish version of their song "Scalliwag" from their album Bring Yer Wellies
. It appears in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
and The Sims 2: Castaway
.
Katy Perry
's song "Hot n Cold
" features in The Sims 2: Apartment Life
.
Gabriella Cilmi
recorded "Sweet About Me
" in Simlish for The Sims 2.
Paramore
recorded "Pressure
" in Simlish for The Sims 2
on PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox.
In The Sims 2 for PS2
, Ryan Ferguson
's song "Suddenly" is "translated" to Simlish.
Metal act Trivium recorded "Like Light To Flies" in Simlish for The Sims 2.
Flyleaf
recorded their song "Cassie" in Simlish for The Sims 2
expansion pack Teen Style Stuff
Nelly Furtado
recorded "Manos al Aire
" in Simlish for The Sims 3: World Adventures
. A music video was also uploaded to YouTube
.
Also Katie Melua
's "If the Lights Go Out" (originally sung by The Hollies
) was featured in "World Adventures", and can also be found on YouTube.
It also has been revealed that the song "Savior" by Rise Against
will have a Similish version in the upcoming EP The Sims 3: Ambitions, as it is confirmed and is in the trailer for the EP.
Matt and Kim did their song "Daylight" in Simlish with a video for World Adventures that can be seen on the sims3 website.
The songs "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum, "Animal" by Neon Trees, "Cooler Than Me" by Mike Posner
, "Shark In The Water" By VV Brown
(as featured in a Degrassi Promo for Season 10) and "Pyramid" by Charice were recorded in Simlish for the expansion pack The Sims 3: Ambitions.
Pixie Lott
recorded her song "Mama Do" in Simlish for The Sims 3: World Adventures
Kerli recorded her song "Tea Party" and Daisy Dares You
recorded her song "Number One Enemy" in Simlish for The Sims 3
.
My Chemical Romance
's song "Na Na Na" was recorded in Simlish for The Sims 3: Late Night and 3OH!3
's song "Double Vision" was recorded for the trailer and The Sims 3 on console.
Jessica Mauboy
recorded "Saturday Night
" in Simlish.
All Time Low
frontman Alex Gaskarth announced via Twitter
that he had recorded one of their songs in Simlish. It appears in The Sims 3: Generations
and is known as "Time Bomb".
Plan B
recorded the song "Stay Too Long
" for The Sims 3: Pets and the song was featured on this expansion's trailer.
Cassie Steele
recorded the song "Summer Nights", from her 2009 album Destructo Doll
, for The Sims 3: Pop Station.
Blush
recorded their song "Undivided" featuring Snoop Dog for The Sims 3: Pets.
Erasure
recorded their single "When I Start To (Break it all Down)" in Simlish, which appears in The Sims 3 - Pets, which was released in the USA on October 18, 2011 and in the UK on October 21.
Dexter Freebish's "Pretty People" was used in The Sims 2: University, and "The Other Side" is featured in The Sims 3.
Sign
s in The Sims games usually do not contain text, but consist entirely of graphics
. For example, a pet shop sign in Unleashed displays a paw, a stop sign
in Hot Date displays a white hand, and in The Sims 2
the sign for a grocery store
depicts a cornucopia
.
In The Sims, the headline The SimCity
Times is visible on the daily newspaper
, in English and in a font similar to Comic Sans MS.
In The Sims 2, most text is only distinguishable at very close zooms. On book covers, newspapers and Nightlife's "Sims Must Wash Hands
" sign, the lettering is all nonsense characters that bear about as much resemblance to Latin characters as they do to Cyrillic. Almost no actual characters from any known alphabet are used. When Sims are writing novel
s or term papers, dingbat
s from the Wingdings
font appear as text on the screen. The notebooks used for homework
contain writing composed of random lines.
In The Sims 2, Simlish words occasionally appear on television screens. They are written in the same Simlish alphabet described above, or using the font Wingdings
to produce symbols like Aum
or Zodiac
signs. In The Sims 2 University, eight "SimGreek Letters" appeared as signs intended for fraternity and sorority
houses. University also contains the most unambiguous existence of actual English language in the whole The Sims 2 series; the words "Open house" are shown on a decorative noteboard on the top right announcement various times. It can only be seen at a very close zoom and is slightly garbled because of the JPEG
compression
. Most other appearances of English are logos for Maxis, Electronic Arts, or GameSpot
. Also, the video games SSX3, The Sims Bustin' Out
, SimCity 4
and The Sims 3
(available exclusively in Mr. Humble's Computer object in FreeTime, brought by Mr. Humble, a Rod Humble
Sim character), found on the Sims' computers and TVs have numbers and English letters and a rug from the H&M Fashion stuff pack features the letters H&M. The marketing of The Sims 2: Free Time contains excerpts from phony "hobby magazines" with front cover texts bearing some resemblance to the Latin alphabet. For instance, one magazine about car restoration has a title which can be read as "skitbil", meaning "shit car" or "shitty car" in Swedish
. In Create-A-Sim some of the clothing has writing on it too.
Sleeping Sims are illustrated by Z
s floating around their heads, as is usual in comics.
If the Seasons EP is installed, when Sims play Marco Polo, they say Timla Turno, a reference to Tim LeTourneau, one of the producers.
Also when a vehicle
arrives on the lot, the number plate shows real numbers; similarly, police cars in the game have the numbers 329
on top of them. When a Sim plays on the electronic entertainment, "EA Games" is mentioned in English, but "Challenge Everything" is in Simlish.
In The Sims Online
, however, all text is in English.
In a trailer for The Sims 3
, a billboard in the town shown in the video depicting a local celebrity displays the words Coming Soon, with the letters only being turned to different directions. The rest of the text on the billboard is in the usual Simlish, and is unreadable.
