I can't make out the English words to "Hush," but I sure can sing: "Meep meep! Mush mush, eeb la jeep!"

Too shy shy, hush hush eye to eye!
It's funny, but in Sims 3 there is a kids' radio station, and one of the songs there has the same (simlish) lyrics.
At about 50 seconds onward of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra1GFTNcTO8
Compared with Kajagoogoo Too Shy at 1.12 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZSGbAFNVwU

For me it was Smile by Lily Allen and Love is Wicked by Brick and Lace. I loved those songs back when Bon Voyage was the only EP I owned and those songs were a staple at the Twikki Beach Hotel. It was a huge miss that they didn't simify Pon De Replay by Rihanna for Bon Voyage.

That's funny, I just learned that one existed in Simlish yesterday and immediately had to give it a listen (my Bon Voyage disc broke somehow and I never replaced it, so I never had it installed).

I have heard most of the pop music for the first time in the Sims. It comes from a different time period where wasn't following music. Too bad the recordings are in poor quality at 128 kbit/s and likely transcoded. High quality versions can't be found. There are a few on single releases.

I've collected most of the music on albums But I've not found "Unthinkable" by Joanna J and "Angels" by Hope in English. For Hope, only one mutt-rip album from 2010 exists.



"Simlish" music reminds me time when I was a child and couldn't discern words in music and made up my own. There are websites for "misheard lyrics" with funny lines that people have heard during moments of unclear pronunciation.

Some performers include more English words like "police car", "roll call", "blame the color" and "hang around" (Suburbia / Inbuglorbia).

Or Damian Marley- 'Majaica Majaica' in 'Welcome to Jamrock'.

I always wanted to hear an English version of Go Betty Go's Very Very Rich Town, but not found one yet.

I think that one might be Simlish-only. Same with Aff Wubbas Do from college rock ('W of P3' is Walt Szalva) and 'It Wouldn't Be So Bad' from new wave.

Yes I think it might be, I've not even found a live recording of it. They were prolific playing in the bars around the area of the EA studios, but their recorded catalog isn't huge. Good band though, they recently got back together and they recorded something new last year.

The College Rock station is just pure awesomeness.

I still think of the Simlish version Katy Perry's Hot & Cold first when I hear that song.


I don't think I'd ever loaded the Fruitville Village lot before today. Oof. Why are the freezer units outside under an awning? Why are the bathrooms each big enough to hold a dance party? Why are the columns Asian and the lamps Middle Eastern? Why use the blue flower recolor of the rug when there's a pineapple recolor right there? Anyway I'm redesigning it into a mini Dole Plantation-esque tourist trap.

Great to see you back Andrew, and glad you had fun at Pride <3

How many songs are in the game on that station? I see that the Spotify playlist with the English version of the songs only has 16 of them - that's way too little for how good these sound!

Italian village with 46 residents has 30 local election candidates

Sims 2 politics career?

This is what the process of taking my next generational photo looks like:
I'll post it in like 5 hours, when I finally pose everyone. Update: It's finished!

I wish I knew how to take photos like these...

Poseboxes, a teleporter object, an external screenshot program, and the pause key. A mod to disable the pause red outline, if you like.

Start off by setting up the screenshot program to use a key which has no purpose in-game, such as PrintScreen, and any other settings you like.

Secondly, look online for poseboxes and download any with poses which you like. A posebox is a custom object which allows you to position sims in ways which the game's animations don't allow for.

If you want to, you can also use the in-game (BV or later) function to pose sims, though this has a more limited number of poses.

Test your screenshot program in-game before you spend a lot of time posing sims, especially if you run fullscreen or borderless. Some programs need windowed mode. Switch to windowed mode if necessary.

Close other programs your computer is running if you plan to teleport a lot of sims, in order to avoid crashes.

Load up a lot (residential is easiest) which you want to use as a backdrop for your photos. Use the teleporter object to teleport all sims in who you want to photograph. Keep the game paused, so their needs don't decay and they don't autonomously wander off.

