GameSpot caught up with a number of musicians who lent their talent for both The Sims 3 Late Night and The Sims 3 for Consoles. Mickey Factz who did “Dreamland” for The Sims 3 on console, along with King Fantastic (artists Killer Reese One and Troublemaker), Hadag Nahash (Guy Mar), and Electrolightz (Eroc, Name Brand, Rami Dearest, and Barry Romance) for The Sims 3: Late Night chime in with their input on what it was like to sing in Simlish.

GS: What were some of the challenges to creating music for The Sims? What was that experience like?

MF: Well, I played Sims one time, and I remembered they had this language called Simlish. I had to rerecord the verse a gazillion times! But I was definitely satisfied with the end result.

KRO: Rapping something that you have written in English to a specific tempo in Simlish is hard as f***.

TM: I laughed watching the above. It was fun.

GM: The recording for The Sims 3 was based on our song “Lo Maspik” (“Not Enough,” in Hebrew), which is coming out now with a new video made in 360-degrees technology. It will be the third video ever to be made that way, worldwide. EA asked us to record the song in Simlish, which was very fun and challenging. We got completely different lyrics, which gave the song a new international feeling. It sounded like Spanish, German, and Japanese all together–pretty different than the original Hebrew lyrics! We ended up sitting in the studios and studying a whole new language. It wasn’t easy, matching the Simlish with the way our language sounds, and it was a hilarious experience. But we love gadgets and games, and it was pretty cool trying something this different, especially for a game like The Sims!

EL (Name Brand): Recording for The Sims was probably the most difficult studio session. The translation of the Sims language was not that easy, but overall it was a hilarious and fun experience doing this particular record. Hearing Rami translate his singing had me on the floor laughing my butt off. Great times!

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