, Steve, an entity you find in the center of the galaxy, will speak Simlish instead of the chosen language, although in the American version, he speaks in the chosen language.
And many, many, many more.
Fictional language
Fictional languages are by far the largest group of artistic languages. Fictional languages are intended to be the languages of a fictional world and are often designed with the intent of giving more depth and an appearance of plausibility to the fictional worlds with which they are associated, and...
featured in EA Games' Sim series of games. It debuted in SimCopter
SimCopter
SimCopter is a 1996 computer game from Maxis. This game is a 3D offshoot from Maxis's normal fare, putting the player into a 3D city. Like Streets of SimCity, SimCopter lets the user import SimCity 2000 maps into the game.- Objective :...
, and has been especially prominent in The Sims
The Sims
The Sims is a strategic life-simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. Its development was led by game designer Will Wright, also known for developing SimCity...
, The Sims 2
The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. It was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port to Apple Mac OS X...
and The Sims 3
The Sims 3
The Sims 3 is a 2009 strategic life simulation computer game developed by The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims 2. It was first released on June 2, 2009 simultaneously for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows...
. The Sims development team created the unique Simlish language by experimenting with fractured Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
, Finnish
Finnish language
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, Fijian
Fijian language
Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 450,000 first-language speakers, which is less than half the population of Fiji, but another 200,000 speak it as a second language...
and Tagalog
Tagalog language
Tagalog is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines and as a second language by most of the rest. It is the first language of the Philippine region IV and of Metro Manila...
. Simlish can also be heard in SimCity 4
SimCity 4
SimCity 4 is a city-building/urban planning simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. It was released on January 14, 2003. It is the fourth installment in the SimCity series. SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which adds features to the game...
and SimCity Societies
SimCity Societies
SimCity Societies received mixed reviews. GameZone praised the game's increased accessibility and less "sterile" gameplay compared to previous titles in the SimCity series, and Game Informer concluded that the changes to the gameplay were "inventive"...
, but far less frequently. Civilized Creatures in Spore
Spore (2008 video game)
Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore...
can also be taught to speak Simlish. It is also featured to an extent in the Firaxis game Sid Meier's SimGolf
Sid Meier's SimGolf
Sid Meier's Sim Golf is a computer game created by Sid Meier, Firaxis, and Maxis in 2002. In the game, players must successfully design golf courses and play them with their default professional golfer, Gary Golf...
. Designer Will Wright was conscious of the need for dialogue in the game, but thought that using a real language would make it sound too repetitive and would also be too costly to hire translators for world languages.
Initially, inspired by the Native American
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
code talkers of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Sims creator Will Wright and language expert Marc Gimbel suggested experimenting with the Navajo language
Navajo language
Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan language spoken in the southwestern United States. It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages .Navajo has more speakers than any other Native American language north of the...
to create Simlish. However, they ultimately decided that Simlish worked best as a "language" made up of gibberish
Gibberish
Gibberish is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning. This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook. The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can be described as a presence of nonsense...
words that couldn't be translated, so that its meaning would be left open to the imagination of the player. Wright later commented that using "nonsense language" turned out to be the right development choice, as people were capable of imagining it more realistically than a computer could simulate a real one. The actual sound of Simlish was created improvisationally by voice actors Stephen Kearin and Gerri Lawlor
Gerri Lawlor
Gerri Lawlor is an American actress and voice actor. She is the co-creator, along with Marc Gimbel and Stephen Kearin, of the fictitious Simlish language used in The Sims....
.
Music
Sims have been able to listen to Simlish music on their cheap boomboxBoombox
Boombox is a colloquial expression for a portable cassette or CD player. Other terms known are ghetto blaster, jambox, or radio-cassette. It is a device capable of receiving radio stations and playing recorded music , usually at relatively high volume...
es or fancy stereo
STEREO
STEREO is a solar observation mission. Two nearly identical spacecraft were launched into orbits that cause them to respectively pull farther ahead of and fall gradually behind the Earth...
s since its inception; since Hot Date
The Sims: Hot Date
The Sims: Hot Date is the third expansion pack released for the strategic life-simulation computer game The Sims developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts...
, they have also heard music on wall speakers on Community lots.
In The Sims: House Party and The Sims: Vacation, Sims sing campfire songs. They are sung to the tune of "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
"She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" is an American folk song often categorized as children's music. It is a derivation of a Negro spiritual known as "When the Chariot Comes"....
", "Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Michael, Row the Boat Ashore is an African-American spiritual. It was first noted during the American Civil War at St. Helena Island, one of the Sea Islands of South Carolina....
" and "On Top of Old Smoky
On Top of Old Smoky
"On Top of Old Smoky" is a traditional folk song and a well-known ballad of the United States which, as recorded by The Weavers, reached the pop music charts in 1951....
". Lyrics for these songs were posted on the official website. A free full-length soundtrack album for The Sims: Superstar has also been released for download (complete with cover art), with several tracks sung in Simlish.
Outside artists
For The Sims 2The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. It was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port to Apple Mac OS X...
expansion packs University
The Sims 2: University
The Sims 2: University is the first expansion pack for the strategic life simulation computer game The Sims 2 developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It was released on March 1, 2005 to mixed reception. The expansion pack adds a new aging period to Sims which is Young Adult...
and Nightlife
The Sims 2: Nightlife
The Sims 2: Nightlife is the second expansion pack for The Sims 2, which was released on September 13, 2005 and September 16, 2005 . It was released for Mac OS X on March 27, 2006...