Use moveobjects to place the sims into position where you would like them to be. Use the self-interaction "Pose..." or use the posebox to place them into preferred position. Use moveobjects and snaptogrid false if you like to position them more precisely. Some poseboxes have two-sided positions (like the hugs in this example).

Once happy with all sims' poses and positions, go into Live mode (paused!) or click the design tool in build/buy mode to get rid of the grid on the ground. Press tab to go into first-person view mode and use WASD, Q, E and the mouse to get a good angle. Use whichever key you assigned to the external screenshot program to take as many shots as you like. If you didn't get the pause mod, make sure to allow some space at the edges for cropping.

Come out of the tab camera mode and quickly check your screenshots to see if they worked and look good. Redo any shots you are unhappy with. Now quit to neighbourhood without saving, in order to not have to send everyone home. Quit the game fully if you like, then open up your screenshots in any editing program and crop them to your preferred size (the basic photo viewer on most OSs can crop). If you want to do further editing, you can also do this here.

Looking at all those boxes in the road in the first picture, I couldn't help wondering what they were. And then it began to dawn on me: might they be poseboxes? It never occurred to me before that poseboxes (which I've never used) might be actual boxes!?


I no longer use a screenshot program. Ever since I got Windows 10 (which came with my current computer -- a Dell gaming laptop) pressing the Print Screen button creates a screenshot file, which Windows saves to the OneDrive\Personal\PIctures\Screenshots folder. This means I no longer have any need for a third party screenshot program.

I'm a bit surprised that nobody else has mentioned this. I wonder if there's something unusual about my setup. Historically I was an Access database programmer, so, even though I'm not doing it professionally now, I have a paid-for subscription to Office 365 (or whatever it's called now) so I can continue to work in Access. This gives me a significant amount of space on OneDrive -- more than enough to keep all my pictures. (I had to stop my programs saving to OneDrive, since The Sims 2 trying to work on OneDrive nearly wrecked my game.) How do PrintScreen and Alt- PrintScreen work for other people with Windows 10 or 11? If it works the same for you as for me, I don't understand why you would need a separate screenshot program.

Can't start the game to test right now, but I'd say people still use 3rd party programs for taking screenshots mostly out of habit - it didn't work on older versions of Windows; why assume that a newer OS will make things better with such an old game? But that's a great find!

I've always used Print Screen. I thought everyone knew about it lol.

I also use printscreen, but I use Windows key + Print Screen to save them in the Screenshots folder. I was trying to find a way to take screenshots ingame, and I had no idea that that option existed. So I just begun using that and have never used any program to do so. It works fine for me.

Okay, that's something I didn't know. I go to all the trouble of Print Screening, then opening Irfanview and pasting, then saving.

I didn't want to use that method because of the copypaste. For some reason minimizing the game acts weird on mine, and I couldn't just close the game just for one screenshot. I'm glad I offered a solution. :D

Printscreen making a screenshot must be behaviour that you have to set up, I think. My screenshot routine dates from before Windows 10, anyway, and before that was a thing printscreen would only put the screenshot onto the clipboard, which means you have to minimise the game, open a graphics program, which can also be fairly RAM-hungry, paste the image and save it and then go back to the game - it's much less labour-intensive and risky to simply have something set up where pressing that key does save a screenshot. Being able to do it within Windows is useful. I am simply in the habit of using a third-party program But really, I only meant external to the game, as in, don't use the in-game camera, because it's much too low-resolution to be useful. So arguably, setting up the Windows screenshot tool to use printscreen as the shortcut is still within my advice!

As far as I can tell, on Windows 11 without me having changed any default setting, printscreen still just puts the screenshot on the clipboard. But I don't use OneDrive at all. If it is saving screenshots somewhere, I have no idea where they are.

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to...enshots-windows

I have the game in borderless windowed for just that reason.

Can confirm that Windows + Print Screen saves straight to the Screenshots folder in My Pictures.