Car Seat Headrest remakes a song in the nonsense video game language Simlish

So far, there is not a staggering body of music recorded in Simlish, the fictional gibberish language of numerous Sims games since 1996. In fact, Simlish has a long way to go before it even catches up with Esperanto in that department. But Will Toledo, lead singer and songwriter of the Seattle-based indie rock band Car Seat Headrest, is working to change that with a Simlish version of “Not What I Needed,” a track from the group’s recent Teens Of Denial album. This alternate language version of the song is included in The Sims 4: City Living, a title released on November 1. It’s nice to know that the dead-eyed pseudo-humans of the Sims universe will be finally able to enjoy a wider variety of music in their native language. The earliest songs recording in Simlish tended to be simple, familiar campfire ditties, though The Sims: Superstar, an expansion pack from 2003, did include several songs in the invented language.