, rather than creating unique Simlish music, recording artists cut new performances of their songs with Simlish lyrics. These artists include Annie, All Time Low
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American pop punk band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2003.The band consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Alexander Gaskarth, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Jack Barakat, bassist and backing vocalist Zachary Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson...
, The Pussycat Dolls, Tata Young
Tata Young
Amita Marie Young , better known under her stage name Tata Young, is a Thai singer, model actress and dancer....
, Cansei de Ser Sexy
Cansei de Ser Sexy
CSS is a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo. The band was labeled as part of the explosion of the New Rave scene. Their songs are in both English and Portuguese...
, Reggie and the Full Effect
Reggie and the Full Effect
Reggie and the Full Effect was a Kansas City indie rock band, the solo project for The Get Up Kids keyboardist James Dewees.-Early years, Greatest Hits 1984-1987, Promotional Copy and Under the Tray :...
, Acceptance
Acceptance (band)
Acceptance was an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1998. They released their first EP, Lost for Words, in 2000, followed by Black Lines to Battlefields in 2003...
, Go Betty Go
Go Betty Go
Go Betty Go was an all-girl punk rock band from Los Angeles that, along with bands such as Union 13, Los Abandoned and Left Alone, were prominent in the southern California Chicano Punk scene in the mid-2000s.-History:...
, Steadman
Steadman
Steadman is a British indie rock band, formed in Hastings in 1998. The band's original name was The Dharmas, but they changed the name after they canceled their contract with the label Arista, and signed with lead singer Simon Steadman's own label, Freeloader Recordings. Steadman's first album,...
, Gabriella Cilmi
Gabriella Cilmi
Gabriella Lucia Cilmi is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2008, Cilmi was awarded six ARIA awards including Single of the Year and Best Female Artist....
, The Faders
The Faders
The Faders were a British female pop rock band, formed in January 2004 by Polydor Records. Bassist/keyboardist Toy Valentine and drummer Cherisse Osei were the first members to get through the first audition...
, Adam Freeland
Adam Freeland
Adam Freeland is an English DJ and producer associated with breakbeat based electronic music. He was a resident of Brighton, moved to Los Angeles where he recorded second album Cope™ but is now based back in Brighton...
, Luke Moses, DJ Hyper
DJ Hyper
DJ Hyper is a British DJ, producer and remixer who has releases on labels such as Distinct'ive Breaks Records, Bedrock Records, and Positiva Recordings. He has done remixes for artists such as BT and Paul Van Dyk. He has also performed as a band under the Hyper moniker, featuring Prodigy members...
, Aly & AJ
Aly & AJ
78violet is a pop rock band consisting of sisters Alyson and Amanda Michalka. They were born in Torrance, California, but spent part of their childhood in Seattle, Washington. They are both actresses, singer-songwriters, and guitarists. They signed a record deal with the Disney-owned label,...
, Junkie XL
Junkie XL
Tom Holkenborg , better known as Junkie XL or JXL, is a Dutch musician. He uses the name JXL in cases where the term "Junkie" might cause offense. XL is for "Xpanding Limits"....
, Lemon Jelly
Lemon Jelly
Lemon Jelly is a British electronic music duo from London, formed in 1998. Since their inception, the band's line-up has included Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen. Lemon Jelly has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and BRIT Awards....
, MxPx
MxPx
MxPx is a pop punk band from Bremerton, Washington with connections to the Christian punk scene. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four EPs, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....
, Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Scary Kids Scaring Kids was an American post-hardcore band formed in Gilbert, Arizona in 2002. The band's name comes from the Cap'n Jazz song of the same name...
, Timo Maas
Timo Maas
Timo Maas is an electronic music DJ/producer and remixer.-Career:Maas bought his first set of turntables at the age of 17, and played his very first DJ set in 1982 at a party in his friend's home...
, Paramore
Paramore
Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York...
, Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
, Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...
, Great Northern
Great Northern (band)
Great Northern is a rock group from Los Angeles composed of lead vocalist/keyboardist Rachel Stolte, guitarist Solon Bixler , bassist Matt Roveto, and drummer Justin Rocherolle...
, Lily Allen
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper , better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative...
, La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh is a Latin Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated Spanish pop band from Donostia-San Sebastian. The name of the band refers to the famous post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh who cut off the lobe of his own ear...
, Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
, Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum is an American country pop music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. The trio is composed of Charles Kelley , Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott .The group made its debut in 2007 as guest vocalists on Jim Brickman's single "Never Alone", before signing to Capitol...
, The Veronicas
The Veronicas
The Veronicas are an Australian electrorock, pop-punk and rock band. Twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso formed the band in 1999 in Brisbane. They have their own line of clothing which was released in 2007....
, Trivium
Trivium (band)
Trivium is an American heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999. Signed to Roadrunner Records, the band has released five studio albums, eleven singles, and twelve music videos...
and Something for Rockets
Something for Rockets
Something for Rockets was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band included Rami Perlman , Josh Eichenbaum and Barry Davis...
. The songs included in any one game depend on the localization. Kajagoogoo's Too Shy also appears on the New Wave music channel. Fellow Briton and synthpop artist Howard Jones
Howard Jones (musician)
Howard Jones is a musician, singer and songwriter. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "Jones is an accomplished singer-songwriter who was a regular chart visitor in the mid 1980s with his brand of synthpop. Jones, who was equally popular in the U.S., appeared at Live...
re-recorded his hit song "Things Can Only Get Better" in Simlish. It also appears on the New Wave channel.
