{"id":1957,"date":"2008-11-01T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2008-11-01T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T15:49:28","slug":"lily-allen-smile-in-simlish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1957","title":{"rendered":"Lily Allen &#8211; Smile (in Simlish)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3M7WKNwww3M\">This<\/a> is the original video of the song &#8220;Smile&#8221; by Lily Allen .  It reveals a story of a girl who was dumped by an unfaithful boyfriend and who then takes revenge on him through proxies so that he doesn&#8217;t realize that she&#8217;s the one behind his various miseries.  Seeing him get his comeuppance is what makes her &#8220;smile&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And this is a video of the same, using Sims 2: <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rJsZhiOhUVg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJsZhiOhUVg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting to me is that vocals are convincingly delivered in &#8220;Simlish&#8221;, that goofy pseudo-language spoken by Sims. I&#8217;ve never been a fan of it.  It&#8217;s always sounded like an English speaker trying to speak another language, which makes it sound too much like baby talk. It has all the sounds and rhythms of English. There are better techniques for imitating language.<\/p>\n<p>But in any case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdigest.tv\/2007\/03\/lily_allen_join.html\">Lily Allen recorded the version linked above<\/a>, singing her own song in that nonsense-speak.  It was done as a promotion for one of The Sims 2 expansion packs, and someone actually used Sims 2 to make the video.  My hat is off to whoever got that job.  As someone who mucked about with Sims 2 taking screenshots and videos,  <a href=\"?p=1947\">I can attest to the fact that this must have taken bloody ages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the original video of the song &#8220;Smile&#8221; by Lily Allen . It reveals a story of a girl who was dumped by an unfaithful boyfriend and who then takes revenge on him through proxies so that he doesn&#8217;t realize that she&#8217;s the one behind his various miseries. Seeing him get his comeuppance is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast","tag-sims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}