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Sul Sul! Behind the gibberish language of The Sims

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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Sims - Music for the Original Sims

In the game, your sim can also listened to the radio and tune in to different stations. That means they needed songs in a bunch of different genras. For instance, will wright specifically wanted a bassa nova song for the latin station. For the country station, they brought in a live grass band. Now some of these songs were instrumental, but others needed vocals, simlish vocals. So jerry had to coach these studio musicians to sing in simlish. According to him, the key is to mumble.

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