Keke Palmer
Keke Palmer
Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer is an American actress and singer who rose to fame for her performance in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. She also starred as the title character in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP...
contributed her song "The Game Song" from her album So Uncool
So Uncool
"Keep It Movin is the first official single from of Keke Palmer's debut album, So Uncool. It was sent to US Mainstream radio on August 7, 2007. It failed to chart.-Music video:...
in Simlish for Fashion Stuff.
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas are an American pop group , formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1995. The group includes rappers will.i.am, apl.de.ap, and Taboo, and singer Fergie. Since the release of their third album Elephunk in 2003, the group has sold an estimated 56 million records worldwide...
also contributed by recording several exclusive songs for Urbz: Sims in the City. They also re-recorded "Shut Up" and "Let's Get It Started
Let's Get It Started
"Let's Get It Started", , appears on The Black Eyed Peas' 2003 album Elephunk. It is the fourth single from the album...
". They released the EP "Let's Get It Started: The Urbz Edition" which features the English single version of the song and the Simlish version that was featured in the game, the EP also includes the Simlish song "Friddy Dope", that can be heard in the game, and a new English song, "The Sticky". The song is credited in the game, but can't be heard anywhere in it.
British electronic band Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
recorded a Simlish-language version of their single "Suffer Well
Suffer Well
"Suffer Well" is the third single off the album Playing the Angel by Depeche Mode, and their forty-third single overall. It was released in the UK on 27 March 2006.It is the first Depeche Mode single whose lyrics are written by Dave Gahan...
" for Open for Business
The Sims 2: Open for Business
The Sims 2: Open for Business is the third expansion pack for The Sims 2, released on March 3, 2006, which allows Sims to run a home or community lot based business. Aspyr released a port of the game for Mac OS X on September 4, 2006...
.
Heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
band Anthrax
Anthrax (band)
Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...
made a Simlish version of their song "Now It's Dark" from their album State of Euphoria
State of Euphoria
State of Euphoria is the fourth studio album by the American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was released on September 19, 1988 through Megaforce/Island Records.-Album information:...
in The Sims.
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies
Barenaked Ladies is a Canadian alternative rock band. The band is currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart. Barenaked Ladies formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, then a suburban municipality outside the City of Toronto...
re-recorded three songs ("Easy", "What A Let Down", "Wind It Up") from Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Barenaked Ladies Are Me is the seventh full-length original-material studio album by Barenaked Ladies. It was their first original-material album since 2003's Everything to Everyone. It was released in September 2006 internationally...
in Simlish for inclusion on the Family Fun Stuff pack.
Skye Sweetnam
Skye Sweetnam
Skye Alexandra Sweetnam is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and music video director. Skye first entered the mainstream in 2003 with the release of her debut single "Billy S." Over a year later, her debut album, Noise from the Basement, was released including the singles "Tangled Up in Me"...
recorded her song "Boyhunter" in Simlish prior to its appearance on her album Sound Soldier.
Several artists re-recorded hit songs in Simlish for the expansion pack Pets
The Sims 2: Pets
The Sims 2: Pets is the fourth expansion pack in The Sims 2 series of games, as well as a stand-alone game for several consoles. It is published by Electronic Arts...
, including Aly & AJ
Aly & AJ
78violet is a pop rock band consisting of sisters Alyson and Amanda Michalka. They were born in Torrance, California, but spent part of their childhood in Seattle, Washington. They are both actresses, singer-songwriters, and guitarists. They signed a record deal with the Disney-owned label,...
doing their "Chemicals React
Chemicals React
"Chemicals React" is a pop rock song written and recorded by American pop rock duo Aly & AJ, for the re-release of their debut album Into the Rush...
" (The Simlish version of Chemicals React can be downloaded in iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
), The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...
with "Free Radicals", The Pussycat Dolls with their top chart hit "Don't Cha
Don't Cha
"Don't Cha" is the debut single by American R&B/pop girl group the Pussycat Dolls. The song was originally recorded by American recording artist Tori Alamaze, and was released as her debut single in March 2005, on Universal Records. After Universal Records dropped her from the label, Cee-Lo Green...
", The Format
The Format
The Format was an American indie rock band formed by Arizona natives Nate Ruess and Sam Means. The band announced a hiatus on February 4, 2008. Their style can be considered a mixture of indie, alternative, punk and folk music, with elements of 1960s and 1970s pop music...
with "The Compromise", and Saving Jane
Saving Jane
Saving Jane is a band from Columbus, Ohio who are most famous for their hit songs "Girl Next Door", "Come Down To Me", and "SuperGirl".-2002-2008: Girl Next Door, One Girl Revolution & SuperGirl:...
with "Girl Next Door
Girl Next Door
Girl Next Door may refer to:* Girl next door, a cultural stereotypeFilm* The Girl Next Door , a TV movie starring Tracey Gold* The Girl Next Door , featuring porn star Stacy Valentine...
". In the Spanish version, La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh
La Oreja de Van Gogh is a Latin Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated Spanish pop band from Donostia-San Sebastian. The name of the band refers to the famous post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh who cut off the lobe of his own ear...
remade their hit "Dulce Locura". The band Malbec
Malbec
Malbec is a purple grape variety used in making red wine. The grapes tend to have an inky dark color and robust tannins, and are long known as one of the six grapes allowed in the blend of red Bordeaux wine. The French plantations of Malbec are now found primarily in Cahors in the South West...
has also had their song "Given the Times" translated into Simlish.
Country artist Cowboy Troy
Cowboy Troy
Troy Lee Coleman III is an American musician, better known by his stage name Cowboy Troy, who performs country rap. He is a member of the MuzikMafia, an aggregation of country music singer-songwriters whose membership also includes Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and James Otto...
also recorded his song "I Play Chicken With the Train" in Simlish for an expansion.
Lily Allen
Lily Allen
Lily Rose Beatrice Cooper , better known as Lily Allen, is an English recording artist and fashion designer. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative...
re-recorded her hit "Smile" in Simlish, which also has a music video, featuring a "sim Lily Allen". It has been watched over 6 million times on the site YouTube.
In the Seasons
The Sims 2: Seasons
-Reception:-External links:*...
expansion pack, The Veronicas
The Veronicas
The Veronicas are an Australian electrorock, pop-punk and rock band. Twin sisters Jessica and Lisa Origliasso formed the band in 1999 in Brisbane. They have their own line of clothing which was released in 2007....
have re-recorded their single "When It All Falls Apart
When It All Falls Apart
"When It All Falls Apart" is the third single released from The Veronicas' debut album The Secret Life of... on 21 March 2006. It has been certified Gold for sales over 35,000 units in Australia. "When It All Falls Apart" charted within the ARIA Top 20 for 14 weeks. It was to be released in the UK...
". The Breadbox Band also added their song "N". Pop star Tata Young
Tata Young
Amita Marie Young , better known under her stage name Tata Young, is a Thai singer, model actress and dancer....
contributed a Simlish version of her song "Zoom".
Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter. Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...
has also recorded a new song in Simlish. The song, entitled "Pocketful of Sunshine
Pocketful of Sunshine (song)
"Pocketful of Sunshine" is a pop song performed by Natasha Bedingfield for her second North American album Pocketful of Sunshine. It was released as the album's second single in 2008. The single was supposed to be released in the UK as Natasha's second single from the re-release of N.B. on 7 July...
" (which is the from her U.S. version of N.B.
N.B. (album)
N.B. is the second studio album released by British singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. It was released in the UK on 30 April 2007 through Phonogenic Records. Upon release the album was praised for Bedingfield's vocals and the fun theme to the records however some critics were disappointed...
: Pocketful of Sunshine), appeared in Free Time.
Celtic
Celtic music
Celtic music is a term utilised by artists, record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe...
band Gaelic Storm
Gaelic Storm
Gaelic Storm is a Celtic band. Their music includes traditional Irish music, Scottish music, and original tunes in both the Celtic and Celtic rock genres...
made a Simlish version of their song "Scalliwag" from their album Bring Yer Wellies
Bring Yer Wellies
Bring Yer Wellies is the sixth album by Celtic band Gaelic Storm. It was released on July 25, 2007. "Wellies" is a nickname for Wellington boots, which feature prominently in the lyrics of "Kelly's Wellies" and on the album cover.-Track listing:...
. It appears in The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
The Sims 2: Bon Voyage
The Sims 2: Bon Voyage is the sixth expansion pack released in The Sims 2 series of PC games. It was released on September 4, 2007 in North America and September 6, 2007 in Europe for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. For the Mac OS X Operating System, it was released on December 17, 2007 by...
and The Sims 2: Castaway
The Sims 2: Castaway
The Sims 2: Castaway is the third console spin-off of the video game The Sims 2. It was released in the United States on October 22, 2007 and October 26, 2007 in the United Kingdom for the Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The Sims 2: Castaway is offered on mobile platforms....
.
Katy Perry
Katy Perry
Katy Perry is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised by Christian pastor parents, Perry grew up listening to only gospel music and sang in her local church as a child. After earning a GED during her first year of high school, she began to pursue a...
's song "Hot n Cold
Hot N Cold
"Hot n Cold" is a song by American singer Katy Perry. The song was written and composed by Dr. Luke, Max Martin, and Perry for her major mainstream debut album, One of the Boys. The track was released as the album's third single...
" features in The Sims 2: Apartment Life
The Sims 2: Apartment Life
The Sims 2: Apartment Life is the eighth and final expansion pack in the The Sims 2 video game series.A flyer included in later copies of The Sims 2: FreeTime expansion pack and The Sims 2: Kitchen & Bath Interior Design Stuff Pack announced Apartment Life, which brings magic back to the franchise...
.
Gabriella Cilmi
Gabriella Cilmi
Gabriella Lucia Cilmi is an Australian singer-songwriter. In 2008, Cilmi was awarded six ARIA awards including Single of the Year and Best Female Artist....
recorded "Sweet About Me
Sweet About Me
"Sweet About Me" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter Gabriella Cilmi from her debut album, Lessons to Be Learned . Co-written with and produced by Xenomania, it was released in April 2008 as the album's lead single. The song was used in commercials for Sure and Dove Bodywash in Europe, as...
" in Simlish for The Sims 2.
Paramore
Paramore
Paramore is an American rock band from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band consists of lead vocalist Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York...
recorded "Pressure
Pressure (Paramore song)
"Pressure" is a song by American rock band Paramore. It was released on June 31, 2005 as the first single from their debut album, All We Know Is Falling. It failed to chart the Billboard Hot 100, however, it managed to peak at #62 on the Billboard Hot Digital Songs chart...
" in Simlish for The Sims 2
The Sims 2 (console game)
The Sims 2 is the fourth title in The Sims console series. The Sims 2 was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and PSP in the fourth quarter of 2005. The console versions include a story and gameplay similar to previous versions of the game, while...
on PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox.
In The Sims 2 for PS2
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan...
, Ryan Ferguson
Ryan Ferguson
Ryan Ferguson is an Indie Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter, formerly of Southern California band No Knife. Ferguson's solo debut Three, Four was released in July 2005, winning a San Diego Music Award for “Best Pop Record” that year. The Sims 2 featured an interpretation of the album's lead...
's song "Suddenly" is "translated" to Simlish.
Metal act Trivium recorded "Like Light To Flies" in Simlish for The Sims 2.
Flyleaf
Flyleaf
Flyleaf is an American alternative metal band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop and Christian metal genres. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005....
recorded their song "Cassie" in Simlish for The Sims 2
The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. It was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port to Apple Mac OS X...
expansion pack Teen Style Stuff
Nelly Furtado
Nelly Furtado
Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...
recorded "Manos al Aire
Manos al Aire
"Manos al Aire" is a Latin pop song recorded by Canadian recording artist Nelly Furtado. Written by Furtado, Alex Cuba and James Bryan, it was produced by Furtado and Bryan for the former's fourth studio album, Mi Plan...
" in Simlish for The Sims 3: World Adventures
The Sims 3: World Adventures
During an interview, producer Lyndsay Pearson said that real-world locations were a draw for their players and that users had been creating famous buildings on the exchange. The expansion pack represented an extension of that desire...
. A music video was also uploaded to YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
.
Also Katie Melua
Katie Melua
Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British-Georgian singer, songwriter and musician. She moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then to England at fourteen. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt, and made her musical debut in 2003...
's "If the Lights Go Out" (originally sung by The Hollies
The Hollies
The Hollies are an English pop and rock group, formed in Manchester in the early 1960s, though most of the band members are from throughout East Lancashire. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style, they became one of the leading British groups of the 1960s and 1970s...
) was featured in "World Adventures", and can also be found on YouTube.
It also has been revealed that the song "Savior" by Rise Against
Rise Against
Rise Against is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1999. The band currently consists of Tim McIlrath , Zach Blair , Joe Principe and Brandon Barnes .Rise Against spent its first five years signed to the independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, on which it...
will have a Similish version in the upcoming EP The Sims 3: Ambitions, as it is confirmed and is in the trailer for the EP.
Matt and Kim did their song "Daylight" in Simlish with a video for World Adventures that can be seen on the sims3 website.
The songs "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum, "Animal" by Neon Trees, "Cooler Than Me" by Mike Posner
Mike Posner (musician)
Michael Robert "Mike" Posner is an American singer, songwriter, and producer. Posner released his debut album, 31 Minutes to Takeoff, on August 10, 2010...
, "Shark In The Water" By VV Brown
VV Brown
Vanessa Brown , also known as VV Brown, is an English singer, songwriter, model, and producer signed to Island Records in the United Kingdom and to Universal Republic Records and Capitol Records in the United States...
(as featured in a Degrassi Promo for Season 10) and "Pyramid" by Charice were recorded in Simlish for the expansion pack The Sims 3: Ambitions.
Pixie Lott
Pixie Lott
Victoria Louise "Pixie" Lott is an English singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. Her debut single "Mama Do" was released in June 2009 and went straight to number one in the UK Singles Chart. Her second single "Boys and Girls", also topped the UK charts in September 2009. Her debut album Turn It...
recorded her song "Mama Do" in Simlish for The Sims 3: World Adventures
Kerli recorded her song "Tea Party" and Daisy Dares You
Daisy Dares You
Daisy May Keeley Coburn , better known by her stage name Daisy Dares You, is a British singer and songwriter. The stage name is a direct reference to the character of the same name from the 1990s British television show ZZZap!.-Early life:...
recorded her song "Number One Enemy" in Simlish for The Sims 3
The Sims 3
The Sims 3 is a 2009 strategic life simulation computer game developed by The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims 2. It was first released on June 2, 2009 simultaneously for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows...
.
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance
My Chemical Romance is an American alternative rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, guitarists Ray Toro and Frank Iero, and bassist Mikey Way and have a diverse sound incorporating elements of punk, emo, glam metal, and progressive rock...
's song "Na Na Na" was recorded in Simlish for The Sims 3: Late Night and 3OH!3
3OH!3
3OH!3 is an American electro hop duo from Boulder, Colorado, made up of Sean Foreman and Nathaniel Motte. They are best known for their single "Don't Trust Me" from their album Want, which reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100...
's song "Double Vision" was recorded for the trailer and The Sims 3 on console.
Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Mauboy
Jessica Hilda Mauboy , is an Indigenous Australian R&B singer-songwriter and actress. In 2006, Mauboy was the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol, she had auditioned for the talent show in Alice Springs to pursue a recording career...
recorded "Saturday Night
Saturday Night (Jessica Mauboy song)
"Saturday Night" is a song by Australian recording artist Jessica Mauboy, featuring American rapper Ludacris. It was released as the second single from Mauboy's second studio album, Get 'Em Girls, on 27 October 2010. The song was written by Angie Iron, Ludacris and Brian Kennedy, who also handled...
" in Simlish.
All Time Low
All Time Low
All Time Low is an American pop punk band from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2003.The band consists of vocalist and rhythm guitarist Alexander Gaskarth, lead guitarist and backing vocalist Jack Barakat, bassist and backing vocalist Zachary Merrick, and drummer Rian Dawson...
frontman Alex Gaskarth announced via Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
that he had recorded one of their songs in Simlish. It appears in The Sims 3: Generations
The Sims 3: Generations
The Sims 3: Generations is the fourth expansion pack for The Sims 3, which EA announced by press release and video trailer on April 5, 2011. The game was released on May 31, 2011...
and is known as "Time Bomb".
Plan B
Plan B
Plan B is a popular term used to mean a reserved, secondary plan, in case a first plan fails. Plan B is also an FDA-approved emergency contraception drug.It also may refer to:-People:...
recorded the song "Stay Too Long
Stay Too Long
"Stay Too Long" is the first single from British rapper Plan B's second album The Defamation of Strickland Banks. The single was released on 8 January 2010. Australian-British electronic rock and drum 'n' bass group Pendulum also produced a remix, their first in three years, which was used as...
" for The Sims 3: Pets and the song was featured on this expansion's trailer.
Cassie Steele
Cassie Steele
Cassandra Rae "Cassie" Steele is a Canadian actress and singer-songwriter best known for portraying Manny Santos on Degrassi: The Next Generation.-Life and career:...
recorded the song "Summer Nights", from her 2009 album Destructo Doll
Destructo Doll
Destructo Doll is Canadian actress and singer-songwriter Cassie Steele's second studio album. It was released on July 21, 2009. Steele co-wrote or wrote all of the songs on Destructo Doll. It was announced on Cassie Steele's official fan website that "Go Dark" will be the second official single...
, for The Sims 3: Pop Station.
Blush
Blush (Asian band)
Blush is a pop music girl group composed of five members from the Phillipines, India, China, Japan, and South Korea. They were formed by FarWest Entertainment in 2010 with the intent of popularizing an Asian vocal act in the United States as well as all of Asia...
recorded their song "Undivided" featuring Snoop Dog for The Sims 3: Pets.
Erasure
Erasure
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
recorded their single "When I Start To (Break it all Down)" in Simlish, which appears in The Sims 3 - Pets, which was released in the USA on October 18, 2011 and in the UK on October 21.
Dexter Freebish's "Pretty People" was used in The Sims 2: University, and "The Other Side" is featured in The Sims 3.
Written Simlish
Information sign
An information sign is a very legibly printed and very noticeable placard that informs people of the purpose of an object, or gives them instruction on the use of something. An example is a traffic sign such as a stop sign....
s in The Sims games usually do not contain text, but consist entirely of graphics
Graphics
Graphics are visual presentations on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, computer screen, paper, or stone to brand, inform, illustrate, or entertain. Examples are photographs, drawings, Line Art, graphs, diagrams, typography, numbers, symbols, geometric designs, maps, engineering drawings,or...
. For example, a pet shop sign in Unleashed displays a paw, a stop sign
Stop sign
A Stop sign is a traffic sign to notify drivers that they must stop before proceeding.-Specifications:The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals proposed standard stop sign diameters of 0.6, 0.9 or 1.2 metres. UK and New Zealand stop signs are 750, 900 or 1200 mm, according to sign...
in Hot Date displays a white hand, and in The Sims 2
The Sims 2
The Sims 2 is a strategic life simulation computer game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims, which debuted on February 4, 2000. It was first released on September 14, 2004 for Microsoft Windows. A port to Apple Mac OS X...
the sign for a grocery store
Grocery store
A grocery store is a store that retails food. A grocer, the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and sells these "groceries" to customers. Large grocery stores that stock products other than food, such as clothing or household items, are...
depicts a cornucopia
Cornucopia
The cornucopia or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, nuts, other edibles, or wealth in some form...
.
In The Sims, the headline The SimCity
SimCity
SimCity is a critically acclaimed city-building simulation video game, first released in 1989, and designed by Will Wright. SimCity was Maxis' first product, which has since been ported into various personal computers and game consoles, and spawned several sequels including SimCity 2000 in 1994,...
Times is visible on the daily newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
, in English and in a font similar to Comic Sans MS.
In The Sims 2, most text is only distinguishable at very close zooms. On book covers, newspapers and Nightlife's "Sims Must Wash Hands
Hand washing
Hand washing for hand hygiene is the act of cleaning the hands with or without the use of water or another liquid, or with the use of soap, for the purpose of removing soil, dirt, and/or microorganisms....
" sign, the lettering is all nonsense characters that bear about as much resemblance to Latin characters as they do to Cyrillic. Almost no actual characters from any known alphabet are used. When Sims are writing novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
s or term papers, dingbat
Dingbat
A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character"....
s from the Wingdings
Wingdings
Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes...
font appear as text on the screen. The notebooks used for homework
Homework
Homework, or homework assignment, refers to tasks assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside of class. Common homework assignments may include a quantity or period of reading to be performed, writing or typing to be completed, problems to be solved, a school project to be built...
contain writing composed of random lines.
In The Sims 2, Simlish words occasionally appear on television screens. They are written in the same Simlish alphabet described above, or using the font Wingdings
Wingdings
Wingdings are a series of dingbat fonts which render letters as a variety of symbols. They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes...
to produce symbols like Aum
Aum
Om or Aum Om or Aum Om or Aum (also , written in Devanāgari as and as , in Sanskrit known as (lit. "to sound out loudly"), ', or ' (also as ') (lit. "Auṃ form/syllable"), is a sacred/mystical syllable in the Dharmic or Indian religions, i.e...
or Zodiac
Zodiac
In astronomy, the zodiac is a circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude which are centred upon the ecliptic: the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year...
signs. In The Sims 2 University, eight "SimGreek Letters" appeared as signs intended for fraternity and sorority
Fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...
houses. University also contains the most unambiguous existence of actual English language in the whole The Sims 2 series; the words "Open house" are shown on a decorative noteboard on the top right announcement various times. It can only be seen at a very close zoom and is slightly garbled because of the JPEG
JPEG
In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....
compression
Data compression
In computer science and information theory, data compression, source coding or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation would use....
. Most other appearances of English are logos for Maxis, Electronic Arts, or GameSpot
GameSpot
GameSpot is a video gaming website that provides news, reviews, previews, downloads, and other information. The site was launched in May 1, 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. It was purchased by ZDNet, a brand which was later purchased by CNET Networks. CBS Interactive, which...
. Also, the video games SSX3, The Sims Bustin' Out
The Sims Bustin' Out
The Sims Bustin' Out is the second title in The Sims console series. Bustin' Out was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and N-Gage in the fourth quarter of . As the title suggests, the Sims can get out of the house to visit other locations such as Shiny Things...
, SimCity 4
SimCity 4
SimCity 4 is a city-building/urban planning simulation computer game developed by Maxis, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts. It was released on January 14, 2003. It is the fourth installment in the SimCity series. SimCity 4 has a single expansion pack called Rush Hour which adds features to the game...
and The Sims 3
The Sims 3
The Sims 3 is a 2009 strategic life simulation computer game developed by The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims 2. It was first released on June 2, 2009 simultaneously for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows...
(available exclusively in Mr. Humble's Computer object in FreeTime, brought by Mr. Humble, a Rod Humble
Rod Humble
Rod Humble is the Chief Executive Officer of Second Life creator Linden Lab, and former Executive Vice President for the EA Play label of the video game company Electronic Arts. He has been contributing to the development of games since 1990, and is recently best known for his work on the...
Sim character), found on the Sims' computers and TVs have numbers and English letters and a rug from the H&M Fashion stuff pack features the letters H&M. The marketing of The Sims 2: Free Time contains excerpts from phony "hobby magazines" with front cover texts bearing some resemblance to the Latin alphabet. For instance, one magazine about car restoration has a title which can be read as "skitbil", meaning "shit car" or "shitty car" in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
. In Create-A-Sim some of the clothing has writing on it too.
Sleeping Sims are illustrated by Z
Z
Z is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-Name and pronunciation:In most dialects of English, the letter's name is zed , reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta but in American English, its name is zee , deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal...
s floating around their heads, as is usual in comics.
If the Seasons EP is installed, when Sims play Marco Polo, they say Timla Turno, a reference to Tim LeTourneau, one of the producers.
Also when a vehicle
Vehicle
A vehicle is a device that is designed or used to transport people or cargo. Most often vehicles are manufactured, such as bicycles, cars, motorcycles, trains, ships, boats, and aircraft....
arrives on the lot, the number plate shows real numbers; similarly, police cars in the game have the numbers 329
300 (number)
300 is the natural number following 299 and preceding 301.- Mathematical properties :It is a triangular number and the sum of a pair of twin primes , as well as the sum of ten consecutive primes...
on top of them. When a Sim plays on the electronic entertainment, "EA Games" is mentioned in English, but "Challenge Everything" is in Simlish.
In The Sims Online
The Sims Online
The Sims Online was a massively multiplayer online variation on Maxis's highly popular computer game The Sims. It was published by Electronic Arts and released on December 17, 2002 for Microsoft Windows. In March 2007, EA announced that the product would be re-branded as EA-Land and major...
, however, all text is in English.
In a trailer for The Sims 3
The Sims 3
The Sims 3 is a 2009 strategic life simulation computer game developed by The Sims Studio and published by Electronic Arts. It is the sequel to the best-selling computer game, The Sims 2. It was first released on June 2, 2009 simultaneously for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows...
, a billboard in the town shown in the video depicting a local celebrity displays the words Coming Soon, with the letters only being turned to different directions. The rest of the text on the billboard is in the usual Simlish, and is unreadable.
Outside of The Sims
Throughout the 'Sim' genre created by Will Wright, nearly all games will use Simlish in the same manner that The Sims did. For instance, in Sim City 4 and Sim City Societies, citizens can be heard conversing if one zooms close enough. In a similar manner, creatures created with a primate mouth in Spore will also converse in Simlish, and hovering above a city will inspire gibberish conversation from the masses below. Also, in other regional versions of the game SporeSpore (2008 video game)
Spore is a multi-genre single-player god game developed by Maxis and designed by Will Wright. The game was released for the Microsoft Windows and Macintosh operating systems in September 2008 as Spore...
, Steve, an entity you find in the center of the galaxy, will speak Simlish instead of the chosen language, although in the American version, he speaks in the chosen language.
External links
- Spot On: Simlish stylist Robi Kauker. Simlish music in The Sims 2: University
- Some songs in Simlish. Official The Sims 2 Site.
- Official Simlish Lessons. Official The Sims Site.
- The Big Simlish Dictionary The Big Simlish Dictionary thread on The Sims 2 Forum (BBS)
Music videos
- Lily Allen - Smile (Simlish) Music Video - Lily Allen's "Smile" in Simlish
- Datarock Music Video at YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Natasha Bedingfield "Pocket Full of Sunshine" in Simlish at YouTube
- Katy Perry - Hot N' Cold (Simlish) Music Video - Katy Perry's "Hot N' Cold" in Simlish.
- Nelly Furtado "Manos al Aire" in Simlish at YouTube
- Ludo's "Love Me Dead" in Simlish at YouTube
- Paramore's "Pressure" in Simlish at YouTube
- Trivium's "Like Light to the Flies" in Simlish at YouTube
- Black Eyed Peas "Shut Up" in Simlish at YouTube
- Black Eyed Peas "Friggy Dope" in Simlish at YouTube
- Black Eyed Peas "Share The Luv" in Simlish at YouTube
- Black Eyed Peas "I know You Wanna" in Simlish at YouTube
- Black Eyed Peas "Keep Bouncing" in Simlish at YouTube
- Kitty Shack's "Another World" in Simlish at YouTube
- Flyleaf "Cassie" in Simlish at YouTube
- Aly & AJ "Chemicals React" in Simlish at YouTube
- Matt and Kim "Daylight" in Simlish at YouTube
- Abra Moore "Big Sky" in Simlish at YouTube
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxWm62htkv4 The Ready Set - More Than Alive (Simlish)
And many, many, many more.